Asus rig BSOD

I'm not sure why but I been getting lot's of crash's and BSOD's
From what ive seen everything's pointing to the on board GPU going bad
The pc shuts off at random, turns back on and there's no display
Sometimes it takes several restarts to get the display working again.
Lots of times before crash, the screen blocks up and scrambles.


System Information
Asus m4a785t-m
Amd athlon II x2 250 3.0Ghz
Kingston 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) x2
COOLER MASTER eXtreme Power Plus RS-500-PCAR-A3-US 500W ATX12V v2.3 Power Supply
Operating system: Windows 7 x64


Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 1e
BCP1: 0000000000000000
BCP2: 0000000000000000
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

 

anyone?

 

It could be a driver issue, is it booting ok into safe mode? Is there enough airflow getting to the onboard GPU, If it has a fan is it working well? I don't know if you have one, but perhaps disable the onboard video and try a PCIE vid card and see what happens.

 

hrm, probably not a driver issue if it doesn't come back on after a hard restart. Are you running the latest BIOS?

 

I don't have a pci-e video card, There's plenty of air flow, I'm running 3 fans and they all work and I'm not even doing anything Like gaming that would be pushing the GPU to overheat, thus causing my problem, Asus told me to try resetting cmos,, but I don't know how.. I got this board brand new from newegg six months ago and I'm not sure if it has the latest bios..

 

I cleared cmos and all seems to be well, does this mean my computer is fine, no damage?? I'm gonna try that program anyway and see if i have the latest bios.

 

BIOS
Brand American Megatrends Inc.
Version 0603
Date 09/10/2009

 

A number of reviews I just read about that mobo mention video problems and high temp readings for the onboard video chip. Don't know if the graphics are in the northbridge or southbridge chip. If it has a heatsink on it could be that the contact (heat tape, heatsink compound) may have loosened up.

As for the BIOS, the latest version is vr. 2201, dated 7/15/2010. There are 13 listed on Asus' site, vr 0306, 08/18/2009 being the initial release of the board.

Sam

 

any clue where i can get a good program for on board gpu temps??

 

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Clearing Cmos seemed to help Only for a day, I went a ful day with out a crash, then it started again..

 

RMA time, lmao...