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Thanatos421   05-14-2007 at 05:12:08 PM

Weird problem here. I originally thought this was my GFX card overheating, which I replaced the cooler on it and cut temps by nearly 10 deg and this still happened last night.

System is:

Opty 185
Asus A8V
2 Gig Corsair XMS - DDR400
GeCube x1950xtx AGP
OCZ - GameXstream 700w


Any ideas about what could be causing my comptuer to reboot? I have monitored my GPU temps and even after 6 hours of BF it never goes over 65c. CPU temps are stable as well (if core temp is correct). I have run out of things to check. The OCZ PSU is brand new and seems to handle the GPU power needs quite adequately. Is it possible that some software bug in EA's programming is shutting it down? I am able to run 8 and 9 hour WoW sessions without a hitch, so far it's only BF2142 that reboots.

Any suggestions?

PS - I killed the overclock in my sig to remove that variable from the problem. It's running at 2.6 stock now.

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cafuddled   05-14-2007 at 06:05:28 PM
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Underclock the timings on your memory as well as the CPU - memory timings and get back if the problem persists :wink:

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Thanatos421   05-14-2007 at 07:48:28 PM
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I already had the memory timing loose to allow for good OC. The memory I have is the CAS 3 XMS, and I run it at 5-5-5-12. Is that not loose enough?

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cafuddled   05-15-2007 at 11:28:03 AM
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Might not be, also there is another setting for your CPU to talk to your motherboard at. Cant remember the exact name but that might be set to T1 and if it is and your trying to run dual channel memory that might be topping your motherboards bus over the edge so set that to T2.

Also try setting your memory to 166MHz instead of 200MHz and see if you still get the problem. This is also a trouble shooting phase so don’t worry you are only seeing what the problem is. If it does work at 166MHz with out crashing then it is 99% likely that it is the problem I described above.

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Thanatos421   05-15-2007 at 04:50:30 PM
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Strange....last night I ramped my OC back up and set all my temprature monitors (just in case) and logged in. I played 5 hours of BF2142 without a problem. This doesn't seem to be consistent at all. At least that pretty much cuts heat out of the problem. If it were heat, I could probably set my watch to it.

I'll play around with the memory timings and see what happens. I just have a bad feeling that since it isn't really consistant, then I won't really know if I am successful or not. Such a random shutdown.

Someone mentioned, on another forum, that it could be my PSU and load balancing problems, but if that were the case, wouldn't that hold true for all games?? WoW has never rebooted my system and some of my WoW sessions are 12+ hours.

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Yarnhall   05-15-2007 at 10:09:27 PM
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Quote :

.......WoW has never rebooted my system and some of my WoW sessions are 12+ hours.


Maybe its trying to tell you something....

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cafuddled   05-16-2007 at 10:27:29 AM
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I think it's more the motherboard than the memory, thing is Battle Field 2142 really stresses your hardware while Would of Warcraft… well, dose not. The best way to see if there is a problem with you memory is downloading a program called prime95 and running the torture test. Leave that running in the background for a few hours and see if you get a holt message, if you do then it is most likely the ram/mobo but it is not out of the question that it could be something else… just very unlikely that it is.

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SPasitic Colon   12-23-2008 at 03:47:50 AM
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I have seen this come up myself and traced it to my new ASUS mothoerboard. I have an ASUS P5KPL-CM. I have come accross sevral other posts that have trouble with BF2142.


In each case a diffrent CPU, graphics card, RAM. But alawsy a newer ASUS board.

I have not seen this on any other games.


Best of luck,


CPU: Presler duo

MOBO: ASUS P5KPL-CM

RAM: 2GB PNY 667

Ninvidia 6800 Ultimate MSI


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djcoolmasterx   12-25-2008 at 12:48:50 AM
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Nice year and a half bump there, I'm sure OP appricaites the help.

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