Screen goes black (monitor lost connection to video card) randomly

xirxxt · 03-11-2010, 11:56 AM

Issue

I have a brand new installation of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and I only have EQ2 on the box.

The screen has been going black during the last few days. There is no rhyme or reason for it to go black. Sometimes it goes black at 4 hours or sometimes just 15 minutes. I can be on a griffon, trying to open the journal, or just running. I have to hard boot the machine to get it to fix. When this occurs, the sound from EQ2 goes off as well.

I have never had this issue in any game. Does anyone else have this sort of problem?Does EQ2 have a log file of the error that occurred that I can look at?

Computer Specs

EVGA 780i SLI FTW QX9650 @ 3.4 GHZ Mushkin 2x4GB Blackline Enhanced 1066 EVGA GTX 285 FTW Edition 2GB - 196.75 drivers Corsair HX1000W

kracken · 03-11-2010, 08:20 PM

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=453672

This has some info, not very hopeful though, also evga forums has some info on this problem.

xirxxt · 03-25-2010, 12:46 PM

Just an update -

I reinstalled Windows 7 on a new hard drive - same issues.

I updated my 780i FTW bios and this seems to have fixed the problem (3 days so far).

03-11-2010, 11:56 AM	#1
xirxxt General Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 30	Issue I have a brand new installation of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and I only have EQ2 on the box. The screen has been going black during the last few days. There is no rhyme or reason for it to go black. Sometimes it goes black at 4 hours or sometimes just 15 minutes. I can be on a griffon, trying to open the journal, or just running. I have to hard boot the machine to get it to fix. When this occurs, the sound from EQ2 goes off as well. I have never had this issue in any game. Does anyone else have this sort of problem?Does EQ2 have a log file of the error that occurred that I can look at? Computer Specs EVGA 780i SLI FTW QX9650 @ 3.4 GHZ Mushkin 2x4GB Blackline Enhanced 1066 EVGA GTX 285 FTW Edition 2GB - 196.75 drivers Corsair HX1000W

03-11-2010, 08:20 PM	#2
kracken Journeyman Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 2	http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=453672 This has some info, not very hopeful though, also evga forums has some info on this problem.

03-25-2010, 12:46 PM	#3
xirxxt General Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 30	Just an update - I reinstalled Windows 7 on a new hard drive - same issues. I updated my 780i FTW bios and this seems to have fixed the problem (3 days so far).