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PC crashes in games
Name: mkleigh Date: December 26, 2005 at 05:43:11 Pacific OS: xp home CPU/Ram: intel 560
Comment:
please help.
when playing games my pc just hangs and reboots and in other games they crash and i get an exe error. Have done a fresh install and still get the same problem and its driving me made now.
Graphics card is a radeon x600 sound is c media cm19880
Name: GX1 Man Date: December 26, 2005 at 06:21:09 Pacific
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Heat and bad RAM come to mind first, especially if it only happens in games.
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Response Number 2
Name: poweraid Date: December 26, 2005 at 07:03:17 Pacific
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HI:Kindly could you please post what Error are you getting ? Also have you checked out the Event viewer !!! Crashing on video games points to a bad video driver or overheating (With the video Card or with the CPU)or to a Failing or Overclocked CPU most likely.. Bon Courage..
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Response Number 3
Name: mkleigh Date: December 26, 2005 at 09:15:14 Pacific
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i have tried a different graphics card same prob.
how hot should the cpu run at? mines at 114f 45c
mb 89f 32c
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Response Number 4
Name: ham30 Date: December 26, 2005 at 12:28:04 Pacific
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Your CPU temperature is fine. Check your memory: Memtest http://www.snapfiles.com/get/memtest86.html Docmem or http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3001-2094-1534814.html
Run either one overnight. Any failures at all are unacceptable.
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Response Number 5
Name: mkleigh Date: December 26, 2005 at 13:13:58 Pacific
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cheers does memtest ever complete or just does it go round and round
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Response Number 6
Name: mkleigh Date: December 26, 2005 at 14:20:30 Pacific
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and which test should i run just the default one?
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Response Number 7
Name: ham30 Date: December 26, 2005 at 14:33:40 Pacific
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I haven't used memtest in a long time, but I think it continues to loop the tests until you stop it. Have it run all the tests and for a couple of hours 'at least', better to run it overnight.
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Response Number 8
Name: mkleigh Date: December 26, 2005 at 14:38:26 Pacific
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yeah seems to test 1 - 8 completed with no errors running test 9 now
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Response Number 9
Name: mkleigh Date: December 27, 2005 at 07:51:44 Pacific
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no errors on any test what else could it be?
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Response Number 10
Name: ham30 Date: December 27, 2005 at 09:45:24 Pacific
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If you ran the memory test overnight, that would indicate that you 'probably' do not have a hardware problem with the power supply, motherboard/CPU or memory. If it only wappens when you are playing games off an optical drive, I would suspect it.
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Response Number 11
Name: mkleigh Date: December 27, 2005 at 13:13:26 Pacific
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playing games off the c drive as well as when i play them off a cd
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Response Number 12
Name: ham30 Date: December 27, 2005 at 14:39:52 Pacific
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In that case I would tend to suspect a video adapter/driver problem. But you can cause XP to display a BSOD and an error message instead of rebooting. That might give a clue to what is causing the problem.
To have XP display the error message instead of rebooting:
1. Click Start, and then right-click My Computer. 2. Click Properties. 3. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Startup and Recovery. 4. Under System failure, click to clear the Automatically restart check box. 5. Click OK, and then click OK.
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Response Number 13
Name: mkleigh Date: December 28, 2005 at 07:35:04 Pacific
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ok have changed that will see what happens now
cheers
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Response Number 14
Name: mkleigh Date: December 28, 2005 at 09:18:15 Pacific
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i found out what was wrong
my asus mb was overclocking the graphics cars have changed the setting all ok now.
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