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Until recently, my PC has been running near perfectly, but now...
Every so-often, and really quite randomly, when playing games, the screens flash a few times then freeze. The monitor that isn't showing the game works for a few seconds more. If there's something in iTunes it cotinues playing until the end of the song. It never does it instantly though - there's usually an hour or two before it fails.
I have to hit the power button to get my system back.
There's nothing in the event viewer, there's no error messages in the applications, windows isn't trying to do anything particularly cunning before the crash, the system is clean of malware. There isn't any of the graphical corruption I'd normally associate with a failing graphics card. dxdiag says that everything is fine.
The game doesn't matter - it happens in old reliables like CoH and in delicate flowers like Fallout 3.
Nothing is overclocked. Wondering if it was a heat problem I recently took steps to cool down the case, but since the graphics card reaches the same temperature under load as before (and that temp, though high was within its operating limits) the case cooling is more for the benefit of all the other components.
I run dual monitors at 1280*1024 each, but have been doing so for months without a problem.
Everything is getting enough power - recently upgraded to a high end 750W power supply.
I suspect that something is broken hardware wise, because I've undone the only recent system change and rolled back my video drivers.
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Windows XP home SP3
3Gb of DDR2 800Mhz ram
XFX GeForce 8800 GTX with 768 MB - driver version : 178.13 (not the newest, as I said, I rolled them back because I thought that the new ones might be the problem)
Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 Ghz
ECS 965T-A motherboard (yes, a bit rubbish, I know.)
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I am going to be swopping my graphics card for my old 7950GTX tomorrow to see if the problem goes away.
Every so-often, and really quite randomly, when playing games, the screens flash a few times then freeze. The monitor that isn't showing the game works for a few seconds more. If there's something in iTunes it cotinues playing until the end of the song. It never does it instantly though - there's usually an hour or two before it fails.
I have to hit the power button to get my system back.
There's nothing in the event viewer, there's no error messages in the applications, windows isn't trying to do anything particularly cunning before the crash, the system is clean of malware. There isn't any of the graphical corruption I'd normally associate with a failing graphics card. dxdiag says that everything is fine.
The game doesn't matter - it happens in old reliables like CoH and in delicate flowers like Fallout 3.
Nothing is overclocked. Wondering if it was a heat problem I recently took steps to cool down the case, but since the graphics card reaches the same temperature under load as before (and that temp, though high was within its operating limits) the case cooling is more for the benefit of all the other components.
I run dual monitors at 1280*1024 each, but have been doing so for months without a problem.
Everything is getting enough power - recently upgraded to a high end 750W power supply.
I suspect that something is broken hardware wise, because I've undone the only recent system change and rolled back my video drivers.
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Windows XP home SP3
3Gb of DDR2 800Mhz ram
XFX GeForce 8800 GTX with 768 MB - driver version : 178.13 (not the newest, as I said, I rolled them back because I thought that the new ones might be the problem)
Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 Ghz
ECS 965T-A motherboard (yes, a bit rubbish, I know.)
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I am going to be swopping my graphics card for my old 7950GTX tomorrow to see if the problem goes away.
