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Answer» Hello everyone!
I am a pretty heavy gamer, and had put together a PC that I thought would do me well in the games I play (primarily World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike Source and Team Fortress Classic 2).
I have assembled all the hardware components, and installed the necessary OS, drivers and softwares. My PC is able to run most any game at high resolution/textures/lighting. However, whether I use amazing graphics or crappy settings, I can only maintain gameplay for only so long before my PC completely freezes, and I need to force reboot my computer.
I initially thought that this was one or more of the hardware components overheating, so I purchased serveral fans and a new Video Card just in case.
After I installed these new components, I still suffer the same problem.
I was wondering if any of you in the world wide web could help. I am just kind of wondering what to do, what parts I should upgrade, or what ELSE I would need to solve this freezing problem.
The following is my current PC:
MoBo: MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz 4M SHARED L2 CACHE LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
RAM Memory: mushkin 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) with EPP Profile Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
Video Card: MSI NX8800GTS 320M OC GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Power Supply (PSU): Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W SLI Ready-ATX12V V2.01 Power Supply 115/230 V CSA,UL,TUV,FCC
OS: 64 - bit Home PREMIUM Windows Vista
Case: COOLER MASTER RC-690-KKN1-GP Black SECC/ ABS ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Fans (cooling): Scythe SY1225SL12M 120mm "Slipstream" Case Fan quantity: 3, Scythe SY124010L Fans
Thanks for the attention!
Quote from: revengeofmike on June 18, 2008, 05:35:48 PM
The following is my current PC:
MoBo: MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
RAM Memory: mushkin 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) with EPP Profile Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
OS: 64 - bit Home Premium Windows Vista
I would say your problem is one of these 3
the 'i' series of nvidia mobos have had issues with ram installation.
Are you sure your mobos drivers are up to date?
the was a new release for most of the current 650i up to 780/90i mobos 2 weeks ago fixed a lot of bugs.
Pull out 1 stick and try running with only 1 gig of ram.
64 bit is trouble... dont care what anyone else says it just is.
not going into that in this thread.
will clog it up to much.
3 things:
Pull out 1 stick and try running with only 1 gig of ram.
Update driver for mobo and gpu if necessary
Buy COD 4 alreadyIf you're a hardcore gamer on Vista, I recommend more RAM as well.Check your drivers and also the event log, see if anything odd is in there.
Does this only happen during gaming, or during other things too?
I doubt it's faulty RAM but try running Memtest overnight just in case.
NOT ADMIN, I'd be grateful if you could explain more about these RAM installation issues that the Nvidia Intel chipsets have had, I'm interested.
I also don't agree that 64-bit OSes are always trouble, but if you don't want to talk about it then I won't try to bring it up.
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