Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 crashing games?

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I've been having very strange crashes when trying to play games on my system. Randomly the game will freeze and my LCD monitor will claim that it no longer has a video signal. I'll hear sound thrashing for a few minutes and then the computer will reset itself. I'm using the 163.75 beta drivers. I've been having a hell of a time with this. I'm even RMA'ing my memory. System specs should be part of my signature. Any help or ideas is greatly appreciated.
 
Guess not...

Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 F6 BIOS
4GB Kingstong HyperX 800mhz DDR2 Memory (2x1GB x2)
500GB Samsung SpinPoint T SATA HD
16x Samsung SATA DVD-Burner
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit (all updates/hotfixes)
PNY XLR8 Overclocked 8800GTX (factory overclocked by PNY with 163.75 drivers)
onboard Intel HD Audio
BenQ FP93GX LCD monitor
 
What CPU do you have?

I have a DQ6 & have been unable to get either 2gb or 4gb in dual channel working.
Mine will freeze in games too. The only way I got it to work perfectly was running 2GB in single channel(memory in different colored slots)

 
Where exactly is this thrashing sound coming from though? Your hard drive perhaps? I once had a drive that did this, it would try to access a file and *sometimes* it couldnt then the thing would make clicking clanking sounds and never recover till i reboot, it wasnt my windows OS drive though, i imagine if it was then it would have reboot the comp.

I have this board also, no probs here and overclocks like crazy with a e6300 and a couple of sticks of old patriot 1.8V 2gb ddr2 667 that ive had stable as high as ddr2 864, using a 1:2 divider.

ps. i have had 2 samsung 160gb drives fail on me,... just sayin

 
Didn't you run a program like memtest86+ to see if it was the Ram? Case heat can cause a crash like your describing, after my OC my case got really hot inside and it crashed and then restarted after it cooled down. Theres soo many things it could be, did you get any blue screens and if so what error code did you get?
 
D'oh, I have a Q6600 not overclocked. Memtest86+ won't run but Windows Memory Diagnsotic Extended test completed without errors. The thrashing is from my speakers. The sound just loops over and over. I think I may have fixed the crash in Episode Two by turning on VSync
 


Uhh I never said you that did. :heink: Have another look at my post, "my OC". Just because you haven't OC'ed you PC doesn't mean that it can't get hot in your case. That looping sound is most likely your sound card drivers not playing nice with Vista. You never ansered my question, did you get a blue screen?
 
No blue screen, only the monitor saying it didn't have a signal and then the sounds looping and thrashing. I've got the latest realtek HD audio drivers. Enabling Vsync seems to have solved the crashing, at least in HL2: Episode Two. I played for two hours without a single crash, when I used to only be able to play for five to twenty minutes.
 


If you have to enable Vsync to fix the problem for any game then the problem is with your graphics card or its drivers. Are you running any sort of monitor utility like Magic Tune, these programs have been know to interfear with any video card drivers?
 
Nope, nothing like that. It's gotta be Nvidia's drivers. Still no good. It's 163.75 the drivers "optimized" for Episode Two.
 
I have heard from many that Vista Ultimate 64 is not very friendly with any video card drivers designed for a 32bit OS. Most games are 32bit, except the 64bit version of Crysis 64.
 
Actually Crysis 64 bit demo won't run... also I get a signal drop in that game unless I force vsync with Nvidia's drivers. Very very odd...
 
Hmm... my frequency is only 60hz.. Not sure what could be increasing the monitor frequency without forcing vsync...
 
CPU-Z Screen grabs:
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Here's another:
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Just curious how to manually set my memory to 800mhz, 4-4-4-12 and 2.0v timings to see if it's really a memory issue causing the signal loss in games that I haven't forced vsync on. Ctrl F1 opens up a lot of options I don't understand. If someone could go through each advanced option and tell me the setting to use to set this Kingston memory at it's defaults (no overclocking) that'd be great.
 
I have a very similar problem to yours. I've usually powered down pretty quickly, for fear it's a hardware issue, but when I leave it for awhile trying to break out of the process, the graphics go haywire. Never had the computer shut itself down. I do get the looping sound though - this is fairly common in my experience when a game crashes or the computer lags out.

I'm using a GigaByte GA-M57SLI-S4, with one PNY 8600 GT, thats about the only similarities between my system and yours. I'm using 32bit Windows XP, and an AMD-based system.
 
Well I'm wondering if it's just bad drivers too. bccode 116 is what keeps being returned and it seems to be driver related. go nvidia...
 
Once again, error in nvldkkm.sys was returned on a blue screen. This time while playing Jericho. Really frustrating... not sure what to do...
 


You should underclock your 8800 GTX and see if that make a difference. I don't think its the Nvidia drivers, its hardware. Can you still RMA the 8800?
 


What type of warranty do you have with your PNY 8800 GTX? Tell them the problems that you are having, they might be able to help you.
 
The warranty is five years. I'm going to e-mail them tomorrow. I've tried setting the PCI-e frequency to 100mhz manually. I didn't have time to test it but upon starting my computer today I got a BSOD I couldn't record, it then restarted and seems to be okay... We'll see what happens...
 
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