Glitching Screen, Chequerboard multicoloured freezing pattern. :(

[ianfry]

Hey there, so I thought all was going well, but now having major problems. I could just casually be on the internet or playing a game when the screen freezes. The screen sort of turns into a chequerboard and the alternate squares turn to a pinky redy purple colour and jump up and down. Im not able to move the mouse, and nothing responds to keyboard presses. The only way I been getting past this is holding down the power button, which of course not good for my computer. So any advice would be a great help.

Thanks.

 

[Corfate]

All GPU drivers up to date?

 

[ianfry]

Yeah, when I got my computer I update my driver through the Nvidia Settings which was in my taskbar. It worked fine, although seemed a bit laggy on some games, I then was notified of a new update a couple of days ago for Nvidia GTX 570, but since that update i've had this problem. Would reverting back to the previous version fix this issue?

 

[vanthus]

Possibly,try rolling back driver.

 

[ianfry]

Right, i'll give that a bash. How do I revert back to a previous version of device driver safely?

 

[vanthus]

Right, i'll give that a bash. How do I revert back to a previous version of device driver safely?

Click Start, type Devmgmt.msc(device manager) into Search bar and press Enter.
Expand the Display adapters, right click device & select uninstall and restart the computer.
Windows should then install previous driver.

 

[ianfry]

I did this, but it reinstalled the same driver as what I had before uninstalling as it is the latest driver available via Nvidia. Since uninstalling and reinstalling I haven't noticed the freezing/ chequers but I was on Minecraft and it said I ran out of Memory. I have 16GB Ram, and wasn't doing anything intensive in game, it simply pulled out of the game and said out of memory.

Not a clue, why i'm having so many problems. I thought these systems were meant to be fully tested before being dispatched. I've had it not even two weeks yet, and already had many problems

 

[Corfate]

Well, I've heard of lots of people running oh of memory on minecraft, from the sounds of it, it's a problem with the game not the actual rig itself. I'll have a scan online tomorrow in my free periods and see what I can find for you

The systems are all fully tested, but problems do arise later on that may be due to software you've installed, or just program's conflicting. Try can all get fixed one way or another

 

[vanthus]

Probably a better way of rolling back driver would be to right click on device/properties/click on driver tab/select roll back driver,if the option is greyed out, you dont have a previous driver,you would need to install it from manufacturers website,
anyway it seems to have solved the problem.
Does the memory problem only happen with Minecraft?

 

[baron75mk2]

Hi , so reinstalling drivers fixed the freezing & checkers problem for you i presume from your post.

as for the message saying you have ran out of memory , do you mean that pesky windows message that tells you you have ran out of ram /system resources in mid game ? - & asks you if you want to change to basic mode or some such rubbish ? - if so just click on keep current setup ( sorry i cant remember the actual wording of the message as i have not seen it in some time) & set to never notify ( again cant quite remember the options but its along these lines ) - i have seen this so many times in the past & never have figured out why it does it when eveidently you have not run out of resources / ram at all like in my cases the same applied - all i know is when you get this in a game just do the 2 settings i have mentioned above & it will not trouble you any more.

Its always puzzeld me this thing as once i was playing turok 2 (well old game that only wants a 32mb card & tiny amount of ram & processor) on an I7 920 & a gtx 580 with 3gb of system ram & it poped up & crashed my game - silly how could such a low spec game be draining this kind of hardware ? & it wasnt a compatibilty message it was the same message i think you may be getting ( although i could be wrong )

If in fact it isnt this message & is a message telling you you have run out of gpu memory ( can see it myself ) , had something similar with a game telling me it had run out of v ram but this just turned out to be a bug with the game & the way it addressed direct x & v ram occasionally.

If it is a v-ram error somebody who is farmiliar with your game & set up will be able to help you more with this.

Hope this helps .