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Journal #6876

Habboi • 13 years ago2010-11-16 12:40:27 UTC • 7 comments

So new development. Basically one night I wanted to listen to some music through my headphones like I usually do when I noticed sound was only coming out of one headphone.

So I contact Dell and also mention the freezing problem I used to get is still here. I honestly can't find a pattern to the freezing but the PC could be fine a week and the next it could freeze once a day.

Anyway as I said, I contacted Dell who told me to run the usual tests and it found nothing. Next thing I know I get an email today from them telling me they're now sending a new harddrive and a techy to install it. I've asked if it'll have windows 7 because quite honestly I believe Vista is a piece of shit and caused most of my problems.

So there ya go. Either Dell sent me a shoddy PC 3 years ago and it has slowly been dying or they're just generous.

Either way that's a new graphics card, motherboard and now a harddrive. What next? ram? Cause I get a lot of memory errors lul.

Journal #6860

Habboi • 13 years ago2010-11-02 09:01:40 UTC • 6 comments

A week later and my PC is fix0red.

Nice chap came and Dell basically gave him a new motherboard and graphics card to install. All seems well for now but I have to go through that painful process of removing the free shit, mcafee and updating to SP2.

I originally had a Nvidia GTX 8800 but they gave me a GTX 285 as a replacement.

So I bought a Dell 710 and it has now been upgraded to a 720. Woo XD

Journal #6849

Habboi • 13 years ago2010-10-25 08:13:43 UTC • 7 comments

Hey

Dell techy is coming tomorrow and i am 100% certain my 8800 gtx is nuked.

Currently using PS3 to surf but hopefully i will get a better gfx card.

P.S. i opened it up and to my surprise there wasn't much dust.

Journal #6838

Habboi • 13 years ago2010-10-22 15:50:42 UTC • 7 comments

I need your urgent help.

Today I got Fallout Vegas and my PC locked up and froze. I thought here we go.

So short version is that my PC now locks up whenever I play a game. What happens is I'll load TF2 and as soon as I join a team the screen flickers, it freezes and all these red dots or lines appear all over the screen and I am forced to reset.

Before all this, the Nvidia display driver kept crashing so I wiped it clean, deleted all folders, all registry entries and used CCleaner to nuke it. Then installed the latest driver.

The display driver crashing stopped but the game freezing is still there. SO I ran some tests.

The first was memtest which passed.
Then I ran a complete system test where it just checks everything and that passed too.

So this leads me to think of two things at this moment in time.

1. Somehow the display driver is still b0rked.
2. Something wrong with my Nvidia 8800 GTX card.

Now I must stress I can't open my PC or I break the warranty on it so I can't check to see if it's hot. I'm thinking of getting a temperature testing program but not sure what a good one is yet. I must also point out there's a lot of dust covering the two fans at the front of my PC. However they seem to work fine because one of the tests I did turned them from low to high and off and on and all sounded fine.

Honestly it's almost like winter over here and the fans sounds normal as always.

I'm no expert but there's a fan on the graphics card right? I can't see it but is it possible the fan is clogged or not working therefore the GFX is getting hot? If it was getting hot wouldn't the other fans all act up?

This is a Dell PC by the way and I'm gonna contact them to come and fix it if I find no answers. Any tips before I do?

Oh here's a dump from DxDiag:

"------------------
System Information

Time of this report: 10/22/2010, 16:54:50

Machine name: DELL-PC-HABBOI

Operating System: Windows Vista? Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.100608-0458)

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.

System Model: Dell XPS710
        BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 1.4.1
   Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU           @ 2.66GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
      Memory: 3068MB RAM
   Page File: 1156MB used, 5189MB available
 Windows Dir: C:\Windows

DirectX Version: DirectX 11

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

DxDiag Version: 7.00.6002.18107 32bit Unicode

DxDiag Notes

Display Tab 1: No problems found.
  Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
  Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
    Input Tab: No problems found.

DirectX Debug Levels

Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)

Display Devices

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
   Chip type: GeForce 8800 GTX
    DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
  Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0191&SUBSYS_039C10DE&REV_A2

Display Memory: 2018 MB
Dedicated Memory: 741 MB

Shared Memory: 1277 MB
 Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
      Monitor: Dell ST2410(Analog)
  Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll,nvwgf2um.dll

Driver Version: 8.17.0012.6089 (English)

DDI Version: 10

BGRA Supported: Yes
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 10/8/2010 09:38:00, 10021992 bytes

WHQL Logo'd: Yes

WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-42D1-11CF-A764-90231CC2C535}

Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x0191
SubSys ID: 0x039C10DE

Revision ID: 0x00A2
Revision ID: 0x00A2
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DDraw Status: Enabled
  D3D Status: Enabled
  AGP Status: Enabled

Sound Devices

Description: Speakers / Headphones (SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC)

Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes

Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_7618&SUBSYS_10280207&REV_1002

Manufacturer ID: 1
     Product ID: 100
           Type: WDM
    Driver Name: stwrt.sys
 Driver Version: 6.10.5343.0001 (English)

Driver Attributes: Final Retail
      WHQL Logo'd: Yes
    Date and Size: 2/8/2007 06:16:26, 647680 bytes
      Other Files:
  Driver Provider: SigmaTel
   HW Accel Level: Basic
        Cap Flags: 0xF1F

Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000

Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0

HW Memory: 0

Voice Management: No

EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

Description: Digital Output Device (S/PDIF) (SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC)

Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No

Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_7618&SUBSYS_10280207&REV_1002

Manufacturer ID: 1
     Product ID: 100
           Type: WDM
    Driver Name: stwrt.sys
 Driver Version: 6.10.5343.0001 (English)

Driver Attributes: Final Retail
      WHQL Logo'd: Yes
    Date and Size: 2/8/2007 06:16:26, 647680 bytes
      Other Files:
  Driver Provider: SigmaTel
   HW Accel Level: Basic
        Cap Flags: 0xF1F

Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000

Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0

HW Memory: 0

Voice Management: No

EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

Sound Capture Devices

Description: Microphone (SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC)

Default Sound Capture: Yes
Default Voice Capture: Yes

Driver Name: stwrt.sys

Driver Version: 6.10.5343.0001 (English)

Driver Attributes: Final Retail
    Date and Size: 2/8/2007 06:16:26, 647680 bytes
        Cap Flags: 0x1
     Format Flags: 0xFFFFF

Description: Rear Mic (SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC)

Default Sound Capture: No
Default Voice Capture: No

Driver Name: stwrt.sys

Driver Version: 6.10.5343.0001 (English)

Driver Attributes: Final Retail
    Date and Size: 2/8/2007 06:16:26, 647680 bytes
        Cap Flags: 0x1
     Format Flags: 0xFFFFF

Description: Line In (SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC)

Default Sound Capture: No
Default Voice Capture: No

Driver Name: stwrt.sys

Driver Version: 6.10.5343.0001 (English)

Driver Attributes: Final Retail
    Date and Size: 2/8/2007 06:16:26, 647680 bytes
        Cap Flags: 0x1
     Format Flags: 0xFFFFF

DirectInput Devices

Device Name: Mouse
   Attached: 1

Controller ID: n/a

Vendor/Product ID: n/a

FF Driver: n/a

Device Name: Keyboard
   Attached: 1

Controller ID: n/a

Vendor/Product ID: n/a

FF Driver: n/a

Device Name: USB Receiver
   Attached: 1

Controller ID: 0x0