Guild Wars 2

ok so, here I am to join the melee….. same generic description of everyone elses issues, although I think the exact mechanics of the crash slightly differ person to person for whatever reason. (Error report log / straight to blue screen / hard lockup)….

Seems to have really manifest itself over perhaps the last month or so. Perhaps the dragon bash angered the Elders enough that they’ve turned to hacking idk. Anyway, to recap ive tried drivers, chkdsk with full options (usually to repair the hard resets ><), checked temps on everything, the only event viewer stuff I see is the kernel power event item for the hard reset.

Suffice it to say I know my PC is not the issue, ive attempted to force it to crash in any other way possible and produce a bsod with no result. My system is pretty custom so if I get the same result as a stamped out i7 or i5 then its definitely not a hardware thing. The only common factor to any of these posts is that I too have a gtx 660. To further remove heat as an issue my GTX660 is cut down to fit a pci-e 8x slot and runs about 20 degrees cooler than spec due to my fan placement. I frequently see 35-40C under full load and still get resets.

Heres my spec:
Supermicro Superserver rebuilt to Coolermaster Storm Chassis
Dual Quad Core Xeon 3.0’s, 8GB ECC FB-DIMMs,
GTX660 modified ~20 pins removed to fit PCI-E 8x
SB Audigy functional in downclocked PCI-X slot
P/S is 850 watts, Win 7 Ult 64

There is not a card in my PC designed to fit in anything its attached to (including the mainboard) and it works perfectly for anything except GW2.