Yesterday, my old faithful Q6600 rig froze.
First time, when my lad was playing World of Warcraft - the game just froze with him in mid-flight;
Second time, a a bit later, I was firing up BF3, but the game was still minimised, as the first map hadn't yet loaded.
Symptoms: the screen turned pinky-purple, with very much of a "mesh" look to it - like a very fine grid overlaid on the usual display. And it was "speckling". I know that's not a word, but it's the best I can come up with
it was like individual pixels were dancing about.
I thought it was a GFX card problem, but I had very little mouse response - I could hardly move it, but it would respond for a split-second, as I was trying to get it to the Windows button. But then the screen would blink, and it would just re-appear at the top of the screen.
Any ideas?
Specs:
Q6600 @ stock;
ASUS P5KC Combo mobo;
OCZ Platinum 4GB 1066MHz RAM;
Corsair TX 650w PSU;
MSI GTX560Ti 2048MB. (bought @ OCUK Oct 2011)
It's usually rock solid for hours of BF3, WoW, Arkham City, Skyrim etc.
After I restarted it last night, I fired up BF3 and it ran OK - but for those of you who play, on Kharg, coming from D across to C, as I went to cross the road, the buildings across the road weren't drawn - just the sea! That's never happened before. I had to get halfway across the road before those buildings between D and C popped up. And they're pretty much in front of me. Very worrying.
Any help appreciated - it's served me well since October '08!
First time, when my lad was playing World of Warcraft - the game just froze with him in mid-flight;
Second time, a a bit later, I was firing up BF3, but the game was still minimised, as the first map hadn't yet loaded.
Symptoms: the screen turned pinky-purple, with very much of a "mesh" look to it - like a very fine grid overlaid on the usual display. And it was "speckling". I know that's not a word, but it's the best I can come up with
it was like individual pixels were dancing about.I thought it was a GFX card problem, but I had very little mouse response - I could hardly move it, but it would respond for a split-second, as I was trying to get it to the Windows button. But then the screen would blink, and it would just re-appear at the top of the screen.
Any ideas?
Specs:
Q6600 @ stock;
ASUS P5KC Combo mobo;
OCZ Platinum 4GB 1066MHz RAM;
Corsair TX 650w PSU;
MSI GTX560Ti 2048MB. (bought @ OCUK Oct 2011)
It's usually rock solid for hours of BF3, WoW, Arkham City, Skyrim etc.
After I restarted it last night, I fired up BF3 and it ran OK - but for those of you who play, on Kharg, coming from D across to C, as I went to cross the road, the buildings across the road weren't drawn - just the sea! That's never happened before. I had to get halfway across the road before those buildings between D and C popped up. And they're pretty much in front of me. Very worrying.
Any help appreciated - it's served me well since October '08!
