GeForce 8600 GT Freezing/Crashing

[cs_zelot]

Hello people of Tom's Hardware I was just making another post with a serious issue dealing with my GeForce 8600 GT.

I've been temporarily forced to use an old GeForce 8600 GT but every time I attempt to run a game that should easily be in it's range of capabilities (I.E. Heroes of Newerth or World of Warcraft) it will freeze and often crash shortly after opening.

I'm using a 550W power supply so overheating is not an issue.

Anyone got any ideas or had this similar issue?

 

[Rustyy117]

Just because you have a PSU powerful enough to run a 8600GT does not mean it won't overheat. You need to run a program called GPU-Z (just google it) it will tell you how hot your card is getting.

 

[karthik_11]

Do you have any problems when you are not gaming?

 

[cs_zelot]

Nope none when I'm not gaming.

 

[karthik_11]

Check with gpu z your temps when you are gaming and reply.

 

[cs_zelot]

I've been trying to check my GPU temp when I'm running WoW but I'm getting the same result every time I open it. Audio goes into repetition before freezing and crashing. Can't even alt-tab to check the GPU temp.

It's running at 53 degrees C normally.

I've been able to run Heroes of Newerth, a less challenging game for sure but it recorded my GPU temperature ranging between 53-56 degrees C while running it. Still freezes for long periods of time, sometimes crashes completely.

 

[apache_lives]

gaming = high system load = crash, so logically it may not be gaming but high system load etc, dont be so quick to blame system components etc

download and run some testing tools - memtest, prime95, furmark etc

also whats your psu brand and the rest of your system specs

 

[cs_zelot]

Windows XP
AMD Athalon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
ASUS M2N32-SLI Delux Motherboard
Verto GeForce 8600 GT
Antec 550W GPU

I'll give some of those tools a try, any further suggestions are much appreciated

 

[jsevans8]

This thread has been idle for quite some time now but I am experiencing the same issue and was wondering how/if this was resolved. I have run GPU-z and my temps spike at 75C but I don't have data from an actual crash/freeze.

 

[kt100]

mine did exactly the same thing yesterday too. still trying to find solutions.

 

[mRt0x1c]

take a look at my therad for fix for overheating if you have really bad crashes and cant run any games http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/forum2.php?config=tomshardwareuk.inc&cat=15&post=333010&page=1&p=1&sondage=0&owntopic=1&trash=0&trash_post=0&print=0&numreponse=0&quote_only=0&new=0&nojs=0