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Photo of my FSX nightmare

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Bone

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FSX lock-ups have become a very common issue for me. Just before the deed happens, my screen is taken over by striated lines. The striated lines begin on the MFD's and HUD, and are vertical. Then, after 2-3 seconds, the lines show up every where else and are horizontal. About 2 seconds later, the machine is locked up and won't respond to any keyboard inputs. I have to hit the reset button on my case.

The second picture happens sometimes after the striated lines do their thing, but it's rare.

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That was my thought too... looks a lot like a graphics card that's getting too hot. Have you tried opening your case and turning a fan directly on the innards to see if this still happens? It's low-tech, but it can be helpful for troubleshooting.
 
My GPU's have temps of 80-81c with FSX under a heavy load. I've used each of them (geforce 8800 gtx's) individually to try and troubleshoot, but the problem is the same.

I've been told the temps that I'm getting aren't that bad.
 
80C is quite warm. My GTX280 rarely goes over 60C under load. I'm sure the 8800 series run a little warmer, but 80C still sounds a bit high.
 
I had a similar issue.. it was incredibly hard to track down. Same symptoms.. everything was going well, and then BOOM.. weird lines, and then lockup.

It turned out to be a m-board / graphics card problem. I was running an EVGA 780sli board, and an 8800GTS512 v-card. After MANY communications with experts, and EVGA.. the solution ended up being a BIOS flash for the m-board.

Hope this helps..
 
Open the case, position a small fan on the floor to blow into the open case and try again.
 
80c isn't too much for an 8800gtx under load. What temps are your cpu, nb and sb? Also,have you run Memtest to see if you've got some ailing memory?
 
Brett_Henderson said:
I had a similar issue.. it was incredibly hard to track down. Same symptoms.. everything was going well, and then BOOM.. weird lines, and then lockup.

It turned out to be a m-board / graphics card problem. I was running an EVGA 780sli board, and an 8800GTS512 v-card. After MANY communications with experts, and EVGA.. the solution ended up being a BIOS flash for the m-board.

Hope this helps..
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I have the 780i SLI board, also, and I flashed the BIOS with the PO3 update quite some time ago. It did improve the performance of my machine, but no help with lock-ups.
 
Its heat..Mine does the same thing at 70 degrees C.

Use EVGA Percission and crank the fans up to 100% and try it out..Once you see the problem is fixed, reduce the fans down to like 80% and try..Then 60 %...You will find what they want that way...
 
kilo delta said:
80c isn't too much for an 8800gtx under load. What temps are your cpu, nb and sb? Also,have you run Memtest to see if you've got some ailing memory?
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I've run MemTest a number of times, I even let it run for a two day loop...and the memory passed.

I just checked my temps again, and at 3.00mhz with FSX running I'm getting 61c, 59c, 58c, 58c on the cores and 80c on the GPU.
 
harleyman said:
Its heat..Mine does the same thing at 70 degrees C.

Use EVGA Percission and crank the fans up to 100% and try it out..Once you see the problem is fixed, reduce the fans down to like 80% and try..Then 60 %...You will find what they want that way...
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I just took a peek at the EVGA PRecision stuff, looks really cool.
 
Perhaps you could purchase an inexpensive used car with excellent air conditioning, park it up beside your house under the office window, attach some hoses to the dash, run them into your office into the computer facing the GC's, then start the car, and start the computer, and boot up FS!

You could even have a remote starter. That way, blip the key fob each time you want to go flying..


:d


(ok.. maybe thats extreme.. )
 
Graphic card overclocked? Had something like that several years ago with an overclocked card...

If it is overclocked, take it down a step and try again...
 
Check your case's air intakes and exhaust... they may need a good cleaning. Especially if you have filters on the intakes. Get the canned air out and blow the crud off that graphics card and CPU heatsink. It just might be a case of things needing a good cleaning. And you could crank up the exhaust fans to help get rid of that hot air. ;)
 
Have you tried removing the video drivers and then using a driver cleaner and removing the left overs. Also pull the video card and reseat it. What does the video card do in safe mode?
 
Mr.Mugel said:
Graphic card overclocked? Had something like that several years ago with an overclocked card...

If it is overclocked, take it down a step and try again...
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Yeah, it's factory OC'd...Geforce call's it superclocked to 768mb.


Brett_Henderson said:
P03 ? They're up to PO8.. I believe it was PO6 that cured my problem.
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Er, I guess I'm a little behind the power curve.


hey_moe said:
Have you tried removing the video drivers and then using a driver cleaner and removing the left overs. Also pull the video card and reseat it. What does the video card do in safe mode?
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I've pulled both cards and reseted them, and also swapped their positions. I just reformatted my machine so the Video driver is on a clean slate.
 
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