I've recently started experiencing a whole array of errors with my system and I'm not sure what's going on. My computer runs fine when I'm doing anything memory-intensive (word processing, browsing online, etc), but I mainly experience errors when I'm playing some system intensive video games (Skyrim to be specific). Here are the symptoms:
-> When I first turn my computer on, it stays on the mobo logo splash screen anywhere from one to five minutes before actually continuing to boot up. Sometimes the mobo LED reads FF (which is normal), occasionally it will read CF (not sure what this means, I haven't found a site yet to explain my mobo's codes).
-> About every other time I play that game, the game will randomly freeze. I ctrl+alt+del and it stays frozen... sometimes it bluescreens at this point, other times I just get the "loading security options" indefinitely until I have to turn the computer off.
-> Upon turning my computer BACK on, it stays on the mobo splash logo thing for a couple minutes, and sometimes I get "A disk read error has occured press ctrl+alt+del", or just recently I got "Disk boot failure... insert system disc..." I turn the computer off again, press and hold the power button three times to clear the CMOS, and then boot up again. It will boot normally again (with the lag at the mobo screen still) and won't get the error messages.
I have no idea why my memory seems to be sucked up so quickly by this game, and only some of the time. My system is more than capable of handling it. Does anyone know why these things might be happening?
DFI LANPARTY UT X48-T2R LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 Yorkfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core
Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
PNY VCGGTX560TXPB-OC2-S GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Sony Optiarc 24X DVD/CD Rewritable Drive Black SATA Model
-> When I first turn my computer on, it stays on the mobo logo splash screen anywhere from one to five minutes before actually continuing to boot up. Sometimes the mobo LED reads FF (which is normal), occasionally it will read CF (not sure what this means, I haven't found a site yet to explain my mobo's codes).
-> About every other time I play that game, the game will randomly freeze. I ctrl+alt+del and it stays frozen... sometimes it bluescreens at this point, other times I just get the "loading security options" indefinitely until I have to turn the computer off.
-> Upon turning my computer BACK on, it stays on the mobo splash logo thing for a couple minutes, and sometimes I get "A disk read error has occured press ctrl+alt+del", or just recently I got "Disk boot failure... insert system disc..." I turn the computer off again, press and hold the power button three times to clear the CMOS, and then boot up again. It will boot normally again (with the lag at the mobo screen still) and won't get the error messages.
I have no idea why my memory seems to be sucked up so quickly by this game, and only some of the time. My system is more than capable of handling it. Does anyone know why these things might be happening?
DFI LANPARTY UT X48-T2R LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 Yorkfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core
Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
PNY VCGGTX560TXPB-OC2-S GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Sony Optiarc 24X DVD/CD Rewritable Drive Black SATA Model
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