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| Thread ID: 87148 | 2008-02-10 08:45:00 | PC restarts randomly when im gaming | Krisby5 (13221) | Press F1 |
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| 639106 | 2008-02-10 22:34:00 | What version of the BIOS is on it?? Some BIOS updates may also fix ram compatibility issues. BIOS Version/Date:Award Software International, Inc. F9, 2/01/2008 SMBIOS: Version 2.4 I had allready downloaded the most recent release BIOS. |
Krisby5 (13221) | ||
| 639107 | 2008-02-10 22:35:00 | Thats the same as the other PC here. Its not meant to support DDR 400, but it does. (I didnt know this since the mobo was 2nd hand, and I didnt have a manual at the time). But since the CPU in it, is only 533 fsb, it only supports 266 dual channel. Any higher it wont boot, unless I change the CPU to a 800 fsb one. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 639108 | 2008-02-10 22:35:00 | I'm just assuming that your motherboard cannot handle 2+ sticks of DDR2-2 1066 ram which is a lot of bandwidth . On my old KX600 Socket A motherboard (which on paper says it perfectly supports DDR400) couldn't handle 2 sticks of DDR400 so I had to lower it to 333 which worked perfectly . There wasn't much performance difference between 400 and 333 so I didn't really care much (not too sure about 800 and 1066) . Ok,i'll have a bit of a fiddle the the BIOS memory settings . |
Krisby5 (13221) | ||
| 639109 | 2008-02-10 22:36:00 | Thats the same as the other PC here . Its not meant to support DDR 400, but it does . (I didnt know this since the mobo was 2nd hand, and I didnt have a manual at the time) . But since the CPU in it, is only 533 fsb, it only supports 266 dual channel . Any higher it wont boot, unless I change the CPU to a 800 fsb one . So Speedy,you also agree that I should try and turn my memory's speed down? |
Krisby5 (13221) | ||
| 639110 | 2008-02-10 22:36:00 | I had already downloaded the most recent release BIOS. Did you set the BIOS to its default settings, then reconfigure it. After you flashed the BIOS? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 639111 | 2008-02-10 22:39:00 | Did you set the BIOS to its default settings, then reconfigure it. After you flashed the BIOS? I put everything back to the default after I updated the BIOS,the only thing that I have changed in the BIOS is to activate the cpu fan fail warning |
Krisby5 (13221) | ||
| 639112 | 2008-02-10 22:44:00 | I would untick automatically restart, under system properties / advanced / settings (bottom one), startup and recovery. Then tell us what the BSOD says. When it crashes again. Or go to control panel / admin tools / event viewer. Look for entries under system or application. About the time it crashed. Tell us what it says, and what the name of the file / driver is. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 639113 | 2008-02-10 23:49:00 | I can't seem to get the BSOD to flash up any more but the game sometimes kicks me out to my desktop or it freezes and I have to press the restart button on my PC | Krisby5 (13221) | ||
| 639114 | 2008-02-10 23:50:00 | So Speedy,you also agree that I should try and turn my memory's speed down? I would give the memory a volt increment up! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 639115 | 2008-02-10 23:53:00 | I can't seem to get the BSOD to flash up any more but the game sometimes kicks me out to my desktop or it freezes and I have to press the restart button on my PC Did you look under event viewer? To see what maybe causing it under Application and System?? Have you installed the patches for whatever game/s? Does it show any file/s in task manager, as not responding? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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