Thread: Freezing Randomly

Originally Posted by corc305

I have found an answer that worked for me. I was experiencing random freezing with more GPU intense programs, particularly rendering HD video files. What solved my problem was updating the bios on my video card. I tried new drivers, underclocking, overclocking, increasing fan speed, monitoring card, system, and cpu temps, nothing, but the bios updated worked, perfectly without a single problem.

Check it out, read up on it, it might work for you.

I had a XFX 8800 GTS 640mb video card with this bios information:

GPU Device Id: 0x10DE 0x0193
Version: 60.80.13.00.80
GeForce 8800 GTS VGA BIOS
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 NVIDIA Corp.
G80 Board - p356h01
Performance Level 0
Core Clk: 513.00 MHz
Mem Clk: 792.00 MHz
Shader Clk: 1188.00 MHz
Voltage: 1.30 V
Fan Speed: 100%

I conservatively updated to this bios version
GPU Device Id: 0x10DE 0x0193
Version: 60.80.13.00.82
GeForce 8800 GTS VGA BIOS
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 NVIDIA Corp.
G80 Board - p356h01
Performance Level 0
Core Clk: 550.00 MHz
Mem Clk: 900.00 MHz
Shader Clk: 1500.00 MHz
Voltage: 1.30 V
Fan Speed: 100%

Since the update the card has worked flawlessly under all stress. Bios downloads and flash utilities are available at techPowerUp! :: Video Bios Collection. Please be careful when flashing you could break your video card. For me, the risk was having to buy another card because of the freezing issue!

Good luck.

I hope this helps, I read a lot of posts with no answers. I am happy to share what worked for me.

Thanks for sharing that!!