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| Thread ID: 47387 | 2004-07-24 13:59:00 | My computer freezes during Game Play! | Tribomb (5547) | Press F1 |
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| 255126 | 2004-07-24 13:59:00 | When I have been playing SimCity 3000 unlimited, Battlefield 1942, C&C generals, my computer freezes during game play. I can play, it does not lag and everything is fine, then all of a sudden it will freeze, it always happens. It happens after no particular period of time, I can play for five minutes or even hours, it seems to be mainly SimCity. I do not think it is a heat issue, as I said it can freeze in the first five minutes. Also I have no Spyware or viruses, I have updated them and scanned. Also, if this is any help, I can move my mouse and that is it, the keyboard wont work, the screen wont change! Any one know what’s going on??? | Tribomb (5547) | ||
| 255127 | 2004-07-24 14:04:00 | Oh, I am running Win 98SE, I have 128 MB SDRAM, AMD Duron XP, 1000 MHz. Anything else? | Tribomb (5547) | ||
| 255128 | 2004-07-24 14:26:00 | >> I do not think it is a heat issue, as I said it can freeze in the first fi . . . . More of a lack of heat issue if it keeps freezing ;) And presumably, it only "freezes" when you are doing well . (Computer sulks) Have you run memtest on it at all? It does sound random enough to be a ram problem . I have been having a similar problem here, as yet unresolved . The only common factor so far to the faults is that they invariably come just before I swear a bit . R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 255129 | 2004-07-24 14:41:00 | lol, Yeah, it is funny that, it does freeze when I am doing well! Do you mean a test to see if my RAM is corrupt? I had something to do that, but that is gone now, it was on a floppy disk... Any reconmendatons? |
Tribomb (5547) | ||
| 255130 | 2004-07-24 14:50:00 | It could be many many things,from drivers,to resource conflicts,defective hardware(memory,fans,harddrive,cpu,mobo,videocard, psu...) corrupted windows files....Heat can't be discounted untill proven otherwise. You just have to work through the list,My first action would be to disable every single entry in startup(including anti-virus,everything,all of them,every last one) and then run the game and see if the problem persists. Then i would install mbm5 to monitor the temps Then it would be time to tackle the 2 most likely hardware culprets,PSU and RAM,memtest86 is the app your thinking of that runs off the floppy....i personally prefer to just try another stick,i have next to zero faith in ram testers After that you could swap in another PSU. Then i would go to bed because its late........ |
metla (154) | ||
| 255131 | 2004-07-24 15:28:00 | >Then i would go to bed because its late........ Or early. :D We could make into a suck or blow issue. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 255132 | 2004-07-25 05:08:00 | I have three problems... I cant find mbm5 anywhere. I have only one RAM stick. I only have one PSU.... | Tribomb (5547) | ||
| 255133 | 2004-07-25 06:16:00 | Well, you can get mbm 5.36 here (www.pcworld.com) from a slightly foreign PCWorld. A quick trip here (http://www.memtest86.com/) will get you memtest 86. Unlike metla, I have great faith in ram testers ability. They can show that the ram has either passed or failed the test. The application may have a different idea. ?:| If you can change the processor speed in the bios, try raising or lowering it a LITTLE amount to see what that shows. Have fun. R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 255134 | 2004-07-25 06:42:00 | > If you can change the processor speed in the bios, > try raising or lowering it a LITTLE amount to see > what that shows. How would raising the CPU clock speed make a difference? If anything it would cause problems. Thats very vague advice, you havent even told Tribomb how to adjust his clock speed. Changing your CPU's clockspeed would be a bad idea, but in saying that if you are overclocking it would be a good idea to return the chip to stock. Try running something like Prime95 to test overall system stabilty, if your system can run the torture test for a couple of hours without a problem it would suggest that the video card is at fault. Run memtest just to make sure the RAM is fine. Next try upgrading your video card, chipset drivers. What brand of power supply do you have? Does your case have fans? Whats the airflow inside the case like? What video card to you have? Is there any dust in or around the PSU or PSU fan? What sort of cooling does your video card have? Is the cooler making contact with the core and ram properly? |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 255135 | 2004-07-25 11:13:00 | This happened to a friend of mine, so my experience is as follows: Rather than the myriad of problems it could have been, I discovered that the problem lay with the RAM brand conflicting with the motherboard. He bought some new, motherboard-manufacturer-certified RAM, and everything works fine. However, what was the last thing you did before this started happening? |
Growly (6) | ||
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