Monitor Goes Black, Light Goes Red?

Heyas, I have a problem when I play Guild Wars (it seems to be Guild Wars only, no other games, even Half-Life 2, WoW and Doom 3 don't do this) quite often I will be playing and my monitor will go black and the little light will go red. I thought it might be my refresh rate so I turned it to default in-game and back to 60 on my desktop but that didn't fix it. I also tried running in Windowed mode.

I can't even get back to my desktop after this happens and am forced to shut off my computer by hand and turn it back on...

My Specs are:
P4 2.8ghz 800mhz FSB, GeForce 6800 128, 512 Ram, 120g HD.

Any ideas would be very helpful, thank you!

I had the same problem. you need a new driver for your card. go here http://www.omegadrivers.net/

I installed the new Win2k/XP Omega Drivers and overwrote the new files as instructed in the readme and it didnt fix my problem?

Bollocks... thanks, though!

have the same problem too

I have this big time. I happens because of the drivers doing VPU recover (because the driver lost control of the VPU) but I don't know how to fix it.
Anyone, please help us.

_Zexion

Overclocked PC?

No. I posted apost called (Problems with mobo/GFX card/computer" explaining my problem more in depth earlier.
Lost track of it though.
And I was told to turn off VPU Recover, but it didn't help.

_Zexion

i think i had that same problem. it might be your video card overheating. thats what it was for me.

I have a 6800 but the gt version, and i've not had the probs your having(well yet anyway), you try turning off fast writes in the bios, that might help..

Mind you I have an AMD64 setup, could it be intel related??

I had the same problem but it was for everything... I fixed it by checking the wall outlets and saw that the wall outlet in my room were not grounded properly. Took a long connector and plugged it into a wall that had grounded wires. Ever since that day, my computer has been running perfectly fine.

I tried the VGU thing and it never worked, never tried the omega drivers though, but it works now so I won't bother with these new drivers.

If your screen goes blank and the monitor light goes red it means only one thing, the monitor is no longer getting a video signal. That is a hardware problem pure and simple. It could be caused by drivers or by faulty memory on the vid card. There could be some video function that GW uses and none of your other games. In any case, the problem is definately on your computer.

I have the same problems, I have a Radeon 9800pro, with a 3200 Athlon64 and a gig of ram. Acetonic it does sound like a hardware problem but like King Kizer I have no problems with any of my other games, EQ2, WoW, Doom3, HL2 etc. and I don't think Guild Wars is a particularly taxing game on hardware. That's not to say that it's trying to do something odd or different from all of the other games I run.

I haven't tried yet but I'll attempt to go back a few versions of my graphics driver to see if that helps, they're the latest right now but that's not always the best

I have tried with CATALYST 5.2, 5.4, and now I'm trying 5.3.
I have ATI Radeon 9800 PRO, AMD Athlon64 3200+ and 1 gig of Corsair RAM, and a MSI K8T Neo2 motherboard.

Meanwhile, could someone please answer me how I can diagnose my system for hardware errors?

_Zexion

Hi Zexion, it can be quite hard to reliably diagnose hardware problems, aside from running through programs that tax your hardware. Try running through 3dmark a few times and or aquamark also. There is a nice ram checker called memcheck86 or something like that which is awesome at determining if it is a ram issue.

It seems to me that a lot of people are having this issue and it doesn't seem to relate to any one type of hardware that I can see. Maybe our computers are just a tad flaky and combined with some flakiness (spelling? heh) in GW it could combine to make our problem.