Whenever I play a game on my pc, regardless of what it is, it will lock up and loop w.e sound is playing for about 10secs then resume to normal game play. I have done several things to try and find the issue myself:
1. Formatted computer and installed the newest driver for sound, video, and cpu. Although i updated windows fully prior to the drivers.
2. Cleaned out my computer of dust.
3. Ran memtest86x for 14 hours with all passes.
4. Ran the sea gate HDD tester with pass on ever test (maxtor 100gb).
5. Went and bought a zalman cooler for my VGA card which keeps my card at 63 C with load (7600gt).
6. Took my hard drive and set it next to my ear while playing the game (lol) to hear any noises when the lockups occur.
7. Monitored the temp of cpu, gpu, HDD, and mb, all with normal temps (MB=47 c, HDD 43 C, CPU 44 C)
8.Bought a new power supply thermoltake i believe 600 watt, or 650.
9. Made sure the power settings were set to never for hard drive turn off in power management tab.
10. I know its not program related because if done the whole misconfig only load MS services and turn off everything else thing. Plus i just reformatted.
11. Tried the second pci-express slot on MB to see if it was the primary slot (i turned the chip over to single gpu so it would work, only ran at 8x but problem stilled occurred.)
12. Updated Directx.
13. Nothing is overclocked.
14. Windows event viewer is not picking any errors up in the system or application tab (any tabs actually.)
and that's about all if done. For system specs...
ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe board
2048 corsair (with heat sinks) 2xsticks 1gb each.
AMD 3800 x2 processor
Nvidia 7600gt
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...pply%20W0121RU
-that's the power supply link.
Also a side note: The last time I reformatted my HDD, my computer (2hours later) did the same thing though it wouldn't only just be with game play, playing music, browsing internet, and etc...I fixed it by replacing the SATA data cables to the hard drive, couple weeks later this started to happening that's why 2 out of the 11 steps were hard drive oriented. I figured it was an HDD problem at the start but after the hearing test and the seagate tests, i figured it was the gpu temp being it was 70 C under load (now 63 c with zalman cooler on it). Idk whats going on, which is why I am posting here...any Ideas? Thanks so much.
1. Formatted computer and installed the newest driver for sound, video, and cpu. Although i updated windows fully prior to the drivers.
2. Cleaned out my computer of dust.
3. Ran memtest86x for 14 hours with all passes.
4. Ran the sea gate HDD tester with pass on ever test (maxtor 100gb).
5. Went and bought a zalman cooler for my VGA card which keeps my card at 63 C with load (7600gt).
6. Took my hard drive and set it next to my ear while playing the game (lol) to hear any noises when the lockups occur.
7. Monitored the temp of cpu, gpu, HDD, and mb, all with normal temps (MB=47 c, HDD 43 C, CPU 44 C)
8.Bought a new power supply thermoltake i believe 600 watt, or 650.
9. Made sure the power settings were set to never for hard drive turn off in power management tab.
10. I know its not program related because if done the whole misconfig only load MS services and turn off everything else thing. Plus i just reformatted.
11. Tried the second pci-express slot on MB to see if it was the primary slot (i turned the chip over to single gpu so it would work, only ran at 8x but problem stilled occurred.)
12. Updated Directx.
13. Nothing is overclocked.
14. Windows event viewer is not picking any errors up in the system or application tab (any tabs actually.)
and that's about all if done. For system specs...
ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe board
2048 corsair (with heat sinks) 2xsticks 1gb each.
AMD 3800 x2 processor
Nvidia 7600gt
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...pply%20W0121RU
-that's the power supply link.
Also a side note: The last time I reformatted my HDD, my computer (2hours later) did the same thing though it wouldn't only just be with game play, playing music, browsing internet, and etc...I fixed it by replacing the SATA data cables to the hard drive, couple weeks later this started to happening that's why 2 out of the 11 steps were hard drive oriented. I figured it was an HDD problem at the start but after the hearing test and the seagate tests, i figured it was the gpu temp being it was 70 C under load (now 63 c with zalman cooler on it). Idk whats going on, which is why I am posting here...any Ideas? Thanks so much.
looks like its gonna have to be geek squad, those vampires.
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