Computer Crashes When Launcing Games ?

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Just built a new system,

CPU = QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
Ram = 4GB Kingston
Mobo = MSI P45 Diamond
GFX = 2 x ATI Radeon 4870 Crossfire Enabled
OS = Windows Vista 64bit

I was running it on XP prior to installing Vista and it worked fine with XP playing games, I did a fresh install, installed all the drivers... but noticed it crashing at first when I watched videos on websites (youtube, gametrailes ect)

Then i tried to install a game to play, but just freezes when I launch it...

I don't know what to do know, ive just grabbed the latest drivers from ATI and still it crashed, I don't even get no error messages, just freezes and i have to turn of a plug to restart it up.

Any ideas ?

I think i may have to go back to XP, which i don't mind doing to be honest, I just wanted to maximise the ram in Vista.

Kind Regards
 
I think ive narrowed it down to something to do with the sound, sounds daft but when ever a movie clip with sound sometimes it crashes, and the music quality is constantly crackling.

I just launched halflife 2 and again the sound was crackling, turned up the volume and it crashed...

How do i check the bios for the timings ?

Im running the Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme HD Audio Controller PCI that came included with the mother board, and i used the drivers that came with it
 
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What sound? Onboard bog standard or an add-in card by Creative or similar?

Sound card drivers are the source of many mysterious woes (especially, but not only, Creative's useless bloatware drivers.)

Find out what your sound system is, run DriverCleaner or similar to remove all traces of them, then download the latest version.
 
PCI-E, an MSI-badged X-Fi - interesting.

Bloody Creative drivers - always hated them and their Vista support was very slow in coming.

Try this link: http://support.creative.com/downloads/download.aspx?nDownloadId=10524 - the layout of Creative site makes it very awkward to link, but that should be the 64-bit Vista drivers for your card.

xgstq said:
Ive got driver cleaner, so i should just uninstall the drivers, and software and then run DC, restart and install again manually ?
Click to expand...

Yes :)
 
Indeed trying to navigate through there products to the correct one is a nightmare, I gave up !

I uninstalled the sound drivers, and ran a game, this time farcry and it crashed on the menu...

I have now uninstalled my GFX drivers, and am going to try and install them again, to see if that resolves it...

Worst case im going back to XP !

Thanks for the help btw
 
A little update, Im getting there slowly.. just a process of ilimination aint it.

Here's what ive done so far:

Uninstalled sound drivers (still froze in game)
Uninstalled GFX drivers, Downloaded latest from ATI Site (still froze in game)
Turned off crossfire >> Didn't crash !! game ran okay !! no problems !

I haven't reinstalled the sound drivers yet, but i will do this morning, I don't know what to do now, because I have my computer or i thought i did set up correctly, So it seams when crossfire is enabled in the ATI Catalyst control panel, it freezes..

Any suggestions troops ?

I didn't have this problem in XP either ?

Thanks
 
Im not sure if that is my problem, i have narrowed it down to the crossfire. maybe i should start a new thread in the gfx card area ?

Also, sligtlhy of topic, The email from overclockers goes straight into my spam, and for some reason even when i clicked "not spam" it is still going threre, using gmail.

doing my tree in now, because i have to keep coming back to the thread to see if three is a reply :D oh well
 
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