Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

[therevolution01]

Somebody please help I just installed (yesterday)a PNY Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS and now BF2 crashes, after I log in, or sometimes it won't even load.

My sys specs are as follows: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600), Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6. 00PG, AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz, 2046MB RAM, Page File: 316MB used, 1863MB available, DirectX 9.0c. Oh and my machine a Gateway (formerly Emachines D6417) has a 300W power supply and only one PCIe (8X) bus/slot. All other slots are PCI.

Display Specs: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS, 256.0 MB, and I installed the drivers which came out 2 days ago.

I know absolutely nothing about BIOS settings or clocking (overclocking) or any of the advanced processes that fixing this problem will force me to learn. I have no idea what's wrong here I have tried other games and everything was getting hung, for awhile my whole system was unstable. Please help the only reason I went out and bought a new card was for BF2, I am simply, hooked.

I have recieved two stop errors from windows which stated: Error Message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER (Q293078). I recieved one while attempting to load BF2 and one when playing a video interview from dice. Windows resolution is a) update drivers; I did. b.) Change hardware acceleration to none and enable write combining; which I will try but it seems to lack granularity and I didn't buy a GPU to limit my graphics!

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

The newest drivers have been causing problems for some. Try using drivercleaner to clean out the 91 series, and install 84.21. That may help.

[therevolution01]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

Well, I've gotten a little further and a little worse off at the same time. I crash now at a map load on singleplayer game, the screen froze, went black; then alternated between black frozen BF2 screen to my windows screen. The only way out; power off! However when I did so now my CPU fan went crazy and there was nothing happening. Solution, pull the plug. So now I am back to a pretty unstable sys again w/ the display cutting even as I write this post. Help!

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

Did you try what I suggested?

[therevolution01]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

Oh, yeah. I removed the update drivers w/Driver Cleaner and found and installed the 8.xx forceware that you recommended. Sorry, left that one out.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

Ok, is there anything in event viewer?

[therevolution01]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

UNDER APPLICATIONS

Warning WinMngt (6 of these) A provider, OffProv11, has been registered in the WMI namespace, Root\MSAPPS11, to use the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests.

Warning EvntSys (5 of these) The COM+ Event System failed to fire the ConnectionMadeNoQOCInfo method on subscription {F0E93621-87C3-433A-95FA-BF816D913076}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. The subscriber returned HRESULT 80010105.

Warning Userenv (8 of these) Windows saved user DAVID\Owner registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

UNDER SYSTEM

System Error (2) - Error code 100000ea, parameter1 88b35da8, parameter2 8908c6f8, parameter3 ba4f7cb4, parameter4 00000001.

Does anyone think that it could be my PCU? 300W and I just installed this Vectro Nvidia 7600 GS and a creative Audigy 4 sound card with 2g Ram. Could it just be too much for this OEM'd tower running a 300W PCU? I have no idea what the 12V amperage rating is but I can check when I get home.

[venny]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

wow, u run a 7600GS on a 300W PSU? im not sure it feeds enough power to it. perhaps thats why it froze. not enough power to render the graphics. not enough power for the increased load, so hang, then crash.

[Alm()nd J()y]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

wow, u run a 7600GS on a 300W PSU? im not sure it feeds enough power to it. perhaps thats why it froze.

That's what I was wondering.

[therevolution01]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

Well I just installed an Antec 500W PSU w/ dual 12v rails 17A and 19A respectively and . . .still I get a crash upon boot of BF2 and an unstable system. How do I find out what motherboard my system has I see no designated marking s on it besides the chipset and those are like in board audio and visual correct?

well i went and updated drivers for my motherboard and flashed my bios all is up and working great. geez a graphics card what a difference!

[venny]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

could try dl CPU-z, it tells u alotta stuff about your pc.

[thelast500]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

oh yeh ur card it might be in 7k series but its just as good as a geforce 6200. gs=graphics suck.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

oh yeh ur card it might be in 7k series but its just as good as a geforce 6200. gs=graphics suck.

Um no. The 7600GS is miles ahead of the 6200. Please don't post if you have no idea what you're talking about.

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

Um no. The 7600GS is miles ahead of the 6200. Please don't post if you have no idea what you're talking about.

You can't argue with him, he's got a Pentiuem, and he somehow managed to fit it in an amd mobo.

[Eddy01741]

Re: Help my new GPU is crashing BF2 and my system but most importantly BF2.

You can't argue with him, he's got a Pentiuem, and he somehow managed to fit it in an amd mobo.

OMFG, lol, yea, real smart of him.