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Diagnose this please

Swi1ch

Swi1ch

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Happening when I run MW2 trial thing on steam, also complete with looping sound.

It also affected TF2, which I solved by running windowed, adjusting my res to native, playing a game, quitting, then running again, restore to full screen in game and all is good. Done this three times on seperate formats it's needed it every time. It's also very occasionally affecting PKR Poker, which is about the least demanding thing ever.

This crash appears to be my machines new thing, it apparently got bored with the old crash of 'shut off pc without warning even if forced to BSOD option is checked.



Specs:

Q9550 @2.8
8GB RAM
GTX280
850W Zalman something PSU

Nothing is overheating unless it jumps like 120 degrees in the 4 seconds I get in game. Sufficient power, still plays Crysis, TF2, Just Cause 2 etc fine.
 
unp|dissy said:
Anything in the windows event log? Is there eventually a crash?
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It merely comes up with "The previous system shutdown at xx : xx : xx on ‎xx/‎xx/‎xxxx was unexpected." and "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly."
 
Reformat as a last resort?
Try another card to check if its software or hardware side?
 
Sukh said:
Reformat as a last resort?
Try another card to check if its software or hardware side?
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I've reformatted maybe 10 times in the last 18 months. I just wanted to exhaust all possible non-hardware possibilities first, but i've got a feeling it's my card. It was bugging out a bit when I got it, and it's slowly bugging out more and more but I can't afford to replace it currently.
 
Do you have a friend with a PCIE card?
I think that would quite quickly decide if its hardware or not.
Is the card under warranty (First two years)?
 
Sukh said:
Do you have a friend with a PCIE card?
I think that would quite quickly decide if its hardware or not.
Is the card under warranty (First two years)?
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It's within two years yeah, but no one with a spare PCIE card. I'm gonna see if I can float some cash somewhere and get me a 5xxx series ATI or something and ship the 280 back for fault checking and sell the replacement tbh. I'm just worried that seeing as the faults are so sporadic the manufacturer might not pick up on it.
 
I would try removing some ram, try 1 stick and see if it still happens, maybe with 8gig the system isnt stable
 
Just going from your first post where you mention bsods, restarting randomly, it's usually ram thats the cause of these annoying things, and running 8 gig is usualy quite hard on the memory controller and it may need a tweak in the bios to get it stable, i ran memtest on faulty ram before and it passed it, sent it for rma and they tested and experinced lockup and crashs as i was, so i dont trust memtest now, had it replaced and my system has been fine since
 
hyperst said:
Just going from your first post where you mention bsods, restarting randomly, it's usually ram thats the cause of these annoying things, and running 8 gig is usualy quite hard on the memory controller and it may need a tweak in the bios to get it stable, i ran memtest on faulty ram before and it passed it, sent it for rma and they tested and experinced lockup and crashs as i was, so i dont trust memtest now, had it replaced and my system has been fine since
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Ok i'll try it tomorrow thanks. But I didn't say it was bluescreening, I said that I was instructed to set my machine to force bsod, but even then it didn't if that makes any difference.
 
what sound card do you use ? Sounds like a sound driver issue. You don't happen to have a Creative card do you ? 8gb+Creative sound card = crash. If so use 4gb and see if it crashes, if it doesnt you have the dreaded 8gb issue. Google it been happening for several years. It was supposed to be fixed in latest drivers but some people still have it.

If not creative soundcard then ignore me.
 
varkanoid said:
what sound card do you use ? Sounds like a sound driver issue. You don't happen to have a Creative card do you ? 8gb+Creative sound card = crash. If so use 4gb and see if it crashes, if it doesnt you have the dreaded 8gb issue. Google it been happening for several years. It was supposed to be fixed in latest drivers but some people still have it.

If not creative soundcard then ignore me.
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Nah just onboard sound. Sound drivers can cause graphical issues?
 
You havent got an IP35 mobo have you? In MW1 I got something VERY similar with mine until i changed the pcie port from 1a to just 1 and it solved all the issues I had with my 8800GT lol
 
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