- Oct 11, 2014
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My Computer has been having a problem with crashes for the past couple of months.
Whenever I start up a game, Skyrim, Strife, StarCraft 2, League of Legends, Diablo 3, Torchlight 2 or any other game, it crashes the computer. No error, no freezing, no nothing. Just a straight up crash.
Before all this, it was able to run any and all games smoothly. I could play Skyrim set to high, with a couple things turned down, like occlusion, water effects turned down some and the draw distance reduced to medium. Everything else would be set on high, and it would run perfectly fine, 60-85 FPS.
For the last 3-4 months, the performance of the computer seems to have degraded to a state where even loading into any game's menu is capable of causing a crash.
I bought this system pre-built about 4 years ago and have changed up everything aside from the PSU and the Fans. Motherboard has been changed, GPU, CPU, HDD, RAM.
My system build is
CPU - AMD Athlon 64x2 5200+ 2.86 GHZ
GPU - Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Mobo - ASRock N68C-GS FX
RAM - 2 GB Kingston KVR533DN ( 2X 1GB chips)
PSU - ULTRA ATX - X-ULT500p 500w
There are 2 HDD in this rig.
1.5 TB secondary Drive for movies, shows, storage basically.
500 GB Primary drive that has windows and all software installed into it.
I've run Memtest, no issues.
I've tried underclocking the GPU, because I was informed that the 550Ti with it's factory OC does tend to cause problems.
I've had this PSU for the past 4 years, and after upgrading my old card to this one I have now, I have never had any issues before.
I've cleaned out my entire case, blown out all the dust, wiped down all the fan windows, cleaned out all the dust and dirt that could have been hiding in any of the nooks, thinking it might have been a heat issue, but that's not it either.
CPUtemp and GPUtemp have both given me readings of 48 degree's highest on the CPU and 56 Degree's Highest on the GPU.
It used to be blue screens first, but that was remedied with an update to the GPU driver. A good solid 8 months of no problems after that, and now suddenly, there are crashing issues. Not even errors, but straight out crashes.
I'm at my wits end, and I'm suspecting that it's either a GPU issue or a PSU issue. I just want to know what it might be before I throw money where it's not needed.
Thank you for any and all help.
Whenever I start up a game, Skyrim, Strife, StarCraft 2, League of Legends, Diablo 3, Torchlight 2 or any other game, it crashes the computer. No error, no freezing, no nothing. Just a straight up crash.
Before all this, it was able to run any and all games smoothly. I could play Skyrim set to high, with a couple things turned down, like occlusion, water effects turned down some and the draw distance reduced to medium. Everything else would be set on high, and it would run perfectly fine, 60-85 FPS.
For the last 3-4 months, the performance of the computer seems to have degraded to a state where even loading into any game's menu is capable of causing a crash.
I bought this system pre-built about 4 years ago and have changed up everything aside from the PSU and the Fans. Motherboard has been changed, GPU, CPU, HDD, RAM.
My system build is
CPU - AMD Athlon 64x2 5200+ 2.86 GHZ
GPU - Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Mobo - ASRock N68C-GS FX
RAM - 2 GB Kingston KVR533DN ( 2X 1GB chips)
PSU - ULTRA ATX - X-ULT500p 500w
There are 2 HDD in this rig.
1.5 TB secondary Drive for movies, shows, storage basically.
500 GB Primary drive that has windows and all software installed into it.
I've run Memtest, no issues.
I've tried underclocking the GPU, because I was informed that the 550Ti with it's factory OC does tend to cause problems.
I've had this PSU for the past 4 years, and after upgrading my old card to this one I have now, I have never had any issues before.
I've cleaned out my entire case, blown out all the dust, wiped down all the fan windows, cleaned out all the dust and dirt that could have been hiding in any of the nooks, thinking it might have been a heat issue, but that's not it either.
CPUtemp and GPUtemp have both given me readings of 48 degree's highest on the CPU and 56 Degree's Highest on the GPU.
It used to be blue screens first, but that was remedied with an update to the GPU driver. A good solid 8 months of no problems after that, and now suddenly, there are crashing issues. Not even errors, but straight out crashes.
I'm at my wits end, and I'm suspecting that it's either a GPU issue or a PSU issue. I just want to know what it might be before I throw money where it's not needed.
Thank you for any and all help.
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