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| Thread ID: 57711 | 2005-05-10 10:23:00 | PC locks solid when playing CS: Source and GTA vice city | edordead (8077) | Press F1 |
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| 353808 | 2005-05-10 10:23:00 | My freezes when playing these two games, it seems to work on others but it's pretty intermittent and usually takes about 10-15 minutes before it locks and I have to do a cold reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing and the only thing that works is turning the power of and on again. I've tested it with each memory stick separately and even bought a new power supply so I'm pretty much fresh out of ideas. My system is; Athlon XP Mobile 2600 1gb RAM, 256 corsair pc2700, 256 Twinmos pc3200, 512 Viking pc3200 (this sounds bad but I have run memtest) ATI Radeon 9700 pro ABIT KD7 mainboard Magna 500 watt power (new, bought to solve issue) 80gb Western Digital HD Running XP pro SP2 If anyone has suggestions I'd be very grateful, I've run memtest and CPU burn-in and both came out fine. I'm a little worried that it may be a graphics card problem as it's a year old and came from a friend's machine. |
edordead (8077) | ||
| 353809 | 2005-05-10 10:46:00 | Only suggestions I have are... 1) ensure you have the latest drivers 2) ensure steam is updated to the latest versions... there has been a recent major update. 3) if it's graphics card related check the temp. of your card if u can. If you're over-clocking then it could be heat related. Other than that I don't have any other suggestions... cheers chiefnz |
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| 353810 | 2005-05-10 11:02:00 | Thanks mate, it's got me a little bit stumped to be honest. Have you got any suggestions for how I can check the temp of the graphics card? | edordead (8077) | ||
| 353811 | 2005-05-10 12:03:00 | To help you monitor your temps, go to www.3degs.net and download Motherboard Monitor 5 | *Sparky* (311) | ||
| 353812 | 2005-05-10 12:26:00 | Thanks boss, i'll do that tonight and see what it says. | edordead (8077) | ||
| 353813 | 2005-05-13 10:54:00 | Right, I didn't have as much time as i would have liked but turned of write combining and checked the temps of the MB and CPU after 10 minutes of CS: source. They got to 45c so I think that's ok. I don't have a way of checking the graphics card temp but it felt (I know, not scientific but it'll do) the same as the CPU. Still froze though so I've completly removed the drivers using the ATI uninstall facility and downloaded new drivers from 3d guru. These are installed and waiting further testing. | edordead (8077) | ||
| 353814 | 2005-05-14 00:31:00 | Yeah ok, I was having a similar problem couple of months ago, and it turned out to be a memory problem (which I only discovered after testing the 2nd time) Do you get any MS Error message dialog boxes at all? If you do what does it say? If you don't.. when it happens again.. check the event viewer in control panel, it should tell you what the problem was and could maybe point to the culprit. Do you play any other games... that don't crach the system. When I had my problem I could play Doom3 just fine but as soon as I went to CounterStrike or BFME then she'd crash. Hope that helps cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 353815 | 2005-05-16 10:35:00 | Funny you should say that, At first I was getting "memory cannot be read" error messages. I under clocked the processor a little and it went away but the freezing now doesn't give me any errors at all. I'll run memtest to death while I'm at work tomo and we'll see. Also it doesn't seem to crash in unreal tournament (the old version from 2000) but then it can take 20 minutes and I've usually got bored by then :). I have read as well that the chipset on my mother board (VIA KT400) has issues with the readeon 9700. A friend has a spare nForce2 board so I may end up rebuilding the machine as a fix. |
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