Blue Screen Death (Games and video) HELP

[Fibre Optix]

I'll try to make this short.

I was gaming today for a few hours (TF2). The admin on the server said there was a new update and that the server was going to shut down. So I restarted the game. The game informed me that there were new drivers available for my video card. So I installed the new drivers and updated the game.

When I went back to play it, I got a sevre crash - the blue screen of death. After the computer restarted i tried another game (BioShock) and the same thing happened - blue screen of death. I thought it might have been the driver update, so I rolled it back but I still get the blue screen of death.

I checked my temps at idle it's at 30 C.

I then loaded a video and got the blue screen death again.

I built this machine last month it's been working flawlessly. All of a sudden this happens.
Help please, how can I determine the cause and fix it.

[EzyStvy]

The Stop Codes are like keycodes to the solution....

Introduction to Stop Errors

"Stop errors in a nutshell are errors that are serious enough to cause Windows to stop. They are similar to the blue screen errors that were present on Windows 9x, however there is no option to try and resume the session in a Windows NT Stop Error (Windows 2000 and all XP members included)."

Continued:

http://mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/bsod.php

Go here to search for the error message:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...&ln=EN-US&FR=0

[Fibre Optix]

the blue screen does not stay up long enough for me to read it. It flashes for half a second and restarts the computer

UPDATE: Team Fortress 2 launches now...and so did Portal. So I tried Bioshock and got a Blue Screen and a restart again. Pissed off now after the restart I tried TF2 and portal again, the blue screen flash and restart is back again. Weird but at least now I know it's not a software issue.

I doubt it's my power supply (it could be the 8800 gtx) but what do I look for to make sure

[shadowpr]

Get into system properties. choose the advanced tab on top, then select startup and recovery. Make sure that the box that says Automatically restart is unchecked.

Then you should be able to read the stop code.

[liambl]

The updated graphics card driver is likely to be the problem. Roll back to the last driver in device manager which you can get to from the System icon in Control Panel. On the driver tab of the card properties box, click rollback driver.

[Fibre Optix]

Originally Posted by liambl The updated graphics card driver is likely to be the problem. Roll back to the last driver in device manager which you can get to from the System icon in Control Panel. On the driver tab of the card properties box, click rollback driver.

Already tried that and it's the same story, blue screen and restart.

[liambl]

Originally Posted by Fibre Optix Already tried that

Woops I must've missed that part

[shadowpr]

Originally Posted by shadowpr Then you should be able to read the stop code.

Can you see the stop codes?

Have you solved the problem?

[The Village Idiot]

Might I add it's almost indefinitely a driver error at that. I decided to download some new drivers to keep up to date. With almost identically getting what happened to Fibre Optix. The GTX and GTS's use the same software. After around 1 - 2 hours of gaming I may either get a total computer crash with the screen becoming highly distorted and a repetition of the ambient noise. Or it will 'shut down' with or without about half a second of a blue screen displaying the error. However it goes away for too quick to read even 1 line.

My advice to you would be keep updating the drivers, I recently updated again to some newer ones and that made the problem much better. On the NVIDIA site they've released new BETA drivers to download, I'd try those and see if they sort out the problem.