Computer freezing up when Playing games

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Hi ( first day here )

Just put together a new PC build for the first time , Everything seems to be running just fine ...except for when i try to run any of the Games I have ( Driver San-Fransisco , BF3 or Medal Of Honor , They play OK for about 5 minutes or so then my System just freezes dead ( with Driver there is also a "buzzing noise " ) ....then i get a blue screen of death and the system restarts ...this only happens when playing games...other than that the PC runs just fine, So I'm asking if anyone has any help or advice please ?.

My System Specs are

Asus M5A97 PRO AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard

AMD Bulldozer FX-4 Quad Core 4100 Black Edition 3.60Ghz

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler

Asus GeForce GTX 560 DirectCU 1024MB GDDR5

Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit

XFX Pro 850W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

HDD x3 , 1 @1TB , 1 @500 Gigs , 1 @320Gigs.
 
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Well I assume so....as I've not touched or changed anything from * out of the box "

EDIT:..sorry should have also said I actually sent the RAM back to Overclockers thinking that was the issue ...but as its still freezing...it maybe wast the RAM.
 
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PianoBasher said:
That's most likely your problem. :) Set your RAM timings correctly for starters. :D
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No it will work fine out of the box.
I have never, ever set ram timings apart from when overclocking my old Q6600. The bios will set the ram timings slower then advertised so it will not cause instability. Even now I haven't touched my ram timings at all.

TBH it's probably a driver issue.
Make sure you download the newest drivers from the Nvidia website and do a clean install (tick the clean install box when you install them). Also check device manager to make sure your chipset & everything has been installed correctly.
 
OK well I've checked the Nvidia Drivers on their website and they are the same as the drivers that came with the Graphics Card .
and as goes the Chipset drivers there doesnt seem ( by looking at device manager ) to be anything marked as being in question


also the Nvidia control panel has crashed once or twice
 
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i didnt catch all of it sorry.....but at the end it said ( STOP 0X00000101 )....probably not much help sorry :( .

Could it be that the new bulldozer processors are unstable with some games ...and one has to either wait for AMD to deal with it or get overclcockers to swap mine for a different CPU ?
 
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foster grant said:
i didnt catch all of it sorry.....but at the end it said ( STOP 0X00000101 )....probably not much help sorry :( .

Could it be that the new bulldozer processors are unstable with some games ...and one has to either wait for AMD to deal with it or get overclcockers to swap mine for a different CPU ?
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When overclocking 0x101 = increase vcore.
Maybe try resetting your cmos, then once rebooted try running prime and see if your CPU is stable.
 
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