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 Member 2068 Level 20.25 Mar 2006 
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Freeze/sound loop in games.
Recently I have been having problems, with what I can only assume is the videocard.
When I play a game for a long period of time (Anywhere between 5-11 hours), say, Assasins Creed or World of Warcraft, after a certain period of time, the screen will completely freeze, and whatever sound was playing will loop forever. The only thing to get rid of it, is to reboot the PC. Now i've tried hard to figure out what it is, but i'm clueless as to what it could be. I tried: 1. Format the PC, everything reinstalled from scratch, but didn't help 2. Tried the latest Forceware drivers, both normal, and beta, but no results. 3. Scanned HD for problems, but didn't find any errors I checked speedfan for my PC temperatures, but it didn't show anything amazing, the only 2 it showed as red were the motherboard, and the videocard. MB at ~49, GPU ~68 idle. The rest was all relatively low ~25/30 degrees Celsius, but I was told the GPU temp is appearently normal for 8800 cards. My system is as follows: Motherboard: Asus P5N-E SLI GPU: XTF 8800 GTS 320 Mb Processor: Core2Duo 6600 RAM: 2x 1GB Buffalo I believe OS: Windows XP Home Sound: Creative SB Live! PSU: Zalman 550w None of it is overclocked, never was, and I've had this PC for over 9 months, and these crashes only started happening a few weeks ago. I cleaned the PC completely, but it didn't seem to have helped. It wasn't that dirty anyway. Any ideas on what it could be? I'll take any suggestion I can at this point. This is pretty damn annoying. Thanks. Jam it back in, in the dark.  Soldier: Prepare yourself, rebel scum!! Arngrim : (These slipshod soldiers think they can call me "rebel scum"?) |
Member 2068 Level 20.25 Mar 2006
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I tried a lot of different things, even memtest and after running that for 14 hours it found nothing, but I removed 1 stick to see if that helped, and hasn't crashed since. It could have been the ram, but perhaps not.
I was able to play for 3 days straight playing extremely long gaming sessions, sometimes over 12 hours, and it never happend again, so at least this leaves out the overheating and perhaps the videocard entirely, but today something happend again, basically instead of the screen freezing + sound loop, i got sound loop and the screen turned black, with "no input" on monitor, so not quite sure what to make of it. I'll try testing the other stick of ram see if it happens a lot with that stick. There's nowhere I can't reach. Soldier: Prepare yourself, rebel scum!! Arngrim : (These slipshod soldiers think they can call me "rebel scum"?) |
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