When I play star wars my comp freezes up, I get a whirring sound from my speakers and I can do nothing, not even ctrl alt delete so have to power off my comp. if I press and hold front button to switch it off it goes off then I reboot it starts booting stops starts again and nothing comes up on screen. Only comes back on if I power off at wall for a period of time. Any idea what's happening? Thx xxx
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Stulids question, Is it only that game that has these problems?
Sounds like it could be a sound driver crash or error, maybe try changing your playback options? I'd recommend 24 bit 44.1KHz Stereo (Studio Quality).
Sounds like it could be a sound driver crash or error, maybe try changing your playback options? I'd recommend 24 bit 44.1KHz Stereo (Studio Quality).
Is the PC overclocked? if yes, reset it all to stock settings.
Can you download Coretemp and monitor your CPU temps, maybe while trying to stress the CPU using another program called Prime95.
Download and run Memtest.
Can you download Coretemp and monitor your CPU temps, maybe while trying to stress the CPU using another program called Prime95.
Download and run Memtest.
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Stulid suggests Prime 95 which is very good.
However OCCT puts your cpu under more stress so it takes less time to heat up.
However OCCT puts your cpu under more stress so it takes less time to heat up.
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Where's your build log ?! 
Post your complete system specs and what are your temps like ? HWMonitor should pick up most of the temps http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Post your complete system specs and what are your temps like ? HWMonitor should pick up most of the temps http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
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Stock values on sandybridge motherboards are sometimes automaticly overclocked/over volted,are you sure its running stock volts and clockrate?Have you actualy used a program like CPU-Z/CoreTemp to moniter what the CPU voltage/temperature and clock speed are whilst the CPU is running a heavy load? If you want the RAM to run @ 1600mhz then go into the BIOS and change the memory speed to 1600mhz and make sure the voltage RAM voltage is set to 1.585 volts or lower,i think thats the maximum it should really be,even if rated for 1.65v at that speed,somebody correct me if im wrong im just working from memory!
Hope you figure it out in the end!
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No I just assumed because I hadn't changed them they'd be running at stock. Thanks for pointing this out!!
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Get your temps out for us love
Especially interested in your GPU tempsFirst crack of the whip.... is your D2X next to the GPU ? If so move it as far away as possible
BTW How did you find the d2x ?
EDIT: Actually remove the d2x completely and test again
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Yeah quick, glance and your temps look good but I think it could be the d2x causing problems (drivers whilst gaming which is pretty well known).
Yeah take it out and see if you get any lockups. BTW Whilst you're testing maybe leave hwmonitor running and logging to file
Good luck
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HOLD YOUR HORSES.. Forget the D2X
Why is your CPUTIN temp so high ?! This indicates a poor seat with the heatsink or too much thermal paste
EDIT: Stress test with OCCT and see if that temperature increases
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