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Posted by Dave on Wed Sep 1 19:08:18 2010 You may remember a week or so ago when I posted about having frequent crash dumps on my new Dell desktop (Windows 7-64). They were happening every 10 - 15 minutes. I spent 90 minutes on the phone with a very helpful Dell tech support person who ran through diagnostics and helped me install an updated video driver. She said this was a known problem with the GeoForce GTS 240.Even after the driver update I was still getting crash dumps 1 - 2x per day. Better but I was still not happy. She called back the next day to see if I was having more problems (when did Dell start doing that? I was impressed.) and I explained I was. She suggested I pull the RAM cards one at a time and let the CPU run with only three cards - see if the CPU was still crash dumping. If not, then it's a bad RAM card. If yes, it's likely a bad motherboard. On Monday I got hit with a Trojan that messed things up a bit so I needed to run system restore to fix things. I had to go back BEFORE I did the drive update so now I had the old driver again and back to crash dumps every 10 - 15 minutes. After fiddling around with the driver updates from Dell I said screw it, went to Nvidia's website and downloaded a MUCH more recent driver. Uninstalled the old driver, installed the new driver, and no more problems. So here's the rant. Why is Dell shipping out boxes with drivers they know are kludging up systems? And why have an old driver on the Dell website when Nvidia has a much more recent driver on theirs? |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Wed Sep 1 19:14:21 2010, in response to Ar rant...and a question, posted by Dave on Wed Sep 1 19:08:18 2010. Sounds like a 3rd party issue with Nvidia. Might be all sorts of bs work and committees to distribute the new driver. Some guy has to justify his paycheck by "testing" it then taking it to someone else with a self important title.I'm surprised it was just a new driver that fixed it for you. I've had problems before where my computer will start dumping, or more recently just lock up, and went more frequently. Seems to be the only time I ever upgrade. new board upgraded fixed it. I recall a family members emachine had some sort of issue, replaced it with the exact same almost model mainboard, fixed theirs. Never got as lucky as you have there. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Sep 1 19:18:13 2010, in response to Ar rant...and a question, posted by Dave on Wed Sep 1 19:08:18 2010. As crappy as Dell has gotten, NVidia's been having some serious problems of their own. They've been making me absolutely crazy with our KNOS operating system with their fixes every other week lately. And still there are broken things in their code that I've had to write around and when I've filed PR (Problem Reports) with specifics as to where the problems are in their code, they don't even respond with a receipt much less a fix.It sounds as though Dell is finally noticing their share dropping like a rock and are trying to retain customers and that's a good thing. Hopefully NVidia will be challenged by ATI getting THEIR act together now that AMD owns them, and get on the stick. I would *definitely* force a system restore point where you were with that new driver in there so you have it the next time Winblows eats bad clams. :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Sep 1 19:21:01 2010, in response to Re: Ar rant...and a question, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Wed Sep 1 19:14:21 2010. Blue screens are almost always either a loose physical connection to a card in a socket (memory chips too) or a bad driver kissing the sidewalk. NVidia's been doing some truly stupid things with their code lately ... Chinese coders are cheap and do excellent math and such, but their command of English documentation in HOW to write the code sucks. The company I was last with is still learning that lesson the hard way while continuing to become a laughing stock for the sheer volume of bugs and fail modes. |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Wed Sep 1 19:36:20 2010, in response to Re: Ar rant...and a question, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Sep 1 19:18:13 2010. is NVidia a audio program ? |
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Posted by RockParkMan on Wed Sep 1 19:39:27 2010, in response to Re: Ar rant...and a question, posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Wed Sep 1 19:36:20 2010. nVidia makes the GeForce line of video cards for PCs. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Sep 1 19:42:14 2010, in response to Re: Ar rant...and a question, posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Wed Sep 1 19:36:20 2010. NVidia is a chip maker. They make video cards, motherboard controller chips and a raft of custom IC's ... their hardware is pretty good. Their software, not so ... |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Wed Sep 1 19:51:38 2010, in response to Re: Ar rant...and a question, posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Sep 1 19:42:14 2010. my e machine says it got it ............thankz |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Sep 1 19:56:37 2010, in response to Re: Ar rant...and a question, posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Wed Sep 1 19:51:38 2010. Yep ... in the early eMachines, most of the motherboard was NVidia chipset ... |
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