Recent content by Thomas Coe

I just disabled Aero and adjusted my power settings in Windows 7 to disable power saving for PCIe, and I made it though one of the long test chambers in Portal without it freezing up! But then it started freezing up much more often again once it first froze up after I started playing... It's...

That link is for the P43DE3. I have the P43DE. The BIOS version I'm running now is 1.70, and it was last updated on 05/27/2010. I changed that URL to this one to match my motherboard's model, and the site says the latest version is 1.60, released on 09/08/2009: ASRock > Products > Motherboard >...

That may have helped a little. It seems to be freezing up less often now, but it still does it once a minute or so in Portal. If it is the RAM, I can swap it out for an old 256 MB module I have to test it, although I'm not sure what Windows 7 would do with only 256 MB...

The RAM I have is Kingston KVR667D2N5/2G. I cannot seem to find the default timings for it anywhere. I know it is 2GB DDR2 667. This is the spec sheet for it from the Kingston website: http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KVR667D2N5_2G.pdf The timings that were auto-set by the motherboard for it...

TorrentG: I took the video card out, then put it back in, hardly any dust has collected anywhere in the system, I just built it a week ago, and most of the parts I used were brand new, including the Graphics Card. I know it's not overheating, when I've used temperature monitoring while it...

I just reformatted the Hard Drive and reinstalled Windows 7. After installing all I did was install Portal and run it, and the graphics driver would still crash during the game. The only difference is this time I don't get the notification saying "Display driver NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode...

I did still have some motherboard utilities still installed. I got rid of them, rebooted, and the games still crash. I've noticed they crash less often with low graphics settings, but they will still always eventually crash. Could the TDR timeout errors be caused by a slow CPU or slow RAM, or...

Okay, I followed everything you suggested and the driver still crashes. The only 2 things I didn't do was upgrade the Sierra Wireless adapter driver or the motherboards BIOS, there weren't upgrades for either of those. After installing MSE like you suggested and then doing a virus scan, I...

Here's the file you requested. Thank you again for the help!

I just kept my temperature monitoring up while I was playing portal in a window just to be absolutely sure the GPU wasn't overheating, and the temperature was at 48C when the driver crashed again. Is there any other possibility this is a hardware problem? I want to rule that out first, while...

Okay, I just reupgraded the driver to the most recent version from NVIDIA and then tried to find the crash dump, but I could not locate that directory. There is no folder called Minidump in the Windows directory on my hard drive. I tried to recreate the bug on my computer, and after playing...

I recently built a new computer with a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT graphics card and installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on it. I formatted the hard drive and did a clean install of everything. I am not overclocking any of the components, and I have checked the GPU temps and ran stress tests, and...