I need some help - PC freezing when playing games

Okay, so I have been playing for the last few hours.

Here's what has happened.

Three things have occured. My surround sound was kinda flimsy and on its way out, and some of the speakers stopped working. I have totally taken them out and using just a USB headset. This may be what was causing the crashes. Even though I disabled the drivers, the hardware may have been some how casuing probl;ems still.

I Turned off the overclocking on GFX cards. This may have helped.

I Removed the CMOS battery, and whilst it ****ed up my pc's times and stuff (easy to fix) this may be it.

I played Mass effect "offline". It could be that the ****** Origin Program was interfering somehow with the gameplay.

Who knows. I get the feeling it may have been the sound system though. I shall keep you updated! ...

...Need to buy a new sound system now -.-


Thanks for all the help!
 
Okay, so last night I played with just the headphones in from a USB socket.

Today I went and bought a new sound system, totally works, all fine. No dodgy wires or anything like that. I managed to play Mass Effect 3 for ages. And then suddenly the freeze occurred again.

Now this to me suggests a number of things.

1) It's just the game.

2) The onboard sound card is a lil dodgy.

3) Maybe the legnth of time I played made the the graphics card/processor overheat.


Any other ideas from anyone?
 
malicht said:
Okay, so last night I played with just the headphones in from a USB socket.

Today I went and bought a new sound system, totally works, all fine. No dodgy wires or anything like that. I managed to play Mass Effect 3 for ages. And then suddenly the freeze occurred again.

Now this to me suggests a number of things.

1) It's just the game.

2) The onboard sound card is a lil dodgy.

3) Maybe the legnth of time I played made the the graphics card/processor overheat.


Any other ideas from anyone?
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The onboard sound could be the problem - I know people had problems with BF3 and onboard sound cards. Not sure if ME3 had similar problems.

I'd be surprised if its that, but download core temp or similar to check your CPU temps during a long gaming period or run prime95 to stress test it and see how hot it gets.
 
I also have coretemp whilst running this Prime95.

This is the screen with prime95 running. Doesn't seem that high to me.

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Max Temp of Coretmp was 39 degrees.

My GPU temp went up to 65 degrees.

The Processor never really hit 100% load either really.

I am well and truly stumped. I have no idea at all what is causing these crashes.

I've ruled out:

1) RAM - Checked with Memtest - zero errors.
2) Both of my GPU's. As the crash occurred on both of them, when I installed them separately.
3) Processor isn't over heating, max it hit was 39C
4) GPU hits 65C - doesn't seem like a heating issue there either.
5) I have updated all the drivers on my pc. Every single one of them is 100% up to date.
6) Have restored default settings on GPU and Processor - no longer overclocked.
7) Totally new sound system.

This leaves me with a few things.

1) On board sound issue with some games.
2) HDD problem? - I'm clueless here, could a HDD problem cause it to crash this way? (New HDD and SSD in the post, will be interesting to see if the problem persists).
3) PSU? - Is it possible that a Corsair 650w PSU can't handle what im running?
4) MOBO is gone - seems unlikely given that it only happens on some games not all.
5) I'm just unlucky and my card doesn't like a lot of games.
 
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It just totally hangs. The screen goes the way it does in that pic i posted, the sound loops for about 10 seconds. Then the system hangs.

I have to do a manual restart.
 
Curve ball:
Try disabling (temporarily, of course) any real-time virus/malware detection software.
Probably won't help, but as you've had no joy so far...
My old rig used to hang if the auto-scan started while I was doing something!
 
Okay, just ruled out the onboard sound card.

Played Crysis with speakers and without. Crashed in the exact same place both times.

Just Ran Furmark for 15 mins or so, and the GFX cards reached 82c.

So basically I am now on to four major things.

1) HDD
2) Motherboard
3) PSU
4) Whilst my GFX cards have nothing wrong with them technically, the hardware/software for them is kinda ****.

It could also be my G15 keyboard maybe? But I've no way at all of trying another keyboard as I don't have a spare one.

Any more ideas from anyone? :(
 
Just turned the settings down to Low on Crysis and it didn't crash.

This could just be a happy coincidence, so I will give it a go again later. Maybe there is something in crysis my GFX card doesn't like, which is there in mass effect 3?
 
Then I tried it again with the settings back on high and it didn't crash either.

Seriously, this is a god dam mystery, What the hell is going on? :/
 
Just read this again:

Max Temp of Coretmp was 39 degrees.

My GPU temp went up to 65 degrees.

The Processor never really hit 100% load either really.
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What do you mean by the last bit? Is that in games or prime95 test? In prime95 it should be at 100% load the whole time, as thats the point of the program. If one of the cores goes to 0 or near during the test, something is wrong!
 
Okay.

Here is the results

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And more worrying (but i have no idea what this means? - it never went above 4)

warning.png


Could this be causing the problem?
 
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