cold boot + gaming issue

andyp

andyp

andyp

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Specs as follows:

ASUS P5N-E SLI
E2180 @ 3.00ghz (300x10), 1.42v
2GB OCZ XTC rev2 @ 800mhz, 5-5-5-12 2T, 2.1v
OCuK 7900GTO 512MB @ 721/740
OCZ Powerstream 520w
Vista 32bit
1 Sata HDD, 3 IDE HDD, 1 Optical IDE drive

Every morning from cold boot, without fail, my PC will either BSOD (usually IRQL not equal... blah) or just switch to a black screen and restart in the middle of loading Vista, it will do this a couple of times and then it'll be perfectly fine for general use.

FEAR and Far Cry lock the machine up after anywhere in between 5 and 120 minutes of playing. It's a hard lock, everything freezes and the only thing I can do is press reset. The only other odd times I've had it lock up or BSOD is whilst using webcam, switching tabs in Firefox or meddling with Vista Sidebar.

All my temperatures are fine, CPU idles mid-30's and Orthos load (12 hours of CPU stress test passes fine!) is low to mid 50's. GPU rarely gets above 55c under constant 3DM06 runs.

I've ramped down my overclocks on both CPU and GPU and still get the same issues.
 
Made a further discovery.

"Video scheduler encountered an unexpected fatal error" BSOD whilst playing Far Cry - then "IRQL not less or equal" whilst booting up after that.

Memtest reports no errors at all by the way.
 
i would say your overclock isn't stable, as simple as that. I would either back off abit or even just clear the CMOS, run it standard for a bit and overclock again slowley.
 
I've run every stress test there is for a cumulative total of 72 hours and not had one single error.

Cold boot BSOD this morning reports I need to run 'driver verifier' - if that fails 'enable special pool'.
 
The "IRQL" error is usually a video driver error.

Try uninstalling them run ddriver cleaner and install the latest one available.
 
Strange, I've run driver cleaner and reinstalled the latest WHQL forcewares. Stuck my overclock down to 2.9ghz and just spent a good half hour messing around on far cry - much longer than I would have been able to before. I know this board has a FSB hole above 300 - maybe I was just teetering on the edge having it at 300x10?

If it starts playing up again everything's going back to stock.
 
FYI Farcry doesn't run properly in Vista. It crashes and fails straight after the tanker level near the beginning.
 
You say you have installed the latest WHQL Forceware drivers. Have you installed the latest nforce drivers for the motherboard?
 
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