Overheating?

Enigma24

Enigma24

Enigma24

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Recently my system has started to freeze or reset its self during games. Initially i thought it was one particular game , black and white 2 but its also doing it with bfme now. Ive ran virus scans and checked memory and thats coming up with nothing. Ive got the latest grpahics card drivers and again its still doing it. So i was working on the theory that it was overheating so i cleaned the cpu heatfink + fans and put two new exhasut fans it yet its still doing it.

Any thoughts or soultions would be appreciated thanks

System spec is :

Asus p4p800 motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz Northwood CPU
2 X 512 Crucial DDR 400mhz RAM
Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
150 GB harddrive
Coolermaster aero jet 4 + heatsink over the cpu
2 x 80mm silent eagle golfball exhaust fans

temperatures are

idle: cpu-25 degrees mb-36 degrees
Underload cpu-40 degrees mb 48

taken from speedfan
 
Judging by the age of it its most likely dust in the gpu heatsink or a dead gpu fan, check that.
Try running rthdribl to stress test the gpu and watch the gpu temps.

Could also be dead memory on the graphics card, or dead caps. Check the card and motherboard for any visual signs of dead caps, such as bulging or leaking.

Edit: Welcome to the forums btw. :)
 
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Enigma24 said:
Ok thanks for that a GPU cooler then might sort it out until i can get money saved to build up my new system ?
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Well only if the current one is broken or if the gpu is overheating. I'm only guessing its the gpu cooler, it could be loads of things, but its definitely worth checking it.
Try running rthdribl and see if it crashes.

But yes you can get a replacement gpu cooler if that what it turns out to be.
 
ok ive ran that stress test you recommended and it didnt crash ran it for around half an hour to 45 mins so dont think it can be the gpu overheating now.any software i can use to monitor the gpus temperature?

any other suggestions if its not that?
 
At what point in the games is it crashing?
Odd that its fine in the stress test but not in games. Presumably you haven't changed anything recently have you? If so its really got to be hardware.

If you've tried a gpu stress test and thats passed ok, you may aswell try a cpu stress test. Download sp2004 and run that for half an hour or so.

You could also download and run memtest, that will check the memory, it could easily be a memory problem.

Another thing that comes to mind is it could be a dieing psu, try loading the system up by running both sp2004 and rthdribl at the same time, use speedfan to monitor psu voltage rails. See if these voltage rails change in value between idle and fully loaded up with sp2004 and rthdribl.

Not sure if that gpu actually has a temperature probe, and i only know how to get temperature measurement on nvidia gpus. Someone else might know though... anyone?
 
yeah some ATi cards including mine come with a sensor. crashes at random points in the game usually after its been running for around 15- half an hour.

Could be the psu yeah only go a 300watt one in it. ill swap it over tommorow with another one i got lying around and see if that makes a difference. No major changes recently no so has got to be a failing piece of hardware as it never used to crash during games. :(
 
Your CPU temps are very good. Just to throw another two pennies worth into the mix my system crashed in Half Life 2 and other games until I underclocked my Corsair Corsair TwinX 3200 Pro. I solved the problem eventually by swapping out the Corsair RAM with an equivalent 2Gb kit from Patriot.

Can you not get a measurement of the GPU temp? I have Everest Ultimate which reports my GPU temp. I don't know whether the freeware Speedfan utility does this but you could give it a try, or better still a user of Speedfan could tell you whether it reports GPU temp.
 
Speedfan sometimes reports gpu temp, on mine it reports gpu temp - 10 degrees. Its not much use unless you know your gpu temp from another app, but you could try running the gpu stress test and see which temps go up.
 
Ok small update on my problem ive jsut replaced the psu with a HX520watt corsair one and the crashing/restarting is still happening so that rules out a dodgy psu and overheating issues.

Next port of call hardware wise would be the graphics card yeah?.

I used Avast! anti-virus and it comes up with nothing so would this be a reliable enough program to rule out a virus or software problem?

Help would really be appriciated now as im at my witts end with this.

Thanks
 
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