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Offline redsniper

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Computer hardware woes
on: July 30, 2010, 12:09:58 am
So, I've been troubleshooting an FSO bug in this thread. Which now seems to be caused by a deeper hardware problem. I've quoted my last post here:

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So, I tried running another game (Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl) and it crashed in much the same way that FSO did. Which leads me to believe this is a general hardware problem and not an FSO problem. I swapped out my video card for an older card. FSO still crashes, but does not lock up the whole computer, it's just an immediate CTD. Here's the log just for kicks: http://pastebin.org/430901

Now Stalker can get to the menu screen, but when I try to load a game (ie get to the actual 3d rendering part) it crashes to a black screen and locks up the computer.

I'm kind of at a loss now. If I had to guess, I'd say this indicates a motherboard problem.

So yeah, any help or advice here would be greatly appreciated. First card was an HD 4890 and the backup is an X1900XT if it matters.

EDIT: Something strange just now. Trying to run a benchmark on the X1900 using ATI Tray Tools to see if that would crash everything. Benchmark fails to run saying "No support for GLSL found. Reinstall drivers, etc." The latest official drivers for the X1900 seemed kind of shady, so I'll try this with the 4890 tomorrow.
« Last Edit: July 30, 2010, 12:27:38 am by redsniper »
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Re: Computer hardware woes
Reply #1 on: July 31, 2010, 01:03:24 am
Nm, I got it.
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Re: Computer hardware woes
Reply #2 on: July 31, 2010, 01:19:04 am
 

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Re: Computer hardware woes
Reply #3 on: July 31, 2010, 01:23:01 am
[01:00] <redsniper> I fixed it :D
[01:00] <sigtau> gj redsniper
[01:00] <sigtau> what'd you do
[01:00] <redsniper> safe mode
[01:01] <redsniper> uninstalled drivers in safe mode and ran driver sweeper
[01:01] <sigtau> :O!
[01:01] <redsniper> then, again in safe mode, started the catalyst installer, but didn't actually use it to install just let it extract
[01:01] <redsniper> then pointed the windows driver update thing at the .inf
[01:02] <redsniper> so yeah, makes me wonder wtf broke it in the first place

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Re: Computer hardware woes
Reply #4 on: July 31, 2010, 02:25:44 pm
Perhaps driver corruption caused it.
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Re: Computer hardware woes
Reply #5 on: July 31, 2010, 02:58:08 pm
Oh yeah, I'm quite sure it was corrupted drivers. The weird thing was it happened regardless of which card I used or which version of the drivers. I had a couple BSODs right after the installer finished installing, so I guess it was ATI's installer somehow screwing things up.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Computer hardware woes
Reply #6 on: July 31, 2010, 04:30:18 pm
It's not so wierd since both cards use the same drivers. Catalyst is supposed to be standard across all ATI cards.
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