my GPU on the fritz?

Well this is what I suggest,

Uninstall the drivers from the GPU and manually update BF3's PunkBuster support downloading the file here:
PunkBuster Online Countermeasures


Download, install, run, scan and clean the corrupted registry files using Ccleaner.
Download CCleaner 3.24.1850 - Download - FileHippo.com


If your hard drive is to fragmented (which I don't consider that is the reason why this is happening to you), you can defragment your hard drive using the Defragmentation tool of Windows by right-clicking the hard drive, select properties, tools and selection Defragmentation, scan and run. (I highly suggest the Defraggler software because I don't trust Microsoft basic tools) You can download the software here:
Download Defraggler 2.11.560 - Download - FileHippo.com


You should also use the CHKDSK command on the Command Prompt to see if there's any corrupt files with PB or the drivers themselves of the GPU allocated on the hard drive. (Windows key on the keyboard) + R and then run CMD. After doing that type "chkdsk/f" and just restart your computer and wait until the scanning of the bad sectors of your hard drive complete.

If it doesn't work, the only thing to do is to make a fresh installation of the Operative System. Otherwise, the GPU is the problem and you'll have to get a replacement. I hope this would be useful, later man.
 
sixer9682 said:
That might be your RAM, actually. Try downloading memtest and run it to check for errors.
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When my 8800 GTX fried from folding it would bluescreen everytime I started a 3d application. Memory bluescreens usually have pretty specific error codes but not always.
 
It would be incredibly stupid is all. Putting a ton of unnecessary wear for zero effect. Data is not stored or accessed in a sequential manner from flash and defrag won't change that for shit.

I dunno what the method of the year is but excluding the raid like setup with most drives now traditionally flash is written every 4 blocks and then offset by one each pass until full. So by its very nature its fragmented as fuck but thanks to access performance it doesn't matter. This is all internal on a low level windows can't see it at all.

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Crazy, I've no idea how flash works, mechanical drives make sense. SSD just seem like magic.
I don't have them in RAID, they're only 60GB drives so one with the OS is pretty much used up and BF3 on the other.
 
Mechanical drives are written in a sequential manner from the first block to the last. The boot record at the start leading the operating system to the indexes for the partitions. In general one partition files are written start to end. You run into existing data you have to write past it to the next available space. That is the point fragmentation occurs. Mechanical drives have to move a head to access data. This seeking takes time so a sequential read is more desirable. Hence defragmentation.

I don't pretend to know a shit ton about it but here is what I do know. Flash chips wear with each write. Which is why instead of writing over data immediately when it is deleted that "freed" space is not written to until all other "free" blocks have been used again. Flash can also only be erased as a block. The format I am used to is 16 Kilobyte blocks and writing to one every 4 blocks. Flash is very unsuited to traditional formats such as FAT and NTFS and compatibility with such is done through the controller, accessing data in a linear fashion is emulated. When you try to defrag an SSD data may be moved around and windows may think the data has been moved into sequential order. In the end on the flash chips themselves that data is still spread all over the place and you did nothing but wear the drive down some more.

You may have not understood when I said "raid like". Many SSD designs write and access the chips in a raid fashion. This is for several reasons, error correction, data redundancy, speed. Rather than writing to once chip at a time in order like a traditionally minded design you can write to several chips simultaneously and read from them in the same manner. Increasing read and write performance over the characteristics of that single flash chip.
 
Still can't wrap my head around flash... but the performance is amazing.
 
You need a picture of 303 west 5th ave in new york.

Okay mechanical drive, you drive around new york looking for 303 west 5th ave using a map.

SSD, You point satellite directly at 303 west 5th ave using its known coordinate.

Really horrible explanation but anyways flash can retrieve information from any point of a chips storage with the same speed as there is no wait time for the read head to move into position.
 
EVGA is usually pretty awesome about this kind of stuff, everyone I've ever known who has had an EVGA board take a shit got a new one shipped to them. That's why EVGA is the only video card manufacturer I will buy from.
 
cplmac said:
EVGA is usually pretty awesome about this kind of stuff, everyone I've ever known who has had an EVGA board take a shit got a new one shipped to them. That's why EVGA is the only video card manufacturer I will buy from.
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So far so good, I filled out the RMA with the bluescreen code and got approved within the hour (they said 1-2 days).
 
I had one I RMA'd recently because I couldn't get all the screws off the back plate to replace the stock cooler...they sent me a new video card :) I love EVGA :) Also, the 580 I sold to Bob took a shit about 3 months after he bought it and we RMAd the thing and...they sent him a new one!
 
Hope you get your card replaced in a timely fashion!
I also have an SSD and the damn thing is almost at capacity. Can I put my games on my storage drive, instead of the ssd with OS??
 
death-head-666 said:
Hope you get your card replaced in a timely fashion!
I also have an SSD and the damn thing is almost at capacity. Can I put my games on my storage drive, instead of the ssd with OS??
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That's what I've done, I have my OS on one SSD and BF3 on the other.
 
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