- Apr 26, 2013
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Hello,
I recently purchased and installed Dragon Age Origins on my pc, but it would not play, and instead gave me an error message (something about a PhysX file missing). I contacted EA and they helped me resolve the problem by telling me to delete a series of files called 'origin' in different folders on my pc. I did so and when I next went onto origin it had to reinstall and update and then DAO worked perfectly fine.
However after a few hours of playing my computer crashed and gave me a blue screen
. I thought it might be a mistake and so restarted and played again, but it gave me another blue screen after about 30mins. This was odd because I could still play newer games like Skyrim and Dragon Age Inquisition for hours without problems. I got the blue screen 3 times before I started to get worried.
The next time I turned on my pc it wouldn’t switch on properly - the fans and lights would switch on, but the screen remained off. After 3 or 4 time of disconnecting the power cable and switching it on again, it eventually worked, and once it was on I could use the pc normally - browse the internet, watch videos, use office documents. But once I played any game it would just stop working properly - it will play a game for 30 minutes or so before the game would start getting lower frame rates and freezing for a few seconds and if I touched the graphics card and CPU cooler and find them both very hot - almost too hot to touch.
I ran various virus scans through Avast, Malware bytes and Comodo Firewall, but found nothing. I also updated my drivers because I realised some were outdated, but that did not fix my problem.
The next time I switched on my pc the screen remained blank again. I tried switching it on about 10 time to no avail. I eventually read somewhere online to remove my RAM and blow on them then reinstall them - and it strangely worked, my pc switched back on! I am not sure whether it was a coincident or not
I am still however still hesitant to play games for more than 30 minutes, because every time I touch my GPU/CPU cooler after that amount of time it feels really hot (though keep in mind I have no idea what temperatures are safe, so it could be alright, but I don’t want to risk it) I have also been hesitant to switch it off, in case it does not switch on again
This pc is about 1 year old now with specs as follows:
CPU: i7 2600k
GPU: R9 280x
Ram: 8gb 1600
Power Supply: corsair GS800w
126GB SSD
2 x 1tb hard drives
This pc has worked perfectly fine for the past year with no problems. Is it a software or hardware problem, or is it possibly somehow origins fault?
Thanks for any help in advance
I recently purchased and installed Dragon Age Origins on my pc, but it would not play, and instead gave me an error message (something about a PhysX file missing). I contacted EA and they helped me resolve the problem by telling me to delete a series of files called 'origin' in different folders on my pc. I did so and when I next went onto origin it had to reinstall and update and then DAO worked perfectly fine.
However after a few hours of playing my computer crashed and gave me a blue screen
. I thought it might be a mistake and so restarted and played again, but it gave me another blue screen after about 30mins. This was odd because I could still play newer games like Skyrim and Dragon Age Inquisition for hours without problems. I got the blue screen 3 times before I started to get worried.The next time I turned on my pc it wouldn’t switch on properly - the fans and lights would switch on, but the screen remained off. After 3 or 4 time of disconnecting the power cable and switching it on again, it eventually worked, and once it was on I could use the pc normally - browse the internet, watch videos, use office documents. But once I played any game it would just stop working properly - it will play a game for 30 minutes or so before the game would start getting lower frame rates and freezing for a few seconds and if I touched the graphics card and CPU cooler and find them both very hot - almost too hot to touch.
I ran various virus scans through Avast, Malware bytes and Comodo Firewall, but found nothing. I also updated my drivers because I realised some were outdated, but that did not fix my problem.
The next time I switched on my pc the screen remained blank again. I tried switching it on about 10 time to no avail. I eventually read somewhere online to remove my RAM and blow on them then reinstall them - and it strangely worked, my pc switched back on! I am not sure whether it was a coincident or not
I am still however still hesitant to play games for more than 30 minutes, because every time I touch my GPU/CPU cooler after that amount of time it feels really hot (though keep in mind I have no idea what temperatures are safe, so it could be alright, but I don’t want to risk it) I have also been hesitant to switch it off, in case it does not switch on again
This pc is about 1 year old now with specs as follows:
CPU: i7 2600k
GPU: R9 280x
Ram: 8gb 1600
Power Supply: corsair GS800w
126GB SSD
2 x 1tb hard drives
This pc has worked perfectly fine for the past year with no problems. Is it a software or hardware problem, or is it possibly somehow origins fault?
Thanks for any help in advance
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