3D corruption under 2K3R2

[die_angel]

Okay , this problem is a bit hard to explain, basically after rebooting everything work perfectly, i usually oscillate between 4 or 5 hardware accelerated applications in my regular use of my computer: SecondLife, VideoLan, Eve Online, 3dsMax,...

this problem is happening to me since a few weeks now, and i can't pinpoint what is causing it.

Basically everything run fine, and after some time , (1 hour, 2 maybe) as i start a new 3D app, the image show some sort of graphical corruption of several types:

-"badly tuned tv" looking noises on the screen (like lines and stuffs)

- flickering of the 3D window

- no display at all

- application hang

- display freeze

usually when they happend i run dxdiag to see if it spot anything, sometimes the test cubes have texture corruption., and most of the time the 3D tests cannot initialise

and return (D3DERR NOT_AVAILABLE)

at this time the only way i found to fix the problem is to reboot.

Needless to say i use the very latest drivers and the system is freshly reinstalled.

i just ran my 4 memory sticks (one by one) trough memtest86, so aparently it isn't the ram, all the sticks are working and in perfect state.

Any idea what can be wrong?

system specs:

OS: Windows 2003 server R2

CPU: Athlon X2 4200+

RAM: 4x1Gb ddr (pc3200 if i remember)

MOBO: Asus A8N32SLI deluxe

Graphic card: Geforce 7900GTX 512Mb

Dual screen

40Gb IDE Hard disk

320Gb SATA Har disk

Edited January 12, 2007 by die_angel

[RJARRRPCGP]

Okay , this problem is a bit hard to explain, basically after rebooting everything work perfectly, i usually oscillate between 4 or 5 hardware accelerated applications in my regular use of my computer: SecondLife, VideoLan, Eve Online, 3dsMax,...

this problem is happening to me since a few weeks now, and i can't pinpoint what is causing it.

Basically everything run fine, and after some time , (1 hour, 2 maybe) as i start a new 3D app, the image show some sort of graphical corruption of several types:

-"badly tuned tv" looking noises on the screen (like lines and stuffs)

- flickering of the 3D window

- no display at all

- application hang

- display freeze

usually when they happend i run dxdiag to see if it spot anything, sometimes the test cubes have texture corruption., and most of the time the 3D tests cannot initialise

and return (D3DERR NOT_AVAILABLE)

at this time the only way i found to fix the problem is to reboot.

Needless to say i use the very latest drivers and the system is freshly reinstalled.

i just ran my 4 memory sticks (one by one) trough memtest86, so aparently it isn't the ram, all the sticks are working and in perfect state.

Any idea what can be wrong?

system specs:

OS: Windows 2003 server R2

CPU: Athlon X2 4200+

RAM: 4x1Gb ddr (pc3200 if i remember)

MOBO: Asus A8N32SLI deluxe

Graphic card: Geforce 7900GTX 512Mb

Dual screen

40Gb IDE Hard disk

320Gb SATA Har disk

This for the majority is a video driver issue.

But, I had similar problems when my GeForce 4 Ti 4200 was overclocked too much, 3D Mark 2001 SE would pause and have video corruption, then get an error message from 3D Mark 2001 SE saying that a 3D init failure occurred.

Edited January 12, 2007 by RJARRRPCGP

[die_angel]

well my system is not overclocked, i tried with the nvidia drivers 84.20, 93.71 , 96.85

and the problem is persisting, i will check the dust but i don't think its heat related

---edit---

I ran a 3dmark 06 test, it performed well till the last terst where it made an error, restarting the test made it go trough it.

i tried to run eve online right after, the login screen had white flickering and logging in the game made my displays freeze.

I don't understand where this problem is, it appeared about 2/3 weeks ago and even a fresh format do not solve it.

so i see 2 solutions:

A. i toasted some piece of hardware.

B. i am installing a driver version for any part of the hardware that cause a problem.

C. something else i can't grasp.

Edited January 12, 2007 by die_angel

[cluberti]

If you've reinstalled the OS and tried different driver versions, I'd say the problem almost has to be the hardware flaking out. Video artifacts of this magnitude and of this type almost always spell a video chip dying, and since your RAM passed the memtest, I'd say it's even more likely the video card (or even the PCI or AGP slot it's in) has issues.

[die_angel]

i just closed an app before it crash and ran the dxdiag tests, the classic cube was spinning but portions of it's texture where corrupted.

i wish i could find precisely what hardware element is failing.

Any clue what possible element it could be? or how i could test it.

[snowden]

For what it's worth, I suggest you check out dxdiag from Start->Run (type dxdiag in here). Make sure you have enabled 3D acceleration! I actually forgot this in a recent install of windows, when i had installed the video drivers i couldn't believe i had overlooked something so simple!

[die_angel]

today i got a blue screen of death "IRQ_LESS_OR_NOT_EQUAL"

it could be linked?

[cluberti]

today i got a blue screen of death "IRQ_LESS_OR_NOT_EQUAL"

it could be linked?

It depends on what driver caused it, but yes, if it was the video driver, it would possibly be related.