I've got a really weird problem with my PC at the moment and I've had it since I bought a new mobo/CPU/Heatsink.
Everything was fine for a while. I loaded windows XP, updated the bios and updated windows. Then I went to install the Graphics drivers, then restarted the computer, Windows would hang at startup and safemode would hang at 'AGP440.SYS' and there seemed to be nothing I could do until I read that disabling the agp440.sys service would allow me into windows and safe mode again. I uninstalled the graphics drivers then had a look around for some different chipset drivers (had a hunch
) and voila , there was a set of old chipset drivers that seemed to work and everything was fine again with the gfx drivers installed.
Later that night I had a good game of MTA (GTA:SA mod) and the system was stable . The next day I tried playing RACE:WTCC and about 5 minutes into the game the system crashed and would'nt post. I took out the keyboard/sound/controller cables and tried booting again and it booted fine!
After trying RACE:WTCC again the system just crashed after 5 minutes and wouldnt post . i managed to get the pc up and running again , so I tried a little overclocking. I got the CPU to 2.25ghz (E2160) and everything was stable in windows, I then tried MTA and the system hung and wouldnt post again for about 10 minutes.
The system crashing and not posting is making think that the PSU is at fault and is tripping some sort of safety mechanism because it's not quite powerful enough. But then again I've Ran 3Dmark2006 and it was fully stable through that, But then tried it again and it crashed on startup.
Has anyone had any experience of this before? I've tried everything and it's not working. So would appreciate someone else's input
Sorry for the long post, but its been a long couple of days trying to sort this bloody computer out
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Everything was fine for a while. I loaded windows XP, updated the bios and updated windows. Then I went to install the Graphics drivers, then restarted the computer, Windows would hang at startup and safemode would hang at 'AGP440.SYS' and there seemed to be nothing I could do until I read that disabling the agp440.sys service would allow me into windows and safe mode again. I uninstalled the graphics drivers then had a look around for some different chipset drivers (had a hunch
) and voila , there was a set of old chipset drivers that seemed to work and everything was fine again with the gfx drivers installed.Later that night I had a good game of MTA (GTA:SA mod) and the system was stable . The next day I tried playing RACE:WTCC and about 5 minutes into the game the system crashed and would'nt post. I took out the keyboard/sound/controller cables and tried booting again and it booted fine!
After trying RACE:WTCC again the system just crashed after 5 minutes and wouldnt post . i managed to get the pc up and running again , so I tried a little overclocking. I got the CPU to 2.25ghz (E2160) and everything was stable in windows, I then tried MTA and the system hung and wouldnt post again for about 10 minutes.
The system crashing and not posting is making think that the PSU is at fault and is tripping some sort of safety mechanism because it's not quite powerful enough. But then again I've Ran 3Dmark2006 and it was fully stable through that, But then tried it again and it crashed on startup.
Has anyone had any experience of this before? I've tried everything and it's not working. So would appreciate someone else's input
Sorry for the long post, but its been a long couple of days trying to sort this bloody computer out
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