Video Problem

[Smooth*{MEOW}*]

Any ideas on what could cause this guys?  Happens 0-2 times a day typically during gaming.  Requires a hard reboot.  Nothing striking in the event viewer.  Temps are fine.  I've reseated the card and checked connections.  It looks like a driver issue to me as this only started a few weeks ago.  I've had this card since October last year without problems.  I'm going to post at EVGA as well.

[Smooth*{MEOW}*]

My EVGA post:

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100596316&mpage=1&key=&#100596316

[THEKATZ*{MEOW}*]

Smooth, does that card take the dual plug?  I know most GX2xx nees to utilze both of those 12v plugs.

[Smooth*{MEOW}*]

They're both in.

[NighEve*{MEOW}*]

 No clue but soem experience... What i had was similar..but a different pattern on a Radion 9800. The card was "bad".  At first thought it was a power problem. i went through the driver thing but it dint help.  just my 2 cents.

[Smooth*{MEOW}*]

Posted on Nvidia as well, link to my post there:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=94469

[NighEve*{MEOW}*]

Yep, was afraid of that.  Looks like a Bad card. 

[Smooth*{MEOW}*]

I'm not convinced it is yet.

[THEKATZ*{MEOW}*]

Smooth, your running Vista correct?  If so, try using just the default windows video driver.  Vista has a nice generic driver that will run most any graphics cards.  This may help identify driver vs bad card?  it may be worth a shot.  Good thing is EVGA may have a lifetime warranty on that if that is the case.

[Smooth*{MEOW}*]

Vista 64.  I really don't think this card is defective.

[NighEve*{MEOW}*]

Vista 64.  I really don't think this card is defective.

I hope not, also. . .

[Kitty*{MEOW}*]

I hade an old 6800 do the same thing smooth after calling tech support and sending them a picture of my screen they RMA"ed it. Said the card was bad.

[THEKATZ*{MEOW}*]

Boy, I see what you mean Smooth.  Looking this issue up is all over the place on bad board to bad driver and heat issue.  I just started to look into this and have yet to find a consensus either way. 

Looking more now


There is a hit on your board here - close to last post
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?p=5813599

[THEKATZ*{MEOW}*]

This is not particular with EVGA, though EVGA pops up a lot in Google for this issue only because it is a favored card. 
What I am seeing here is there is no definite answer.  So, what we need to do here is figure out what others are experiencing and relate that to your issue which is somewhat common here.

Like you state, if this is a bad card you should have experienced this long before BUT, cards do go bad - lets set that aside.

Starting with the PSU - I saw in several XFX and EVGA forums where this screen appears and most lean to a low power rail or not enough power that causes the screen to pink out or go purple and even some other psychedelic colors but mostly pink. I see where some of these GTX cards are requiring 35A per rail? OMG that can't be right, you would be lucky to get 26A on a mainstream PSU sold today. So try looking at the PSU, like removing any powered drives, USB devices just to see if this may be the culprit. Anything that can lower the draw for testing. I would lean to a dying PSU before a GPU board like that.

The next is Over Clocking.  You say this GPU is vanilla but what about the rest of you machine?  Clocking the CPU to a higher tic rate will boost other items and draw power accordingly. Memory timing and CPU all effect each other - This is just a thought and a weak one at that but one I had to state.

Cooling - Now here is one that everyone has the answer to - well, they think they do. 
No matter how many fans you have in a computer case and devices, the biggest problem is communicating that air to the our side.  So moving air through the case sounds easy but can cause other issues (My experience) where you rob Peter to Pay Paul with out knowing.
The senario is this : You have front and rear fan, one on the side and possibly one on top which is not uncommon.  You also have several internals that take care of business. 
Now take the GTX.  Nice card and I want one badly. It has it's own fan. Does it move the air through it as it should? It is possible that the other fans are creating a negative or the air that should move through that card out the back is not happening which is static.
Let me rephrase this, if the side, front and rear fans are moving air as they should, is it possible they are leaving the GPU fan starving or in a static air flow state?
Don't laugh.  I witnessed this with a new machine a friend built.  He had one too many fans that would not allow the CPU to cool.  This caused a static air flow at the CPU.


As a last ditch resort, make sure the two power connections to that graphics card are not sharing the same rail.  Trade power connections with a HD or DVD player as a test. 

[Smooth*{MEOW}*]

It's not the PSU.  The amp req's on cards are listed as total amps TK.  My Corsair TX750W has a single 60A +12v rail.  The most solid voltages I've seen on a PSU, all within a percent as reported in the BIOS.  Best PSU I've owned and I'd highly recommend Corsair.  As far as OC, I run an E8500 at 3.8Ghz (400x9.5) @ 1.265v vcore under load.  Stock on that is 3.16Ghz (333x9.5) @ 1.18v.  I was getting this before I oc'ed the cpu.  Not a heat issue either.  Load core temps on the cpu are typically 54/54C with Intel listing max as 72.4C for my chip.  On the gpu, usually 45C idle w/ downclocking, 59C load in Guild Wars, 63C load in CoD4.  Well within the safe zone on both of those.