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Videeocard issue :(

Did your computer overheat or anything? It might be that your GFX card is taking a big shit on you.
 
Video memory corruption. 1) Heat. 2) Not enough power. 3) Video card dying.

1) Check that the temps are not going through the roof on the gfx card. Not sure if guru3d.com has something in their downloads to tell you temps or not, but I think every newer ATI card has internal sensors for it, so maybe even SpeedFan could tell you the temp.
2) My biggest problem moving from 1 to 2 gfx cards was my power supply. I had a 600watt, that just wasn't putting out 600w...then I bought a 750watt cheapo from PCDirect(local and online reseller) and that thing couldn't put out enough to drive one card, so I went with a more expensive 650watt from OCZ or Coolermaster, forget which and that things works great...so buyer beware! Gfx cards drink more juice than CPU's now...and having 2 is really a big drain.
3) Easy way to test this is run one card at a time, max settings in some tests. Play crysis, or anything that will try it's best to max your gfx...one or the other may result in the corruption, thus you identified the bard card to RMA it.
 
I started getting artefacts with my nvidia, 6 month old. Turned out to be a bad memory module (worked in OpenGL but not d3d - go figure) - but I agree with the other posters, overheating or not enough power from your psu.

Checking one card at a time is a must.

If it hasn't been fixed by the time I get to my computer I will dig out and give links to 2 video card mem tests that can check for mem calc errors. these can also stress test to raise the temp, see what happens.

Always worth running memtest on system memory as main cause of bsod

(most likely gfx card related but what if you have 2 problems? Could highlight if it's a power draw problem)

Good luck
 
sometimes a reformat might help, you might be due for one anyway, and it would help clean things out if you went to a few websites where you shouldn't have and got all infected.
 
kayes said:
So, my computer randoml?y crashes all of a sudden... And when I open some windows with settings they are shown like this:

ImageShack? - Online Photo and Video Hosting

My computer also crashes to BSOD. I have ATI videocards in X-fire.

Any clues?
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try it with 1 video card first, then if that seems to work swap the video cards out and try the other 1, if that works then put both in and leave the side of the case off and try setting a fan next to the case, if it doesnt bsod on you it is most likely an overheating problem, if that doesnt work then it could be bad drivers, i have ati hd 5770's and there is not enough space between them on my motherboard and not enough air circulation in my case and it causes that exact issue if i dont have the side open and both video cards are in
 
shinavaka said:
try it with 1 video card first, then if that seems to work swap the video cards out and try the other 1, if that works then put both in and leave the side of the case off and try setting a fan next to the case, if it doesnt bsod on you it is most likely an overheating problem, if that doesnt work then it could be bad drivers, i have ati hd 5770's and there is not enough space between them on my motherboard and not enough air circulation in my case and it causes that exact issue if i dont have the side open and both video cards are in
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Newegg.com - Thermaltake A2426 80mm Blue LED PCI Slot Case Cooler

^^ try putting 3 of these in your case

or similar:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999704
 
Thanks for all the help guys, awesome :)

I have reinstalled windows7 just some months ago so I almost have a fresh install of the OS, have also completely reinstalled the screen drivers after the crashes started.
What I came to think of was my circulation pump stopping for 10 minutes and my CPU went to 110degrees celcius once :p Its a Intel quad 6600.

I have 2 different RAM types in my computer, one is 1,65V and one 1,7V, maybe that can cause unstability. Sadly I can't check my videocards temperatures right now, will install the complete drivers again so I can check it.
 
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