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| Thread ID: 108874 | 2010-04-15 06:04:00 | Computer Crashes During Gaming HELP PLEASE (new at this) | pamaedude (15728) | Press F1 |
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| 876815 | 2010-04-15 06:04:00 | A few months ago I bought the XFX Radeon HD 4850. I installed it updated everything on my computer and started playing. For 2 weeks I played games like Crysis, Warhammer Dawn of War II, Warcraft III, Counter-Strike Source and everything seemed perfect. No lag and the computer didnt crash at all, even if i played for hours. (the first day i drowned myself in gaming, yes i'm ashamed) But one day it started crashing randomly. It ONLY crashes during gaming, doesn't matter what game, even on warcraft III. It seems to me its completely random. Sometimes i can game for 2 hours without any problems, other times it'll last only a few minutes. Its getting worse and worse i believe. When it crashes the screen gets scrambled and the sound loops and then most of the time it restarts the whole computer, sometimes it'll go to blue screen of death with IQRL_Not_Less_or_equal with a bunch of numbers. PLEASE HELP. I have no idea what could possibly be doing this. Especially out of the blue when it was working fine before heres some basic info on my computer: 1.) Intel 2 quad core 2.) Elitegroup Motherboard 3.) 2 1gb RAM 4.) Windows Vista 32- bit 5.) XFX Radeon HD 4850 6.) 500 watt amtec |
pamaedude (15728) | ||
| 876816 | 2010-04-15 06:10:00 | When the blue screen appears is a file name mentioned? Probably sound drivers but more info needed. Get hijack this and post a log. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 876817 | 2010-04-15 06:17:00 | ill post the log tomorrow afternoon. I didnt change the sound driver at all since i installed the Graphics card, should that really be a problem? and no file name was mentioned. it did give some numbers though: 0x0000000a (0x00000058 0x0000001f 0x00000000 0x824c798f) |
pamaedude (15728) | ||
| 876818 | 2010-04-15 06:22:00 | Drivers can get corrupt due to faulty memory modules. Drivers can change due to windows updates and etc. Get back to the collective helpers here when you are able to. And welcome by the way. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 876819 | 2010-04-15 06:26:00 | Is Vista update to date (is SP1 and 2 installed) as well? Does it crash in games only?? Or in windows as well? Whats the model of the motherboard? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 876820 | 2010-04-15 06:26:00 | i updated everything possible according to the Vista automatics updates. Crashes in game only. the motherboard is EliteGroup 671T-M thanks. these computer problems drive me up the wall. i'll try to post the hijackthis asap tomorrow |
pamaedude (15728) | ||
| 876821 | 2010-04-15 06:49:00 | Boot into windows, go to start/run type eventvwr.msc. Click on the + by windows log. Click on system, look on the right for any errors or bugcheck entries. If there are any there, dbl click on them, highlight what it says then press ctrl-c to copy whatever, then paste it here - press ctrl-v. Is this a clean install of vista?? You didnt upgrade from a previous version of windows did you, or update the CPU on this system, while vista was installed? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 876822 | 2010-04-15 09:50:00 | Might be overheating or worst case the card is stuffed. Maybe open up the case and see if there's lots of dust in the video card fan which you could clear. Check the CPU fan as well. |
Orca (3098) | ||
| 876823 | 2010-04-15 12:51:00 | If you get the BSOD there will be a dump file generated in C:\WINDOWS\Minidump. To read the file you need the debugging tools: www.microsoft.com either 32 or 64 bit. Once installed put this in the Symbols path (File > Symbols): SRV*c:\symbols*msdl.microsoft.com After that open the dump file from the Minidump folder (File > Open Crash Dump). Give it a few min to download the symbols it needs etc, when all looks loaded click on '!analyze -v' and it'll give you more info. After that you should have the faulting module/driver name and can go from there :) Good luck... |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 876824 | 2010-04-15 19:38:00 | Might be overheating or worst case the card is stuffed. Maybe open up the case and see if there's lots of dust in the video card fan which you could clear. Check the CPU fan as well. no its not that, i jsut cleaned it before i joined this forum yesterday. everythings dust free pretty much. |
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