computer freezing glitch

bigmike20vt

bigmike20vt

bigmike20vt

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Has anyone else had a glitch with sandybrige I5 computer where the game you are
playing freezes for a split second, inc the sound, before continuing on as
normal.

it does not happen all the time, but when it does it seems to do it multiple
times before settling down again.

So far it has happened to me on crysis, shift and also DiRT2.

DiRT2 was the only one which caused a proper crash to desktop.

I am not sure if this is a driver issue or what.

my cpu is overclocked, but i will slow down tonight, but this machine has been
prime stable @4.7ghz for 2 hrs, and it happened at 4.4ghz.

has anyone else had this happen?

cheers
 
phew fixed... in a manner of speaking. will post here incase someone else has the issue.

it seems to be the marvel sata ports were playing hell with my pc. I suspected it may be an issue as the dvd drive kept hacking even without a disk in, and it was the devils own to get crysis to pass the anti piracy check.

as soon as i plugged into a different sata port i have managed 4 hrs of gaming over 3 games with no issues.


before i could not manage 10 mins.

only snag....

i have a ssd for windows, a bulk stoarage 2gb mechanical drive and a dvd drive....
and i have a B2 revision sandybridge board.

it is may before asus let me have a new one, however i am having to use the ropey sata chipset now as without the marvel 2 ports i only have 2 working intel ones available.

ahh well its only for a month or so.

As impressed as i am with my sandybridge pc, despite the work put in to simplifying pc gaming, since being back in the pc fold i am constantly reminded why a lot of people just like the plug it in and it works nature of console gaming
 
Just plug your SSD and HDD into the "safe" Intel SATA3 ports and your DVD drive into one of the Intel SATA2 ports.

That way even if your SATA2 ports failed no harm is done.
 
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