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GEForce 8800 Ultra Problems
I have a GEForce 8800 Ultra PCIe card installed under Windows XP on a Dell
Precision 390 workstation with a quad core processor. Whenever I attempt to use Microsoft Flight Simulator, soon after starting the game I noticed that tile areas of the ground surface start to blink and appear in reverse video. This problem worsens, and within minutes the game freezes. It appears to be some kind of massive video corruption. The computer locks, and at some point I get a blue screen of death. NVidia driver version under Windows Device Manager shows as 6.14.12.8558. The only clue on reboot about the error is a System eventviewer message: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000ea (0x87eb1da0, 0x89362378, 0xb84efcbc, 0x00000001). A ywas saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini121512-01.dmp. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this problem? Would it be bad hardware or just an unstable driver release? Is there a preferred version of the nVidia driver for this card? -- W |
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GEForce 8800 Ultra Problems
W wrote:
I have a GEForce 8800 Ultra PCIe card installed under Windows XP on a Dell Precision 390 workstation with a quad core processor. Whenever I attempt to use Microsoft Flight Simulator, soon after starting the game I noticed that tile areas of the ground surface start to blink and appear in reverse video. This problem worsens, and within minutes the game freezes. It appears to be some kind of massive video corruption. The computer locks, and at some point I get a blue screen of death. NVidia driver version under Windows Device Manager shows as 6.14.12.8558. The only clue on reboot about the error is a System eventviewer message: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000ea (0x87eb1da0, 0x89362378, 0xb84efcbc, 0x00000001). A ywas saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini121512-01.dmp. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this problem? Would it be bad hardware or just an unstable driver release? Is there a preferred version of the nVidia driver for this card? I don't have an answer for you, but I can offer a couple hints. http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm "0x100000EA: THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER_M 0x000000EA: THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER A device driver problem has caused the system to pause indefinitely (hang). Typically, this is caused by a display driver waiting for the video hardware to enter an idle state. This might indicate a hardware problem with the video adapter, or a faulty video driver. " http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293078 ******* NVidia had an era, where the GPU chips they were selling, had a thermal coefficient of expansion issue. Now, one solution for this, is underfill, a curable compound that they place in the same area as the BGA solder joints, and it has something to do with taking stress off the whole mess. Some of the cards fail after a while, because a solder joint cracks. This led to the "home solution" of baking the card. Whereas in a lab environment, you'd get a hot air rework station (heats a large chip from top and bottom, using a custom fitted hood to limit where the heat goes). Home users just heat the whole damn card. When cards are double-sided, and have components on both sides, this can lead to stuff falling off. Never the less, there are reports out there, that re-baking a card can correct a connection problem. What I don't know, is how long such a repair lasts. Whether the repair is permanent or not. I would expect the same stresses are still present, and the GPU "moves" with respect to the PCB, attempting to tear the solder joints again. https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...idoingitrite-/ There are patent applications on the web, that address the need to use underfill on BGAs with more than 1000 balls. And a change from one of those materials, to another, can increase the number of balls that can safely be used on a hot chip, to decent level (extending lifetime by many years). An inevitable question you'd have is "how do I know my card has this problem, a broken solder joint ?". Well, your symptoms would likely be worse, and not restricted to a problem showing up in one game. There'd be problems all over the place. Maybe a black screen at startup. Perhaps you'd play a Flash video, and see issues. Or depending on the OS, maybe you'd use hardware-driven features of Aero, and see anomalies. If only the single game has issues, then driver or game patch are just as likely to fix it (no baking required). For my own purposes, I use 3DMark benchmarks, as a separate test. You can download some of those, and they'll test fewer features of DirectX than perhaps a recent game would. I might use these, to hint at whether I thought it was driver or hardware. If all of these have artifacts, I'd be prepping my EasyBake oven :-) Or doing more focused hardware diagnostics. There are also things like Furmark, for doing power-limited testing, but the drivers recognize some of those apps, and prevent them from pounding on the card to 100% level. (40MB, pretty old, 3Dmark 2001 SE (Build 330)) http://www.majorgeeks.com/3Dmark_d99.html (178 MB, 3DMark03 3.60 1901) http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1712 (209MB, a bit newer, 3DMark05 1.3.0 1901) http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4376.html I don't know what value testing like the following has, but it's another test case you can run. When apps like this come out, the driver designers have to respond and add code to prevent the power used, from exceeding safe levels. I don't know exactly how they do that. The core power regulator on the video card, would have overcurrent protection, but the GPU might be pretty warm before that kicks in. http://www.geeks3d.com/20100328/gefo...lugs-required/ Paul |
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