PC is fine, but when I throw 3D (games) my PC is just pants

Boozebeard · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:31

Schizophonic said:
Not BSOD, both my monitors will crash into a scan line or something very similar. Then I can hear the game sound in the background still. I leave it for a couple of secs and i begin to see my mouse on one of the screen after moving it around.

My friend has this exact same problem, I will be keeping an eye on this thread and hope you find the root of the problem.

wilko49 · 7 Jul 2010 at 13:58

sounds like the graphics card... test the card in another machine. If you have onboard, see what it does using just that.

Phage · 7 Jul 2010 at 20:28

Not BSOD. GSOD = Grey screen of death. Vertical stripes which can come in many colours but is often grey.

Schizophonic · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:28

Phage said:
Not BSOD. GSOD = Grey screen of death. Vertical stripes which can come in many colours but is often grey.

yes!

That is it. I ran OCCT and it did give my rig a good thrashing. Left it for 30min and looked stable. It did stutter a bit but kept on cucking along.

I played some Bad Company 2 last night and didn't crash last night. Tonight's job is to begin testing more and a bit of overclocking to get it back to stratch.

'Wes · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:30

Oh dear, i thought your title said for a moment...

PC is fine, but when i throw it across the room...

Phage · 8 Jul 2010 at 21:16

My GSOD was fixed by updating the BIOS on the card. YMMV. Keep us posted.

Schizophonic · 12 Jul 2010 at 16:54

Right, stock works well. Been testing this over the weekend.

I'm been upping my FSB to something like 2.8GHZfrom 2.4GHZ. Today I switched on my PC and it looks like its reverted all changes. When it was at 2.8GHZ, i used Prime95 and it worked well, no crashes or anything.

Is my CMOS battery dying?

Schizophonic · 30 Jul 2010 at 17:07

Changed the CMOS battery last night with overclocked settings. And still's reverted back to default settings. Why isn't my motherboard holding up with the settings? It boots fine with the new settings.

Strepsils · 30 Jul 2010 at 18:20

NormanPorkinson said:
It's the porn!

milkinc13 · 30 Jul 2010 at 20:20

NormanPorkinson said:
It's the porn!

get rid of the porn, that stuff slow your PC down no end

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serious not could be not enough RAM, heat issues.

welshdragon · 30 Jul 2010 at 23:12

To get to the root of the problem I wouldn't be overclocking.

Do you ahve the latest bios installed as newer ones address certain issues. It may not play nicely with the 5850. Test the psu.

arc@css · 30 Jul 2010 at 23:17

Have you tried using several different free anti spyware programs like MS Security Essentials, Ad-aware, Spybot etc ?

Schizophonic · 31 Jul 2010 at 00:43

Sorry guys, I forgot to update this - my graphics has been fine now. It doesn't freeze up when throwing any intensive 3d games at it.

Just annoyed to the fact I can't keep the overclocked settings.