Hi community, I have some issues with my PC and want to seek for some help in this forum (I'm not a PC specialist and I'm glad that SW01_Dark is already helping me with the issue)
Problem description:
The screen freezes suddenly although all applications are still running (Teamspeak, Battlefield 2). The screen freezes for 2-5 seconds, then I get one new frame, that still freezes for 2-5 seconds, then again one new frame for 2-5 seconds and so on ... It takes 30-60 seconds; then I get a bluescreen with the message:
VIDEO TDR FAILURE
nvlddmkm.sys
Sometimes the screen freezes and gets black immediately (after 2-5 seconds), then the monitor shows the message: NO SIGNAL (but it is no problem with the cable or port)
All I can do is to restart my PC.
After every 2nd – 4th crash I can not connect with Windows (usually u get this message right after the boot: „Welcome“ and then you are on your desktop). Instead of „Welcome“ I get this message: „Windows is being prepared“, and it takes round about 2-3 minutes of loading. Then I receive a different desktop background with far less programs, probably some kind of protected mode, and the message: „login to your windows account failed“. So I have to log out and log in again, usually (but not always – then I have to restart again) it works then and I have access to my Windows desktop.
Sometimes I loose all my settings in Battlefield. The controls, video and audio settings are being resetted to default, even the prefix can be lost. This happens after every 3rd – 8th crash.
These crashes occur at the beginning; 10-60 mins after I started my PC the first time. Sometimes there is a second crash following the first crash a few minutes (5-30) later. It is rarely that a third crash occurs after the second crash (because I stopped playing before it happens). Commonly I can play for hours without problems after the second crash. Suddenly, 3-5 hours later there might be a third crash then.
I think (but I'm not 100 % sure whether it isn't just a coincidece) that these issues started after I upgraded my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 10 with the free download last year, because I never had such problems with Windows 7 and it happended right after the upgrade the fist time.
I don't know if it is important here, but there was a period of time 2-3 months ago my PC just go off while running due to a broken power adapter. I bought a new one, now there are no further issues.
Here some hardware information; I purchased the PC in the year 2006
Motherboard:
ASUS P5N-E SLI
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 2*3,2 GHz
RAM:
4 GB
Graphics Card:
Nvidia GeForce GTX260
Power adapter:
be quiet! Pure Power 9 (600 W)
Thank you for your help
Regards,
Carbon