Odd problems...

[AlSukhon]

HI - 2 problems really: -

1. These days when i try to play certain games (Total War Kingdoms) my p.c crashes.... didnt used to - but i haven't played for a while.... reading up on the net i have been led to believe that i needed drivers etc updating... ended up updating my bios too.... this hasn't solved my problem, just created a nother minor one ==>

2. the headphone jack on my usb port at the front of my pc no longer works - the usb works fine... i even get the bleep sound coming through the headphones at start up..... re-installed the audio software (soundmax) a couple of times... no help...

Specs: -

AMD dual 5200+
Asus M2R32-MVP board
X1950 ATI graphics
2GB Ram (2x1GB)
2 seperate hard drives (120GB & 80GB)
22" Belina

p.s when i say my pc crashes, it does it in a wierd way.... the screen turns off as if there is no signal, the game music either plays a normal cycle or jitters unhealthily and the only way i can stop it is to hold down on the start button and switch off - reset doesn't work at all......

hope you can help.....

 

[Pilky01]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17928164

 

[pjansell]

Could be anything hardware or software, i'd do a couple hours prime/memtest on the processor and memory. Check the usual stuff like temps, hard disk, have you added any new peripherals lately - usb devices, pci cards, remove those etc.

Before that of course, scrub your drivers for gpu, mobo and start a fresh with the latest ones and obviously any game updates and os patches you can get hold of make sure you apply those.

Doesn't crash on anything else then i take it?

 

[J1234]

One thread will be enough on this.