10-02-2009, 10:52 AM
Hello,
Vista and 7 use methods to keep your system running in basic VGASafe mode in the case the video adapter fails. This prevents the computer from completely locking up or crashing. It's saying that your video card (or the installed driver) said "Whoa, something is seriously wrong here; I'm dead" which usually points to hardware fault on the card or the system bus. The system is recognizing your card by name.
I would first say bad card (overheating issue usually) but this can also be caused by cpu/memory problems or bad chipset drivers. Windows 7 default drivers should be fairly stable but chipset drivers (depends on your motherboard) or a memory test (memtest86+) would be the best bet to try before replacing hardware.
If your Windows 7 system made some minidump files (\windows\minidump\*) you can send one of the latest bluescreen crash dumps (dated) to me and I will see what it says caused the problem. If you have a full kernel dump, that's even better, but much larger. [ \Windows\MEMORY.DMP ]
Further Info About Bugcheck 116...
Bug Check 0x116: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
The VIDEO_TDR_ ERROR bug check has a value of 0x00000116. This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
Windows 6.x will try to poll the video card at regular intervals and if the hardware does not respond, it will try to issue a soft reset for the video card only (detaches it from the system and issues a command to reset). If the card is so FUBAR'd it does not respond, you get the blue screen crash. If it does respond, the driver can back it down to that safe mode video just to keep you running (without fancy features or accelleration or gaming).
Vista and 7 use methods to keep your system running in basic VGASafe mode in the case the video adapter fails. This prevents the computer from completely locking up or crashing. It's saying that your video card (or the installed driver) said "Whoa, something is seriously wrong here; I'm dead" which usually points to hardware fault on the card or the system bus. The system is recognizing your card by name.
I would first say bad card (overheating issue usually) but this can also be caused by cpu/memory problems or bad chipset drivers. Windows 7 default drivers should be fairly stable but chipset drivers (depends on your motherboard) or a memory test (memtest86+) would be the best bet to try before replacing hardware.
If your Windows 7 system made some minidump files (\windows\minidump\*) you can send one of the latest bluescreen crash dumps (dated) to me and I will see what it says caused the problem. If you have a full kernel dump, that's even better, but much larger. [ \Windows\MEMORY.DMP ]
Further Info About Bugcheck 116...
Bug Check 0x116: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
The VIDEO_TDR_ ERROR bug check has a value of 0x00000116. This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
Windows 6.x will try to poll the video card at regular intervals and if the hardware does not respond, it will try to issue a soft reset for the video card only (detaches it from the system and issues a command to reset). If the card is so FUBAR'd it does not respond, you get the blue screen crash. If it does respond, the driver can back it down to that safe mode video just to keep you running (without fancy features or accelleration or gaming).