New graphics card advice required
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:03 pm
Hi All,
As you may/may not have noticed I've been offline for a while now below is the reason:
I took part in the BF3 beta & quite enjoyed it (even with it crashing on me 60% of the time I tried it!). As a fix to this I bought myself another 8800GTS 512MB graphics card & an SLI bridge. As well as this I needed to get another PSU too. They worked great for a while until only 1 of the cards was being recognized. I thought it may have been the PSU so I got it replaced but the same thing was happening. I got a program that analyses temperatures & it looks like both of them were running at 70 degrees plus for quite a while. I then decided to swap them over to see if this made a difference - this is where things started to go wrong...... I might have touched the bottom of 1 of the cards with a power cable now when I try using it all I get is a series of pink squares then a crash. Whilst the other one allows me to use Win 7 for about 2 mins, up pops the box saying a driver has failed but has been fixed, then appox 30 seconds I get a BSOD which mentions nviddmkm.sys. Did a bit of googling tried some of the 'fixes' none worked. Tried doing a complete re-install of Win 7 - still get the same error. It works in same mode but that's not a lot of use!
so
A) has anyone ANY ideas? or
B) any suggestions for a new card round about the 130-150 quid mark? I started a new job in November but still haven't bought myself anything nice - have just paid off various debts. I'm gonna need a new card pretty soon as I'm getting bored not playing any shooty shooty games &the new version of counterstike is rumored to be coming out soon!!
Cheers
Andy
As you may/may not have noticed I've been offline for a while now below is the reason:
I took part in the BF3 beta & quite enjoyed it (even with it crashing on me 60% of the time I tried it!). As a fix to this I bought myself another 8800GTS 512MB graphics card & an SLI bridge. As well as this I needed to get another PSU too. They worked great for a while until only 1 of the cards was being recognized. I thought it may have been the PSU so I got it replaced but the same thing was happening. I got a program that analyses temperatures & it looks like both of them were running at 70 degrees plus for quite a while. I then decided to swap them over to see if this made a difference - this is where things started to go wrong...... I might have touched the bottom of 1 of the cards with a power cable now when I try using it all I get is a series of pink squares then a crash. Whilst the other one allows me to use Win 7 for about 2 mins, up pops the box saying a driver has failed but has been fixed, then appox 30 seconds I get a BSOD which mentions nviddmkm.sys. Did a bit of googling tried some of the 'fixes' none worked. Tried doing a complete re-install of Win 7 - still get the same error. It works in same mode but that's not a lot of use!
so
A) has anyone ANY ideas? or
B) any suggestions for a new card round about the 130-150 quid mark? I started a new job in November but still haven't bought myself anything nice - have just paid off various debts. I'm gonna need a new card pretty soon as I'm getting bored not playing any shooty shooty games &the new version of counterstike is rumored to be coming out soon!!
Cheers
Andy