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17th March 2008, 11:22 | #1 |
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| pc blocks when gaming In December I bought some new hardware. During 2 months I had no problems playing games like Crysis, NFS Pro Street or Colin McRae Dirt but since 2 weeks it happened several times that the pc blocked completely when playing Crysis or NFS. The screen freezes and the sound hangs. I can only do a reset. I don't get any error, bluescreen or log in the event log. The temps seem ok, gpu max 48° (checked with Asus Smartdoctor) cpu max 47° (checked with CoreTemp) Runned memtest without any errors. Any idea what could cause this problems? OS: Win Xp Prp with all patches E6750 with boxed cooler 2 gig value ram Asus P5K Asus 8800GT with Glaciator cooler Samsung 500 gb Coolermaster 550W psu Coolermaster Stacker with 3x120mm +80mm + Crossflow fans
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17th March 2008, 12:00 | #2 |
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| did you change any hardware or software (drivers) since first install?
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17th March 2008, 13:17 | #3 |
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| no, that is the strange thing, I didn't change anything
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17th March 2008, 14:15 | #4 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| short circuit between mobo & case, dust somewhere, a cable broken/not plugged in all too good. Can't think of anything else really. You're saying the PC blocks completely, no auto-reset or something, that would count out the PSU. Can you try with another VGA card maybe? see what that will do?
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17th March 2008, 14:52 | #5 |
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| no other vga card available no dust, all cables are fine and didn't move since the install in December. On the ****** forums I found a lot of guys complaining about bluescreens and black screens (monitor goes into standby) and a new version of the drivers 174.31 seemed to solve the issues. I think I will try those drivers.
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17th March 2008, 15:04 | #6 |
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| ha! bad forums those
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17th March 2008, 15:49 | #7 |
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| oeps I didn't know that we could mention there name here.
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17th March 2008, 16:17 | #8 |
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| try posting links to madshrimps or typing madshrimps at their forums I have no clue why we're are censored there, but least thing we can do is return the "favor"
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18th March 2008, 18:49 | #9 |
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| ok didn't have the time yet to test the other drivers but I have been reading on the Asus forums and there are people with simular problems. One of the users advised to downclock the Memory speed of the card. I'm going to test it rightaway.
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20th March 2008, 13:14 | #10 |
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| ok, yesterday I was able to game for severel hours without any problems with the mem speed at 1752 instead of the default 1800MHz. I contacted Tones about this a I can return the card. Now I don't know what to do, swap it with another 8800 GT (Asus in not in stock) or upgrade to a 8800 GTS.
__________________ Asus P5K | Intel C2D E6750 | 2 GB DDR2 | PNY 8800GT| Samsung 500 GB| Lacie 500Gb ext | LG 4163B DVDrw | Samsung 206BW | CM Stacker | CM Real Power 550 | CM Crossflow | 3 x 120 mm Blue Led | 1 80 mm |
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