Hi my name is Joe
For the last 3-4 months I have been troubleshooting by myself a issue i have been having with my PC
Here is the Issue, While playing ANY game WoW,Heroes of Newerth, Even some flash games my PC will lock up and sometimes crash usually after 5-7 minutes of gameplay.It seems like while this occurs my fans (all my fans) not just video or CPU seem to increase greatly in speed. Sometimes the fault is resolved and I will go back into normal gameplay, But once the fault begins to occur it will happen every 30s or so..and then result it a BSOD.. Most of the BSOD errors I have looked into point to the hard drive not being able to read something for a temporary amount of time.
Here are my Specs
Vista Home Premium 32bit
Intel Quad Core at 2.66ghz OCed to 2.9 running at 42C under load
Striker Extreme 680i Mobo
Aprevia 680 Watt PSU
Nvidia EVGA 260GTX SC edition
Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Here is what I have done to try to resolve it.
New Video card 260gtx
New Harddrive Western Digitial Velioraptor And
4 New gigs of ram all MEMtested along with the harddrive being chkdsk'd multiple times
Fresh Install of Vista TWICE
Now heres the funny thing...the first 260gtx I had I thought might have been a problem because most of these lockups are card or driver related... So I got a realllly old 7600 Nvidia out (PCI) as oppossed to PCI-E with the 260X
Everything ran excellent, except for the fact that I can't run anything on anything more then lowest settings due to the power of that card.
Got my 260gtx back from RMA plugged it in and realized my top PCI-E slot had broken (the Clip that helps hold it in place was)
So I moved it to another PCI-E slot, booted and the same lock up is occuring different card,different slot
Could my PSU be causing the issues by not having enough power under load in game and shutting down the card? My CPU is barely ever over 40% usage and has always maintained a low temp So I highly doubt its that..Or could it be the mobo?
In desperate need of help -Joe
For the last 3-4 months I have been troubleshooting by myself a issue i have been having with my PC
Here is the Issue, While playing ANY game WoW,Heroes of Newerth, Even some flash games my PC will lock up and sometimes crash usually after 5-7 minutes of gameplay.It seems like while this occurs my fans (all my fans) not just video or CPU seem to increase greatly in speed. Sometimes the fault is resolved and I will go back into normal gameplay, But once the fault begins to occur it will happen every 30s or so..and then result it a BSOD.. Most of the BSOD errors I have looked into point to the hard drive not being able to read something for a temporary amount of time.
Here are my Specs
Vista Home Premium 32bit
Intel Quad Core at 2.66ghz OCed to 2.9 running at 42C under load
Striker Extreme 680i Mobo
Aprevia 680 Watt PSU
Nvidia EVGA 260GTX SC edition
Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Here is what I have done to try to resolve it.
New Video card 260gtx
New Harddrive Western Digitial Velioraptor And
4 New gigs of ram all MEMtested along with the harddrive being chkdsk'd multiple times
Fresh Install of Vista TWICE
Now heres the funny thing...the first 260gtx I had I thought might have been a problem because most of these lockups are card or driver related... So I got a realllly old 7600 Nvidia out (PCI) as oppossed to PCI-E with the 260X
Everything ran excellent, except for the fact that I can't run anything on anything more then lowest settings due to the power of that card.
Got my 260gtx back from RMA plugged it in and realized my top PCI-E slot had broken (the Clip that helps hold it in place was)
So I moved it to another PCI-E slot, booted and the same lock up is occuring different card,different slot
Could my PSU be causing the issues by not having enough power under load in game and shutting down the card? My CPU is barely ever over 40% usage and has always maintained a low temp So I highly doubt its that..Or could it be the mobo?
In desperate need of help -Joe