Recent content by Rragar

I just thought about something else. Are your drivers up-to-date? There's been known excessive heat issues for certain NVidia products, directly caused by specific driver versions. And also, this is less likely, but maybe you got a defective gpu. They are known to run hotter (among other...

Dying graphics card, I've had this before. Twice. When they're about to give up, you'll start getting driver crashes and visual artifacts like the ones you described. They may also start running at unreasonably high temperatures at idle, and will also cause the boot problems you described...

You could upgrade the RAM and the hard drives. One possibility, would be to swap the hard drive for a faster one (either 7200 RPM or SSD). A Solid State Drive will represent a vast improvement in this regard, but will also be rather expensive. Both will, of course, grant you faster data...

I would suspect your internet adapter is degraded. If you formatted and reinstalled everything from scratch, then that would be sufficient proof that you're not being affected by a corrupt driver or any other software issues. Here's something for you to test. Disable your wireless internet...

I was thinking... one way to tell for certain whether it's hardware of software, would be to create a Linux bootable CD or USB. Launch with that OS, try it for a while, and see if your problem reappears. If it does, then it's got to be hardware. If not, then it's either Windows, a bad driver...

terms5, does Maya require or recommend RAID 0? I'm asking because I believe a certain tool from Adobe does. If so, that would help narrow the possible candidates.