Infinite loop BSOD

[liambl]

Been folding on my 9600GT for about 2 days now. A few mins ago, I got a BSOD while running F@H about nv4_disp.dll and it geting stuck in an infinite loop. I restarted and got the BSOD again. I have removed F@H from the startup so I can actually do something. Should I attempt to take the card back to the store for a replacement? I had temp montoring open the whole folding time and GPU never exceeded 59C. I am too nervous to try playing a game or anything else GPU intensive. Do you guys think this is enough evidence to suggest that it is the video card (I have had sparse problems with the video card before).

[liambl]

*Correction: Title was supposed to be Infinite loop BSOD.

It seems this is only caused by F@H, played Assassins Creed for a good 40 mins and no problems what so ever. I am reluctant to try F@H again as BSODs tend to scare me, but tomorrow I will play some more games and maybe try F@H again. I guess this could be a bug with F@H, as it interfaces directly to the CUDA, any problems with F@H are likely to cause driver BSODs.

[shadowpr]

Have you updated to the latest video drivers?

If you do, and try to reinstall again, let us know what happens.

Is this client a beta like the smp is?

[liambl]

Yeah the client is a beta. Running latest drivers. I will see if F@H still BSODs the machin after I have finished my work.

[Panama Red]

Originally Posted by liambl *Correction: Title was supposed to be Infinite loop BSOD.

Title corrected.

[shadowpr]

It might just be a software problem. If it's a new beta, then you can't expect it to be perfect.

Then again, the smp client has been a beta for a long time, so who knows.

[liambl]

After a few days of 24 hour folding I got another BSOD, when I started Frets on Fire while it was folding. Upon restart, it locked up just after the Windows loading screen disappeared. So I though the graphics card had come loose again and set about reseating it (this has fixed the BSOD problem 2 times before). I also thought I would reseat the RAM and CPU as well for good measure. After completing this, the PC would not even post, just fans. I looked around the case for problems for ten minutes before noticing the problem, one of the RAM modules was out at one end (its hidden under the CPU heatsink). So after pushing that down PC seemed to be working fine, but now I don't think I will try F@H until I find out whats doing this. I think it may be the card coming loose, I keep bumping the case quite hard because it takes up so much room under my table and theres no where else for it to go. I will try to not bump it as much and see if I get any problems without games or F@H over the next few days I will try a few games and see if its stable.

EDIT. I just realsed this, but I always write so much, you guys don't mind do you? I try to write as little as possible but it always ends up a short story

[liambl]

Hmmm, it seems that its a known bug with the beta GPU2 client and they are working on it. It works fine until I try anything slightly intensive, like running FOF or having too many windows open. I also updated to the beta CUDA 2.0 driver and PPD went up from 2700 to 3400 (1500it/s to 1800it/s).