Help, have I broke my PC?

Mariusz

Mariusz

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Happy new year to all.
Hi, I'm having a problem with my pc & I'm hoping someone on here can help.
I've got a q6600, asus p5k, 2gb of ram (dont know the make), gainward 280gtx (B grade from OCUK), 600w ocz psu, creative X-FI Xtreme audio sound card in an antec 900 running windows XP 32 bit SP3, everything at stock.
The problem is youtube wont work, video's start but freeze after 2 seconds & I get no audio, also I now cant play games pc starts loading game then freezes.
The problems started fews weeks back shortly after I upgraded my graphics card from a powercolor 4850 to the gainward 280gtx. Everything was fine at first then I started having the problems with youtube, now games wont start & youtube never works.
I've used driver sweeper to remove ati files, I'm using latest nvidia 180.48 drivers, deleted & reinstalled soundcard drivers & updated adobe to the latest version but still no luck, I've ran out of ideas so any help appreciated, thanx.
 
engstrom0304 said:
Hvae you tried reinstalling the operating system??

In the past after changing from an ati to nvidia card, things started playing up!!
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No have'nt tried reinstalling the OS yet, this is my first PC since I had a commodore 64 when I was younger so a little apprehensive of doing a full reinstall.
Tried different drivers for the soundcard but only used 180.48 for grx card.
When I first swapped over everything was fine, then it started developing the fault intermittently but now its all the time.
I'll try downloading older nvidia drivers & trying them,thanx.
I'll post back later.
 
Hi, I'm running Kaspersky internet security 2009, I've done a full scan & it came back with a green light & said my PC is protected.
Checked in device manager & both gfx card & sound card appear to be working ok both, but the IEEE 1394 Bus host controller is'nt working.
Its a VIA OHCI compiant IEEE 1394 Host controller on PCI Bus 5, device 3, Function 0, that is'nt working.
Checked in motherboard manual & its a 6-pin port for providing high-speed connectivity for audio/video devices, storage peripherals, PC's, or portable devices. Tried updating it to get it working but it could'nt, disabled it then re-enabled it & it worked but as soon as I shut PC down then restarted it was'nt working again. Could this be the reason for my problems? :confused:
 
engstrom0304 said:
Hvae you tried reinstalling the operating system??

In the past after changing from an ati to nvidia card, things started playing up!!
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Hi, I've done a full fresh install of windows xp & youtube is still not working, freezes after 2 seconds.
Has anybody got any ideas?
 
Had the problem with youtube for over a week now, & before I reinstalled xp I was unable to start games they would just freeze on a loading screen, have'nt had a chance to try any games since reinstalling.
 
Mariusz said:
Happy new year to all.
Hi, I'm having a problem with my pc & I'm hoping someone on here can help.
I've got a q6600, asus p5k, 2gb of ram (dont know the make), gainward 280gtx (B grade from OCUK), 600w ocz psu, creative X-FI Xtreme audio sound card in an antec 900 running windows XP 32 bit SP3, everything at stock.
The problem is youtube wont work, video's start but freeze after 2 seconds & I get no audio, also I now cant play games pc starts loading game then freezes.
The problems started fews weeks back shortly after I upgraded my graphics card from a powercolor 4850 to the gainward 280gtx. Everything was fine at first then I started having the problems with youtube, now games wont start & youtube never works.
I've used driver sweeper to remove ati files, I'm using latest nvidia 180.48 drivers, deleted & reinstalled soundcard drivers & updated adobe to the latest version but still no luck, I've ran out of ideas so any help appreciated, thanx.
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Have you got a larger psu to try? You should be alright with 600W but it sounds a bit like not enough power after upgrading your graphics card. Only other thing I can think of is, what are your temperatures like? Not that I can see a youtube video causing your GTX280 to burn up unless it's got a heatsink seating problem or something similar, but might as well try everything!
 
Have'nt got a larger psu to try.
I've got cpu-z & gpu-z installed, cpu temps were approx 25 degrees on desktop & gpu were around 35, I've got an antec 900 case with all four fans on high plus my pc is in the loft which is coldest room in the house. I ran the crysis demo bout a dozen times when I first installed 280gtx & highest it got was around 65 degrees.
 
Cairnsey said:
the youtube thing is a fault with your flash version the games issue sounds driver related...
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Hi, I was using adobe version 9 but when I had problems I updated to 10 but it didnt help. Using nvidia 180.48 & I've tried the previous version with no luck.
 
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