This is a slightly long story, so bear with me please.
It all started with my power supply acting strangely. I originally had an Nvidia 8800GTX graphics card, and the power supply in my system was an OCZ850W GameXstream. The other components are 4 1GB sticks of OCZ 800Mhz ram, an ASUS SKT-775 P5B motherboard, and an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66Ghz Processor.
The 850W PSU was being oddly loud at times, and the top of my case was feeling warm. The voltages in the BIOS were very strange at times. When I saw the 12V rail had only 0.5V, I knew it was time to get a new PSU. (Smacking it would actually make the voltage OK for a while)
I replaced it with a Corsair 950TX 950W PSU. As far as I can tell the voltages are normal, and the power supply seems to work normally.
However, as soon as it was installed, the system developed a new problem. Shortly after booting into any operating system, it would either reset or freeze. Doing things like opening files seemed to make it happen quicker. I took the PC to a repair centre and they decided the problem was the graphics card. Apparantly they tested everything else and decided the rest of the system was fine.
The 8800GTX was replaced with an 8800GT from my friend. It was done at the repair place, so hopefully was installed correctly.
Upon getting the PC home, I tested it out. It seemed stable in Windows. No crashes occured.
However, a day later, I decided to try some games. All of the games I attempted to play had previously been working perfectly before the new PSU was installed.
With the 8800GT, the games all freeze up immediately as soon as actual gameplay is begun. S.T.A.L.K.E.R doesn't even get that far, and freezes the system before loading even the menu screen or intro videos.
I'm guessing it's a graphics card problem again since it's happening when I try to do relatively graphically intensive things. Watching videos on youtube etc is fine, however.
But the 8800GT should work fine! I have heard of problems with that particular type of card, but not instant crashes in every single game. For the record, I tried TES Oblivion. STALKER. Defence Alliance 2. Aliens vs Predator (The original PC game, not the new one).
Does anyone know what the problem is? Could it be fried PCI-E slot or something like that? Bear in mind I still don't know why my 8800GTX failed, considering that the new PSU is apparantly ok.
Or is the 8800GT just being a pain in the ass rather than it being a hardware problem? I never used a GT before. Still, I thought it would work as the drivers should be the same as my GTX...
Heeelppp!
It all started with my power supply acting strangely. I originally had an Nvidia 8800GTX graphics card, and the power supply in my system was an OCZ850W GameXstream. The other components are 4 1GB sticks of OCZ 800Mhz ram, an ASUS SKT-775 P5B motherboard, and an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66Ghz Processor.
The 850W PSU was being oddly loud at times, and the top of my case was feeling warm. The voltages in the BIOS were very strange at times. When I saw the 12V rail had only 0.5V, I knew it was time to get a new PSU. (Smacking it would actually make the voltage OK for a while)
I replaced it with a Corsair 950TX 950W PSU. As far as I can tell the voltages are normal, and the power supply seems to work normally.
However, as soon as it was installed, the system developed a new problem. Shortly after booting into any operating system, it would either reset or freeze. Doing things like opening files seemed to make it happen quicker. I took the PC to a repair centre and they decided the problem was the graphics card. Apparantly they tested everything else and decided the rest of the system was fine.
The 8800GTX was replaced with an 8800GT from my friend. It was done at the repair place, so hopefully was installed correctly.
Upon getting the PC home, I tested it out. It seemed stable in Windows. No crashes occured.
However, a day later, I decided to try some games. All of the games I attempted to play had previously been working perfectly before the new PSU was installed.
With the 8800GT, the games all freeze up immediately as soon as actual gameplay is begun. S.T.A.L.K.E.R doesn't even get that far, and freezes the system before loading even the menu screen or intro videos.
I'm guessing it's a graphics card problem again since it's happening when I try to do relatively graphically intensive things. Watching videos on youtube etc is fine, however.
But the 8800GT should work fine! I have heard of problems with that particular type of card, but not instant crashes in every single game. For the record, I tried TES Oblivion. STALKER. Defence Alliance 2. Aliens vs Predator (The original PC game, not the new one).
Does anyone know what the problem is? Could it be fried PCI-E slot or something like that? Bear in mind I still don't know why my 8800GTX failed, considering that the new PSU is apparantly ok.
Or is the 8800GT just being a pain in the ass rather than it being a hardware problem? I never used a GT before. Still, I thought it would work as the drivers should be the same as my GTX...
Heeelppp!