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Well, I actually found out there's a problem with this video card and the motherboard. I was running NTune from nVIDIA and I crashed a couple of times (which is expected..) but my BIOS settings got reset as well at one of the freezes.
It is a GeForce 7900GTX-Duo which wasn't really put into production due to the fact of its imense size and the amount of power it takes. Alienware just shipped the wrong card and they'll be sending the GeForce 7950 GX2 which is a shorter card and less of a power hogger.
The Blue Screen started off as 0x0000007E and then 4 more sets of those numbers in bewteen parentheses as in (here, here, here, here)
An IRQ is allocated to the PCI as well. When I get the new video card I hope the problem fixes itself.
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ok let us know how it goes.... the 4 sets of numbers help to sort out what the problem is- it is worth posting those 0x7e has a number of causes... is there a file name mentioned?
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Actually not... I did not see a filename..
Funny how I just locked about 2 minutes into the game F.E.A.R. now and my BIOS got reset.. Had to re-set everything back! My 7950GX2 will be arriving on Tuesday... Hopefully I will then be able to play games in this "nuclear power plant" computer I have.. ;)
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Let us know how it goes... and don't forget to uninstall the old video card in safe mode!
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I probably won't have to uninstall it. Since the 7900GTX-Duo never really came out, nVIDIA didn't make drivers for it. It's a "prototype" version of the 7950 GX2 so the drivers detect the card as a 7950 GX2. Drivers are the exact same ones so I'm just going to swap the cards out and re-set the BIOS to be on the safe side and reconfigure it all back. :)
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OK, but for the sake of clicking uninstall... you could save yourself alot of hassle.
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So... Well, AW just like I predicted sent me the same, wrong card... Spoke to them and they're finally sending me the correct card. I should be getting it later this week, then we'll see! :)
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Ok so some updates! They sent me the correct card... But that wasn't the issue I was having.. Pretty frustrating.. So I called Alienware Tech Support and he ruled a bad PSU.. But before he'd send one in, he asked me to remove my X-Fi Soundcard and my Ageia PhysX card... and bam.. no lock ups on games, well I tested BF 2142. So I remember reading once that the ASUS board I have, P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe having some compabilitity issues with the X-Fi card... So I put the PhysX back in only and no lock ups again... Then I called the Techs again, he asked me to put the X-Fi back in one more time and see if it would happen... Funny thing that I didn't lock up again.. Well I tested for about 1 hour and it didn't happen. Only a couple of days will tell. Maybe re-sitting the card in the motherboard (same PCI slot by the way..) might have fixed it? Maybe it was incorrectly placed or might have gotten misplaced during shipping of the system... Well I'll post some more!
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Good news indeed. Let's hope it was just not seated correctly and you have no more trouble.
