Can't play games, need your help.

[MartinGares]

So I have this PC for about 3 years now. At the beginning everything was good. I could play any game. After 1 year something went wrong. I downloaded L4D2 via torrents, the game didn't had any viruses, it was good, but after 15 minutes of game play the screen went black and a weird sound was coming out from the system unit. I cant do anything until i press the restart button (but i need to press it twice to restart the pc)

I had Windows XP before but due to new release games which require higher OS, I updated to Win 8 (for some reason i couldn't install Win 7) [WEIRD]

Window 8 didn't change anything, if not made the black screen and noise come earlier (like 5 to 8 minutes into a game and my pc goes to hell)

Like i said before i could play games like CS 1.6, Red Alert 2 and 3, many Need for Speed games and many more.

Now i cant play anything, except CS 1.6 and CS CZ.

I can't play L4D2, CS GO, CS:S, Garry's Mod, Elite Sniper, TF2 or any other game from Steam.

So i am stuck with CS 1.6 for the past 2 years.

If you guys know what is the problem, please tell me WHAT and HOW to do it. I will so much appreciate it.


Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU (540 @ 3.07 GHz 3.07 GHz)
RAM: 4.00 GB
Video Card: DirectX 11

 

[ichigokunbaka]

have you updated biose and formated hd installed newest drivers ? try visual inspection of capacitors on video card and motherboard ,power supply works under non gaming load?

 

[MartinGares]

I will do what you said and yes, power supply works under non gaming load.

 

[Vynavill]

I'm not going to ask you why you came up with this 2 years after the issue originally came up... Anything could've come up inbetween...

Anyway, this definetly looks as a hardware fault. DO NOT UPDATE BIOS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. It might be as easy as updating a driver, but should an issue come up while it's updating, you risk frying your PC and having to re-flash the BIOS, which is a thing you don't want to do if you don't like to get your hands dirty with electronics, depending from MoBo to MoBo...

Can you please state your FULL PC specs? (also, DirectX 11 isn't your videocard, but a library...). Use tools like Everest or Speccy to get most of the information (Motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, HDD. Get models, CPU and GPU models, GPU memory, RAM capacity, speed and number of sticks, HDD model, capacity and speed). You might have to open the case for the PSU model and Wattage.

Anything under heavy load seems to crash your system, so I'd say it's something PSU related, GPU/CPU related or RAM related. We need more info to rule out everything.

 

[MartinGares]

I'm not going to ask you why you came up with this 2 years after the issue originally came up... Anything could've come up inbetween...

Anyway, this definetly looks as a hardware fault. DO NOT UPDATE BIOS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. It might be as easy as updating a driver, but should an issue come up while it's updating, you risk frying your PC and having to re-flash the BIOS, which is a thing you don't want to do if you don't like to get your hands dirty with electronics, depending from MoBo to MoBo...

Can you please state your FULL PC specs? (also, DirectX 11 isn't your videocard, but a library...). Use tools like Everest or Speccy to get most of the information (Motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, HDD. Get models, CPU and GPU models, GPU memory, RAM capacity, speed and number of sticks, HDD model, capacity and speed). You might have to open the case for the PSU model and Wattage.

Anything under heavy load seems to crash your system, so I'd say it's something PSU related, GPU/CPU related or RAM related. We need more info to rule out everything.

I used Speccy and this is the summary (if you need everything let me know i will copy-paste it because its just to much info,)

Operating System
Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i3 540 @ 3.07GHz 30 °C
Clarkdale 32nm Technology
RAM
4,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 664MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Foxconn H55MX-S Series (CPU 1) 39 °C
Graphics
W1934 (1440x900@60Hz)
1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 (Point of View) 57 °C
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 ATA Device (SATA) 41 °C
Optical Drives
ATAPI iHAS122 ATA Device
Audio
High Definition Audio Device




P.S I actually have no freaking idea why I haven't asked for help earlier... :/

 

[Vynavill]

Well, that's quite an old chipset you have there, but I don't think that's the issue.
What I'm more concerned at is the GPU temperature...is that at idle? If so, it's quite high...
Can you please confirm that by using Gpu-Z?

It would be awesome to also know your PSU's model and Wattage, but you need to open the side-panel on your case for that...

As a side note, why in the world have you got Win8's Enterprise system installed?! And evaluation at that too... I feel I already know the answer, but I'm not going to ask you for that. That's not supposed to be used from the common consumer anyway...

 

[MartinGares]

The temperature of the GPU is that high.

The win8 crap was a mistake made by a friend of my brother. the idiot should have installed win7 (to try since previously i couldnt)

About the PSU's model and Wattage i will let you know in a few hours since i have to go out now. Sorry for keeping you waiting and thank you for all your responses so far.