I've been getting a stop code of 0x000000EA. It happens whenever I play the games Prey and Fear. With Prey, the problem happens after about an hour or two of playing. First, I will start getting random artifacting which will increase over a period of 20 or 30 seconds. Typically, I exit before I get any more. When I exit, the desktop will have artifacts all over it. Whenever I click the mouse on anything or do a keystroke that will change what is displayed on the screen, the screen will flash black, then back on and the change will be made. For example, I would right click on the desktop and it would flash off. When it flashed back on, the standard right-click screen would appear. I was able to mimic this while playing a movie with Videolan media player. Rebooting was the only way to fix this. My video drivers are up to date 91.47 nvidia drivers. I decided to do a complete reinstall of the OS. I decided to try out a different game, Fear. The game started artifacting about 2 or 3 minutes into the first cinematic. I exited and it did the same thing. Again, rebooting was the only way to fix the problem. Tried running it again after it got back up and let it run through hoping the artifacts would stop. The game ended up freezing. After about 10 seconds, the game went to a black screen, then a BSOD with the 0x000000EA stop code regarding nv4_disp and an infinite loop. The GPU temperature doesnt hit past 55 during this, so the GPU isnt the problem. The ram however is too hot to touch without burning myself within about 30 or 45 seconds. Just to be clear, I am running all the latest updates on drivers and windows. I was running the base version of prey and version 1.2 of fear. I've tried running memtest86 on my ram for several hours and it found no errors. Here is my current configuration if it helps. If you want a minidump, i've got a few. I'm pretty sure the vid memory is just overheating, but i'd hate to go out and buy a new heatsink and ramsinks if it wont fix the problem. If you've got any pointers that might fix this, that would be great. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe BFG 7900 GT OC PCI-e 1GB Hyper X Kingston PC 3200 + 512 Centon PC 3200 550w Ultra X2 PSU Windows XP Pro SP2
here you go my friend Error message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER if you've already found this im sorry
Yep found that already. The ram is overheating I think. BFG agrees with me on that. I'm gonna be buying a new heatsink and some ramsinks for it and see if that fixes the problem. Gonna call BFG and tell them they need to start shipping out these cards with a better heatsink since I'm about the bagilionth person to complain about this.
