Crashing in games :(

[Greebo]

Or worth checking the pwm as well. On my abit pro with my quad running at 3.8 ( 8 x 475) I found my pc rebooting when the pwm hit 105 degrees

I never even noticed it for ages, thought I had messed up in my overclocking somewhere.

Best to discount everything you can before blaming the psu.

And just a long shot, you might try something different to 100Mhz for the pci-e slot as well.

 

[helmutcheese]

Nope, nothing in the Minidump folder.

I've got the Corsair HX 620W here, surely if it was faulty it'd be crashing more often and not only in games?

I still suspect the graphic card though as most of the time rather than resets the PC will freeze, the screen goes into standby, then after a while it'll usually BSOD with nvlddmkm.sys

Any Errors in the Event Viewer for the Nvidia Sentinel (its big harder to understand in Vista than XP).

 

[Craig321]

Very likely, but have you looked into anything else, eg. the cpu not overheating ? Or the north bridge, the mainboard auto reboots if some stuff gets too hot ? If it's not either of those then I'd say it's very likely it's your psu, try your bro's PSU the next night in your own pc and see how that works out.

CPU runs at a max of about 43 when Prime95 has been running overnight. Northbridge can get as high as 60 depending on the room temperature, it stuck at 55 in Furmark last night.

Not sure about trying his PSU in my PC really, I know it's the best way to test but I don't particularly want to put him without a PC.

Or worth checking the pwm as well. On my abit pro with my quad running at 3.8 ( 8 x 475) I found my pc rebooting when the pwm hit 105 degrees

I never even noticed it for ages, thought I had messed up in my overclocking somewhere.

Best to discount everything you can before blaming the psu.

And just a long shot, you might try something different to 100Mhz for the pci-e slot as well.

There's no PWM temperature unfortunately

Any Errors in the Even Viewer for the Nvidia Sentinel

Nope

 

[Craig321]

Just managed to make it crash on my brothers PC in Bioshock.

Well, it didn't reset or blue screen. It was kind of a mixture between major artifacting and the graphics generally flickered and spazzed out.

A couple of textures were loading, but most of them were unrecognisable.

When the game was exited the desktop was the same. Had to restart to sort it.

 

[jpad16]

At first I thought the crashing was because of my 8800GTX overheating, so I set up RivaTuner and adjusted it so the fan spun up to 100% when the graphic card got to a certain temperature. The temperatures are roughly the following when I've been in a game for a while:

GPU: 65
GPU Diode: 70
GPU Ambient: 50
GPU Memory: 65

As far as I know these temperatures are fine for a card under load?

I was in Oblivion for a couple of hours earlier and my PC decided it'd like to restart itself

I've got "Restart automatically" on blue screen unticked, so it definitely wasn't a blue screen. It was a plain reset.

I am able to run Orthos overnight with absolutely no problems so it's not power supply/memory/something else, however after a few hours in a game my PC will crash.

Is there anything else I can try to make sure it is the graphic card crashing? I don't want to RMA it if it's not faulty.

[Edit]
Gigabyte P35-DS4
Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe E6600 @ stock
BFG 8800GTX @ stock
Geil 6400 4-4-4-12 2.1v @ stock

CPU rarely sees much above 40°C
Motherboard temperature (which I'm guessing is the northbridge?) stays at about 50°C
Drives are perfectly cool - ~30°C

Other than the random crashes/resets when playing games the PC is perfectly stable. It never crashes under high memory/CPU load.

Thanks,
Craig.

To be honest my 8800gts has started with these problems whilst playin grid. the only way i could get it to stop bsod'ing is to enable the vsync, dont no why it now works fine but it does and i aint complainin.

 

[snowdog]

Hmmm sounds like a borked card indeed, try to recreate the failure again and make a picture of it (the artifacts) before RMA-ing, it may help the RMA process be easier, when I RMA'd my 8800GT at a Dutch retailer I told them not to test 3dmark as that was fine, but to test a proper game ( Like bioshock or UT3, or CoD4, which used to artifact within 10 minutes), yet those stupids still ran 3dmark06 for an hour and said there was nothing wrong, I had to repeat to them to actually try a game and bang, the same day I got a call that the card was indeed faulty...

I still recommend you borrow your brothers psu for a night, just do it when he's asleep and give it back in the morning, removing a psu takes 5 mins and installing even less, I mean you don't need to use screws or anything just put it on top of your case it's just for testing...

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Used to do it all the time here, especially in driving games.

Sorry.

 

[Craig321]

Did you ever get BSODs where the screen would first go into standby, then eventually BSOD Loadsamoney?