Does anyone know why this happens?
Is it a driver thang?
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by RedneckDude | Discussion: Personal Computing
Hey guys, I get this error occaisionally and my graphics driver crashes. I reinstalled the driver to no avail. I do know that my graphics card is rated for a minimum 300 watt power supply and I only have a 250W.
This usually happens when running Photoshop, or Yahoo Video Chat.
Sometimes, when running Photoshop for a while, if I open another graphics program, my PC will go grey and I have to manually reboot to fix it. I get a kernel power error in my event log.
Please help.
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Reply #22 Friday, March 26, 2010 9:18 PM
Drives.
I had the same thing with my nVidia. It took about 2 months for an update to them to be published and it stopped.
Reply #23 Saturday, March 27, 2010 2:57 AM
OK, SO FAR, I haven't crashed. I updated the video driver, nVidia has a new one, I updated my power supply, and Wiz and I have been on Yahoo Video chat all night, and I had photoshop open all the while. SKS7 open too. And skype.
Probably unrelated, I found that windows update had given me nVidia sound drivers, when I also had realtek installed, which is the correct driver. Dunno why W.U. would put nVidia sound drivers on my system. But I'm sure there was a conflict there somewhere.
Anyway, so far, so good...... 
Reply #24 Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:04 AM
nVidia sound drivers??? I did not even know they made a sound card. 
Reply #25 Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:29 AM
If it has HDMI hook up then it installed the HDMI audio drivers. The nVidia card I installed on my step-sons PC did the same thing only he lost all sound until I figured it out.
Reply #26 Saturday, March 27, 2010 3:25 PM
The sound is built in to boards that have the nForce chipsets.
Reply #27 Saturday, March 27, 2010 4:44 PM
nVidia sound drivers??? I did not even know they made a sound card.
The sound is built in to boards that have the nForce chipsets.
No. But the sound IS a part of the video card if it has an HDMI hookup, which mine has. But I don't use the HDMI connection. I use the VGA. I have an HDMI TV I use as a monitor, but when hooked up via HDMI, I don't get as nice a display. VGA seems crisper.
Reply #28 Saturday, March 27, 2010 6:26 PM
Never heard of a video card that has a sound output. Interesting.
What I meant is that Nvidia makes the chipset on the board therefore they make drivers for the sound output.
Reply #29 Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:18 PM
What I meant is that Nvidia makes the chipset on the board therefore they make drivers for the sound output.
Maybe on some...not on mine. I do have an nVidia chipset on my board, and my ethernet controller is nVidia. But my sound is Realtek HiDef sound.
Reply #30 Saturday, March 27, 2010 9:49 PM
You will find the driver for the audio is also listed at Nvidia's website.
Reply #31 Sunday, March 28, 2010 12:22 PM
Yes, just in case I use the HDMI connection...thanks dude!
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Reply #21 Friday, March 26, 2010 9:02 PM
Mine used to crash with Dreams on a nvidia card but since updating my card, my crashes have stopped.