Crashing in games, lost for ideas!

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Recently I've been getting a lot of crashes in games, although I currently only have WoW and GRID installed, both of these are crashing with the same error.

Basically, at random times in the games, the screen will just freeze, then ATI recover will do it's thing attempting to recover the driver, sometimes working sometimes not.

I have tried uninstalling all drivers, restarting into safe mode, and using drivercleaner to remove all drivers, and then reinstalling the newest drivers, all to no joy.

System is;
E4500
ATI 3870XT
Gigabyte P35DS3L
2GB Giel ULL RAM
500W OCZ PSU
Then the usual HDDs, fans and whatnot.

Thanks to anyone who can help :)
 
tried the original drivers that came with your card?

Are your windows updates all up to date?

Tried giving the ATI card a good blow through?, because dust builds up like a bugger with them and can cause errors.
 
I don't have the original disk anymore :(, but I've tried several different versions of the drivers and they all have the same effect.

Windows is XP with SP3 and as up to date as I know.

Haven't blown the card, but will give it a go, thanks.
 
Nope, this was my first build using anything more than on board graphics, honestly though, I don't see that it could be anything else causing it, as I get the ATI VPU recover afterward. But I could well be wrong.
 
Went all the way back to the 8.3 drivers, as I can't remember having any errors with these in the past, but the errors are still there.

Also have given the card and fan a good dusting now, just in case.
 
You might google your spec a bit.
I remember I had same problem on my 64 4200, was about to buy new GPU when I found out that it was an issue with motherboard and CPU not liking each other and I just had to adjust some settings in BIOS for it to work.
 
PhoenixUK said:
You might google your spec a bit.
I remember I had same problem on my 64 4200, was about to buy new GPU when I found out that it was an issue with motherboard and CPU not liking each other and I just had to adjust some settings in BIOS for it to work.
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The thing is, it's been fine for the last 3 or so months since I bought it, although there was the occasional crash (same as not, but FAR less frequesnt) but they've been a lot worse the last few days.

Only thing that's changed recently is a new wireless card, but google brings up nothing about any clashes. It's a Netgear WG311GE if anyone knows anything about it?

I'll have to try and get hold of a different card, see if that changes anything, although I doubt it.
 
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500W OCZ PSU which model exactly because I was thinking and it's a long shot the fact you've added more hardware that draws power could be that the psu is struggling ? see if it still happens when you remove the wireless card or something else that draws power? other than that it could be simply a software issue/ something is corrupted / drivers /virus even or memory try running memtest
I would run antivir personal classic edition too
 
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Your wireless card is a PCI one, perhaps its conflicting with something. Uninstall it and then remove it to see if the crashes go away! Next step I would try removing other non essential conponents like sound cards etc.
 
fobose said:
Your wireless card is a PCI one, perhaps its conflicting with something. Uninstall it and then remove it to see if the crashes go away! Next step I would try removing other non essential conponents like sound cards etc.
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This.
Also check event log, before when i had Nvidia drivers causing issues it turned out to be Daemon Tools??? which was getting disc errors on unmounted drives and causing problems. I still dont quite understand how this cause my display driver to crash but meh.
 
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C64 said:
500W OCZ PSU which model exactly because I was thinking and it's a long shot the fact you've added more hardware that draws power could be that the psu is struggling ? see if it still happens when you remove the wireless card or something else that draws power? other than that it could be simply a software issue/ something is corrupted / drivers /virus even or memory try running memtest
I would run antivir personal classic edition too
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This power supply http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp... StealthXStream 500w Silent ATX2 Power Supply

I would be VERY surprised though if it can't handle my system.
 
i used to have problems like this one where it will be stable in tests but not in games.
I cured it by upping the MCH (north bridge) a little bit,
 
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