KODE
02-10-2008, 12:20 PM
Hi Fellas,
Yesterday I bought me a second EVGA 8800 GTX to bring up SLI. I will explain exactly what I did:
I was happy as a clown with my new toy and simply added the second card. Then I removed the VGA drivers (169.09b), reboot and ran a driver cleaner from guru3D. Reboot again and finally installed the latest 169.21 from NVIDIA.
So I started to play STALKER, and after maybe 30-45min when I exited the game I was greeted with this nv4_disp.dll BSOD, It was exatcly the time I clicked on the exit button at the game. I was able to recreate the BSOD just one more time and exactly the same way.
I decided to test stability or heat issues and opened 3 CAD programs at the same time (Orbiting heavy 3D assemblies) and ran 3DMark06 with ALL the programs looping with max quality settings the whole night. I woke up today and everything was running ok.
So my main concern is that maybe I got a "defective" card, (overheating, bad ram). So guys what do you think happened to generate that BSOD? Drivers? PSU? GPU overheating*?
*My case is open 24/7 and I added an extra 120mm fan for both VGAs, so I don't think it's an overheating problem.
P.S Games are running fine, almost double FPS, no glitches, FAST as hell, I'm just bugged with that 2 BSODs :( .
thanks in advance,
KODE.
Yesterday I bought me a second EVGA 8800 GTX to bring up SLI. I will explain exactly what I did:
I was happy as a clown with my new toy and simply added the second card. Then I removed the VGA drivers (169.09b), reboot and ran a driver cleaner from guru3D. Reboot again and finally installed the latest 169.21 from NVIDIA.
So I started to play STALKER, and after maybe 30-45min when I exited the game I was greeted with this nv4_disp.dll BSOD, It was exatcly the time I clicked on the exit button at the game. I was able to recreate the BSOD just one more time and exactly the same way.
I decided to test stability or heat issues and opened 3 CAD programs at the same time (Orbiting heavy 3D assemblies) and ran 3DMark06 with ALL the programs looping with max quality settings the whole night. I woke up today and everything was running ok.
So my main concern is that maybe I got a "defective" card, (overheating, bad ram). So guys what do you think happened to generate that BSOD? Drivers? PSU? GPU overheating*?
*My case is open 24/7 and I added an extra 120mm fan for both VGAs, so I don't think it's an overheating problem.
P.S Games are running fine, almost double FPS, no glitches, FAST as hell, I'm just bugged with that 2 BSODs :( .
thanks in advance,
KODE.