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Error! help
« on: March 10, 2016, 13:50 »
I get this '' VGA no signal '' error every once in a while.I can sense it when im on youtube for example and its freezing/not responding properly for couple seconds and alt-tabs are slow.Pc shuts down and when I restart it makes the starting beep sound but unable to do so.After a few times it stops trying to boot.Also when its struggling to restart theres an odd sound from inside.

When this first happened i thought cables are not connected right and somehow loose I made sure of it and it didnt happen for a while , but now i think it might be something else.help appreciated

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2016, 13:57 »
Looks like your GPU might be dying. Try to stress test it by running a benchmark, Unigine Heaven for example.

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2016, 14:14 »
The strange noise coming from your graphic card? If you are not sure, check it out somehow, cause if it's coming from your HDD, it is most likely bad sectors. I had the same with my old hdd, exact same problems that you described, and when it runs on a bad sector, you can hear the spin drive motor stop and retry. If it happens during some intense running process like flashplayer, or fucks up some driver files, like your vga card's driver, almost always makes the file system corrupted, and after restart windows can't load in. The not responding plugincontainer.exe under the firefox process and the undue long "hangtimes" are usually Hdd problems.

If you use SSD or you are sure it's not the case, and the noise coming from elsewhere, just forget about this post. :)
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Re: Error! help
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2016, 14:42 »
So many things going on here.

But first, what PC or notebook do you have? Specs and brand (if not custom build), please.

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2016, 14:55 »
Looks like your GPU might be dying. Try to stress test it by running a benchmark, Unigine Heaven for example.

Thanks for reply I will do that and let you know.

The strange noise coming from your graphic card?

It lasts like half a second so I couldnt determine where the sound came from but bad sector scenerio can be the case although 1 month ago I searched HDD for bad sectors and it found none since its somewhat new

So many things going on here.

But first, what PC or notebook do you have? Specs and brand (if not custom build), please.

Its a custom build pc.

Windows 7 ultimate x64 SP 1

Intel core2 Duo CPU E 6750 @ 2.66 ghz

4 gb ram

NVIDIA Geforce GT 430

Let me know if u would like to know something else.thanks for help
« Last Edit: March 10, 2016, 15:08 by 811 »

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2016, 15:01 »
If it happens during some intense running process like flashplayer, or fucks up some driver files, like your vga card's driver, almost always makes the file system corrupted, and after restart windows can't load in.

Also yes it always happened when I play 2 games together with youtube on background.So how can I fix these corrupted files?

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2016, 15:07 »
my Geforce GT 430 is higher than Geforce 8 series right? otherwise I do not meet the system requirements for Unigine Heaven :)

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2016, 15:18 »
GT 430 is like 6 years old, your CPU is from 2007.

You said your PC is slow or is freezing. When was the last time you cleaned it from dust and reinstalled Windows?
Having Windows for long period of time makes it messy and slow.
Having lot of dust inside your PC (coolers, fans) makes it overheat and overheating makes PC slow, can make it freeze or turn off (safety reasons).
When your PC is idle or when browsing web, open task manager and check CPU's usage.

The starting beep, is it just one beep that's always there? If there's something wrong with your HW, some sequence of beeps tells you what's wrong - in such a case you need to find manual for your motherboard.

"The odd" sound, if you could find its source... You can simply open your PC case and place your ear close :)
I think I don't need to write this but anyway: Be carefull, do not touch anything inside your PC while it is running. Also while listening don't get your hair stucked in some fan.

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2016, 15:30 »
my Geforce GT 430 is higher than Geforce 8 series right? otherwise I do not meet the system requirements for Unigine Heaven :)

http://www.geforce.com/games-applications/pc-applications/Unigine-Heaven-2/description

" Heaven is a great showcase for tessellation, a key feature of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 400 series GPUs."

Just give it a try :)

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2016, 15:40 »
Just try it and see what happens. It should work.

Do you have latest nvidia drivers installed?
« Last Edit: March 10, 2016, 15:42 by cen »

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2016, 15:43 »
GT 430 is like 6 years old, your CPU is from 2007.

You said your PC is slow or is freezing. When was the last time you cleaned it from dust and reinstalled Windows?
Having Windows for long period of time makes it messy and slow.
Having lot of dust inside your PC (coolers, fans) makes it overheat and overheating makes PC slow, can make it freeze or turn off (safety reasons).
When your PC is idle or when browsing web, open task manager and check CPU's usage.

The starting beep, is it just one beep that's always there? If there's something wrong with your HW, some sequence of beeps tells you what's wrong - in such a case you need to find manual for your motherboard.

"The odd" sound, if you could find its source... You can simply open your PC case and place your ear close :)
I think I don't need to write this but anyway: Be carefull, do not touch anything inside your PC while it is running. Also while listening don't get your hair stucked in some fan.

My pc works perfectly fine its not slow or freezing constantly just before this error. I tried to describe how I sense it.

I did clean the fans and reinstalled windows I do those regularly.

The one beep is always there but when this problem occurs it goes like Beep-restart-beep-restart cycle.As for the sound I think its HDD just starting to boot and failing to do so and trying again kind of noise I guess its normal.

Just try it and see what happens. It should work.

thank you.

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2016, 15:43 »
@cen I do have the latest drivers.
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Re: Error! help
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2016, 15:57 »
I just ran Unigine Heaven on extreme for 5 minutes.Temperature was around 70 celcius.Min fps : 3 max fps : 9 it was laggy but the problem didnt occur.What should we know from this? :)
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Re: Error! help
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2016, 16:41 »
Not much. I was hoping your PC would crash. :P

How often do you get this error?

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Re: Error! help
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2016, 16:54 »
Not much. I was hoping your PC would crash. :P

How often do you get this error?

3 times this week.but total of 5-6 in last 30 days.something u can advice me to do / check?