Graphic card crashing while playing and watching videos at the same time.

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Hello all,


recently (like, some months ago) my graphic card started to crash if I watched videos while playing games.
Basically, the screen freezes and red pixes appear everywhere; sometimes it's worst, actually creating a blue screen of death and restaring the computer.

I read around and I discovered that it's a problem with my motherboard, however, I have yet to understand how to fix it. Does someone know more about this, maybe someone who can provide a cheap solution that does not involve formatting the computer/buying new parts?

Love,

Altairp.
 
What kind of card do you have? I used to have the same problem.
 
I actually have the exact same problem, it sounds like. AMD Radeon HD 6570 1GB here

It used to be a lot worse than it is right now; the severity seems to fluctuate. Some days it'll crash a lot and other days I'll go perfectly fine without so much as freezing.

Anyways, what I found that helped to a degree and actually let me watch YouTube videos without freezing was doing something with TdrDelay in my registry. Basically it gives your GPU some more time to produce the image before freezing up and timing out.
Here's some instructions on how to do it. Hopefully this helps :)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/asiasupp...ver-stopped-responding-and-has-recovered.aspx
 
was it required for you to be the first to post something retarded combine considering everyone else is being serious


post your motherboard and your graphics cards i've had a problem where bad pixellation and artifacts were showing up after a certain amount of time playing games and that was from the vid card, worked fine after i had it replaced
 
Definitely sounds like a problem with your graphics card. Motherboard wouldn't do that unless the PCI port is fucked, in which case I think the problems would be a lot more severe than what you're describing.

Try updating your drivers. If you've done this already, try rolling them back to a previous version if it started appearing after a recent update.
Make sure the airflow in and out of your case (especially around your graphics card) is good and not obstructed by anything to make sure it's not overheating issues. If the airflow is bad or the card is getting extremely hot, set up fans or something to improve the temperature.

If the delay fix and none of the above work then it's probably just a basic hardware malfunction. Nothing you can do then but replace.

Take all this with a pinch of salt though, I could be completely wrong.
 
Motherboard should be, huh, Aspire X3995.

Graphic card is AMD Radeon HD 5570.
 
Older graphics cards tend to have problems with overheating and the fans dying due to the fans being too weak. My father has the same exact problems as you are having and I would just recomend a new graphics card or a hardware fan.
 
Duke Dick said:
I actually have the exact same problem, it sounds like. AMD Radeon HD 6570 1GB here

It used to be a lot worse than it is right now; the severity seems to fluctuate. Some days it'll crash a lot and other days I'll go perfectly fine without so much as freezing.

Anyways, what I found that helped to a degree and actually let me watch YouTube videos without freezing was doing something with TdrDelay in my registry. Basically it gives your GPU some more time to produce the image before freezing up and timing out.
Here's some instructions on how to do it. Hopefully this helps :)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/asiasupp...ver-stopped-responding-and-has-recovered.aspx

Done this, maybe I didn't it right but it doesn't work.


ripthehorizon said:
Definitely sounds like a problem with your graphics card. Motherboard wouldn't do that unless the PCI port is fucked, in which case I think the problems would be a lot more severe than what you're describing.

Try updating your drivers. If you've done this already, try rolling them back to a previous version if it started appearing after a recent update.
Make sure the airflow in and out of your case (especially around your graphics card) is good and not obstructed by anything to make sure it's not overheating issues. If the airflow is bad or the card is getting extremely hot, set up fans or something to improve the temperature.

If the delay fix and none of the above work then it's probably just a basic hardware malfunction. Nothing you can do then but replace.

Take all this with a pinch of salt though, I could be completely wrong.


Already tried to fiddle with the drivers, didn't work.
 
Get the laptop to a service store to clean the dust off and replace the thermal paste. Crashes usually indicate one of two things:
1.Bad driver.
2.Overheating.

Yes, you are on the most common overheating issue. If you get it leaned and have the paste replaced and still experience the same issue, you're in for a very bad and expensive procedure which involves resoldening your GPU.
 
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