Alright, so here's the issue; At random intervals while playing Fallout 3 the game will crash leaving nothing but a completely unresponsive black screen. After which the computer will emit one beep for no apparent reason thereafter. At first I thought, alright, my old system did something like this when the 7600GT overheated. Checked the temps, Hottest thing is the GPU, and its at 52C the highest, which is roughly 122F, which is ice cold for a GPU with like, 50MB of VRAM free being bogged to h**l and back with a massive post-nuclear wasteland being rendered. (used everest to log them, it logged up until the very end. IE, the black screen of dh00m as I've named it). Then I thought power supply could be faulty, but that's not the case either, voltages are solid. So I tested the RAM, over six hours and no errors with memtest. Hard drives are also fine, so I thought it was the DVD drive maybe (Kind of weird, but I figured, what the heck? Ain't much else could be causing it). So I tried a no CD exe, still no go (yes the game is legit, my brother bought it for me). I don't guess it could be the motherboard, it only does this with Fallout 3, tried new and old drivers on EVERYTHING, got nothing. Thought the nVidia chipset and GPU drivers might be conflicting, so I didn't install the chipset drivers for the NIC and onboard video, still no go. I've plowed through Prey, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, and countless other games without an issue like this. I've tried everything imaginable, h**l, I even re-installed windows on this 60GB 2.5" SATA150 drive 'cause I thought the IDE bus might be overloading since they only threw it on for optical drive use mostly. But, nope, few hours of playing, sometimes less than an hour, bam, black screen. Sometimes it just happens while wondering around the wasteland, sometimes it happens while going into buildings or places, but its only happened a time or two indoors (not including in a city like the city of Megaton, one time I looked at the d**n bomb and then that nutjob cromwell for the church of atom and bam, crash). So, honestly, I have no clue whats causing it, however, with the same copy it does not do this on my Dell Inspiron 1720 notebook, just with this desktop. Anyone got any ideas?

As a note, during the black screen of dh00m, the system, as I said, is unresponsive, mouse movement, keyboard actions, nothing works. Although the left monitor (secondary) still shows the background or whatever was on it. Its froze though, mouse cursor doesn't even move. Oddly enough I can usually hear the last bit of audio, not looping most of the time. Just playing like it would in game. Though sometimes when it loops its an insult and I have to listen to that 'till the d**ned thing realizes I'm holding the power BUTTON and turns off. And as I said, the motherboard speaker (At least I think that's the motherboard speaker) beeps occasionally.. Come to think of it, after I get some sleep, I'm going to try to force the system into another black screen and see if I can find the source of the beeping. It will be either the power supply or the motherboard.. Hoping its the motherboard 'cause that's way cheaper than a d**ned good power supply. Though.. Come to think of it, the beep is a bit too muffled to be the motherboard.. I'm almost certain I'm overloading my power supply with the 8800GS, which means every bit of money I get from Christmas will go into a new power supply. Though, don't hesitate to post your opinion about the problem, if you've got somethin' to say, say it! Might help me save what little money I can get and invest in something a bit more useful than another PSU, like, more RAM. Would kill for another gig or two, or a better CPU, or both if the budget permits. Though, with this issue, looks the the only thing I'll be getting is a new PSU or motherboard.

I've uploaded a log of the temperatures, voltages, and other stuff below in a .rar, plus a system report generated by everest if it helps. There both simple HTML files, easy to read. I had to upload them in archives 'cause HTML files can't be uploaded to CH.

My desktops specs are:
Rosewill RP550 550W w/ 2x 18A 12v rails
Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz/533FSB/2MB L2
LGA775 Foxconn M7VMX-K series M-ATX motherboard with the nVidia nForce 7050/610i chipset
XFS 8800GS 384MB 192 bit PCI-E x16 2.0 GPU
D-Link Air Plus G DWL-G510 PCI WIC
Primary HDD: Hitachi Travelstar 60GB 2.5" SATA150
Secondary HDD: Western Digital WD3200JB 320GB 3.5" IDE
Optical drive: Lite-On LDW-811S IDE DVD burner
And finally, my desktop has 9 fans COOLING it, soon to be 10 or 11 when i install a couple side panel fans.

As a side note, no, my desktop is not overclocked. I overclocked it a lil a while back but something didn't seem to like that and windows would sometimes hang, so I undid that quickly.

2x 80mm front intake fans
1x 80mm top exhaust fan
1x rear 92mm exhaust fan
1x 92mm CPU heatsink fan
1x 40mm chipset heatsink fan
1x 50mm mosfet fan
1x 50mm GPU fan (built into heatsink)
1x 120mm PSU fan (built into power supply)
I'm installing a 70mm side intake fan to cool the GPU, and a 92mm side intake to blow over the chipset 'soon as I get more dremel cutting discs.

Please, if anyone has ANY idea what could be causing this, tell me! Its driving me nuts, 'cause I have to practically have the left and right mouse button binded to quicksave to prevent from being crashed and screwed out of winning an annoying battle or somethin'. I hope this isn't a hardware issue, might be, been thinking the PSU is getting too much load and is trying to shut the system off or kicking off a rail and the drive happens to be on that rail. Maybe its kicking off both and the system simply freaks out 'cause of the lack of power? That could cause damage over time I think.. Either way, I don't know, I'm confused, annoyed, and getting kind of p***ed off. Was just trying to play Fallout 3 'cause I can't sleep and here I sit posting about it because about the moment i took a step my system went black.

[EDIT]

Alright, got it to crash again earlier. Took close to two hours, usually does it in a matter of minutes. Anyway, the beeping is in fact coming from my motherboard. What it means, I don't know, the motherboard will beep every 30s roughly when it goes into a black screen. Nothing is overheating, maybe the power supply is shutting off to prevent being overloaded or going into some safe mode? I'll note again, no the system is not overclocked, and yes this only happens with Fallout 3. So, please, if you have any idea what is causing this, tell me.

[Saving space - attachment deleted by admin]Did you patch the game yet?

Yeah, tried patching it. For the record, I tried both my legitimate copy and a pirated copy I got from a friend, neither work, patched, or otherwise. Both give the same black screen. I tried the pirated copy thinking maybe, just maybe, my copy was bunked. Seems to be something related to my desktop its self though. I've played Counter-Strike: Source for hours on end without a single problem with the graphics completely maxed out at 1280x1024. I dunno what is causing Fallout 3 to do this to my system. I'm going to upgrade the RAM and possibly the drive this Christmas. Definitively getting a new DVD-RW drive, I had to SCROUNGE an old 32X CD-RW out of a stripped apart HP Pavilion just to install Counter-Strike: Source. The drive is as slow as it is old, but, it works for now. I can't really re-install my copy to see if I can get it to work until I get another DVD-RW drive. Mine died, and I went off and destroyed its tray.I had a friend who reported he constantly crashed as well. I actually played this game 8 hours a day till I finished it (I know, I know, don't hate me because I'm beautiful) and it crashed once or twice for me in the period of ... 20 days?

One thing I did -before- I got the game in was update every single driver I could think of;

• Videocard
• CPU (+ Dual core optimizer patch by AMD)
• Chipset
• Soundcard