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boysetsfire

Posts: 1852
Location: Antwerp, belgium

Posted: Thu, 3rd Sep 2009 20:12 Post subject: annoying driver problem	Quick Quote Quote

hi guys i recently built a comp for a friend of mine and he keeps getting this error when playing a game mostly after an houre of play, sometimes faster weird thing is when i first tested it with assassins creed it didn't have this problem Specs are: asus P5Q SE2 nvidia GTX 270 intel Q9550 i tried cleaning and reinstalling latest drivers could this maybe be PSU related? any help would be appreciated

VGAdeadcafe

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Posted: Thu, 3rd Sep 2009 20:52 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

This problem is usually hardware-related, most probably the gfx card is overheating, check the temps !

boysetsfire

Posts: 1852
Location: Antwerp, belgium

Posted: Fri, 4th Sep 2009 02:22 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

thing is the card needs two black connectors from the PSU, but his PSU doesn't have those. so i took two splitters and connected it to 4 regular ones... could it be that the GPU is not getting enough power?

Leftos

Posts: 1159
Location: Patras, Greece

Posted: Sat, 5th Sep 2009 01:37 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

It could be. Graphics cards like the GTX270 need a serious amout of amps from the 12V rails, and maybe the combined power of the four regular connectors taking power from some other rail of the PSU is just not enough juice for games. [ i5 2500K (@4.2GHz) / GIGABYTE Z77MX-D3H / 8GB Corsair XMS / GIGABYTE GTX460 1GB OC / 640+750 GB WD Caviar Black ]

moosenoodles

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Posted: Sat, 5th Sep 2009 02:12 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

If your drawing off rails that are not intended for the output for gfx cards, then you are/will be consuming power dedicated to the mainboard and other things lol, that will no doubt shut down the culprit hardware that is causing the drain.. Get it put on the correct plugs/rails, for what it needs.. If its a good psu there should be info pertaining to how or where you can connect it to on spare rails.. That is if the psu has that option.. Otherwise dedicated psu areas to plugin your card must be used, its there for a reason. p.s I wouldnt have you build me a house of cards lol http://www.speedtest.net/result/4302967033.png

boysetsfire

Posts: 1852
Location: Antwerp, belgium

Posted: Sat, 5th Sep 2009 15:52 Post subject:

moosenoodles wrote:

p.s I wouldnt have you build me a house of cards lol Very Happy

the guy at the store said it would be allright this way :/

ah well new psu it is then

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