Hi lords, ladies and gentlemen..
My colleague at work is having some issues with his Gaming rig and they have baffled me.. so thought id see if any of you guys could advise.
A few weeks back his PC started to freeze. (usually during play on L4D) and seeing as no drivers had changed and no hardware had been modfied he assumed it could be heat related so clean his case out and checked the grfx card was seated properly..
It continued to crash (freezing image forcing a hardware reset) He then tried radical cooling but enabling all fans to max speed and opening the case. It still crashed (somtimes 5 mins sometimes 50mins). He then tried to underclock his grfx card to minimum clock speeds.. but still in continued.
I suggested a memory DIMM might be faulty so a Memtest should multiple errors. He purchased to new DIMMS fitted them.. but still it keeps freezing.
He has also borrowed an alterntive grfx card from his brothers PC fitted that but still it keeps freezing.
After eliminating the grfx and memory as a possible cause i suggested a total case clean out and check. All capacitors look good all memory, pci's and CPU reseated with arctic silver. He got about an hour of L4D gaming done, then tried some benchmarking but it bombed after about 2 hours.. with a BSOD and a "hardware failure" message.
Latest drivers on all devices and newest mobo firmware.. Anyone got any suggestions??
PC is:
Asus p5ne32 sli deluxe plus
Intel QX6800 (i think)
BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB PCIe
4gb Corsair TW2X4G 6400C4 PRO
Running on Vista 32bit Home Prem
My colleague at work is having some issues with his Gaming rig and they have baffled me.. so thought id see if any of you guys could advise.
A few weeks back his PC started to freeze. (usually during play on L4D) and seeing as no drivers had changed and no hardware had been modfied he assumed it could be heat related so clean his case out and checked the grfx card was seated properly..
It continued to crash (freezing image forcing a hardware reset) He then tried radical cooling but enabling all fans to max speed and opening the case. It still crashed (somtimes 5 mins sometimes 50mins). He then tried to underclock his grfx card to minimum clock speeds.. but still in continued.
I suggested a memory DIMM might be faulty so a Memtest should multiple errors. He purchased to new DIMMS fitted them.. but still it keeps freezing.
He has also borrowed an alterntive grfx card from his brothers PC fitted that but still it keeps freezing.
After eliminating the grfx and memory as a possible cause i suggested a total case clean out and check. All capacitors look good all memory, pci's and CPU reseated with arctic silver. He got about an hour of L4D gaming done, then tried some benchmarking but it bombed after about 2 hours.. with a BSOD and a "hardware failure" message.
Latest drivers on all devices and newest mobo firmware.. Anyone got any suggestions??
PC is:
Asus p5ne32 sli deluxe plus
Intel QX6800 (i think)
BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB PCIe
4gb Corsair TW2X4G 6400C4 PRO
Running on Vista 32bit Home Prem
