Posted: 10/2/2011 9:46:35 PM EDT
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I have a desktop that is less than a month old that started freezing today whenever I started up a level of a graphic intensive game. The cutscenes are fine, but when any real rendering happens, the screen freezes and nothing short of pressing the power button will fix it. CtrlAltDel doesnt work, and neither does CtrlShiftEsc. Nothing is overclocked After messing with it for a bit, I did a full clean install of Windows 7 64bit and its having the same issues  Does it sound like a bum power supply to you guys, or maybe video card? ETA Last time I shut it off, when I hit the power button to turn it back on, it shut back down after about 3 seconds... Specs: CPU i5-2500k GPU Geforce 560ti 1gb Ram 8gb DDR3-1600 PSU 850w Thermaltake something or other |
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Quoted: What version of DirectX are you running? Up to date video card drivers? Nvidia has some beta drivers out that you should take a look at. The beta drivers were downloaded a couple days ago so that I could play BF3, but I rolled them back when I first started having this issue. My Direct X is current too. |
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Guaranteed heat issue with graphics card. Could be chip creep as well, exacerbated by the heat. Fixable if you have the knowhow, a heat gun, and some aluminum foil.
EDIT: Oh, it's a new computer. Could still be heat/creep but I'd look into the warranty on the graphics card as that is the problem regardless. |
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Download Core Temp and see what your cpu temps are.
The shutoff 3 seconds after power on tells me either cpu is overheating, or PSU is bad. |
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Using a fan to blow air inside the open case ill usually tell you if it was an overheating issue.
. if you want to try some alternate drivers- check out Omega drivers. http://www.omegadrivers.net/ Been around fro at least 5 or 6 years, and I've had good luck with them. |
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Could be a thermal issue. Take off the side panel and point a house fan at the case. It could also be a power supply under current. What are your specs? A small case can cause heat to build up.
My new build... Asus P8Z68-V Pro 2600K 8 gigs corsairVengece MSI 560 twin frozer pc power and cooling 750 silencer Corsair water cooling... 800D case...lots of room! |
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Download Core Temp and see what your cpu temps are. The shutoff 3 seconds after power on tells me either cpu is overheating, or PSU is bad. |
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Quoted: Download Core Temp and see what your cpu temps are. The shutoff 3 seconds after power on tells me either cpu is overheating, or PSU is bad. The average of each core is 37C I used core temp while getting it to freeze and nothing got very high. Its frustrating since I've been gaming on this thing pretty hard since I got it and its been awesome til now  |
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Download Core Temp and see what your cpu temps are. The shutoff 3 seconds after power on tells me either cpu is overheating, or PSU is bad. This. Any time I've ever had a pc lock up to where whatever is on the screen just freezes, and you have to force power off and restart, the CPU was over heating. If it has good cooling, bad CPU. |
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remove all ram sticks but one And swap them all through the computer. The machine is spuriously failing POST. Then I would look at the power supply. Reseating the RAM could have a positive effect, but test them one stick at a time. Are you running PHYSX on the CPU or the Video Card? |
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I'm leaning towards graphics cards or memory. As one other person said, if you have multiple sticks of ram, take them all out but one. If the same thing happens, take that one out and put another one in it's place so leaving you with still only one stick of ram.
if you happen to have a spare graphics card, see if you can use that or if you maybe have onboard video see if you can use that and have the same results. IIRC, you may want to disable on board video if you running a graphics card as that could cause a conflict? I don't think heat is the issue. Most new computers are pretty smart and if the heat is a problem, it shuts itself off before damage can be done. |
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Quoted: memtestx86 Also check the temps on the vid card if you haven't already. Actually just ran that exact same program last night, the memory is fine. switched the sticks out too, to no avail. All of the temperatures are fine, no overheating here. Downloading new drivers for the 275 that I just plugged in, hopefully thats the issue. |
| Mine did that with an nVida 250 card once I bumped the PCI bus speed to around 109/110 Mhz, Bumping it back down to 100Mhz fixed it, I can overclock the 485 without issue, though it's on a new ASUS motherboard. The old motherboard could OC memory and CPU fine, but couldn't make a clean clock for the PCI bus. |
