Please help me sort this out???

[eyetrip]

I think PSU is most likely culprit. Take the PSU out of other PC and put it in yours, see howit runs. If its ok, then you know its PSU.

 

[Jacky-Boy16]

Ok cheers ffallic I'll give that a try tomorrow. Night night

Thanks for all the help guys, I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere now

 

[Jacky-Boy16]

I have swapped out the good PSU into my PC now. The screen has gone black for a second about 3 times now, dunno what this could be. The card reaches a peak of around 62C in ATI Tool ,but averages around 58C (with 3d view). I have tried STALKER twice now and it's crashed both times. I also tried Rainbow Six Vegas, and it crashed on the menu screen.

Therefore, it seems there is nothing wrong with the video card (it works in other PC), and there is nothing wrong with PSU (both PSU's give the same syptoms). Any other ideas? I might try some different drivers. i.e not the catalyst drivers.

 

[Jacky-Boy16]

ok well Omega drivers don't work. I'm at a dead end, and I feel like c r a p

I don't know what to do

 

[RJC]

Have a go at running Prime or Orthos to check the rest of the system and mem test to ensure your memory is not playing about.

Rob

 

[eyetrip]

Have a go at running Prime or Orthos to check the rest of the system and mem test to ensure your memory is not playing about.

Rob

Agreed. OR, as the problem is fairly easy to replicate on your system, simply try each stick of memory individually and see if it crashes - not sure how long memtest takes, so just suggesting this as a quicker possible test.

Oh, and is your system OCed? Sorry if that answered - only looked at OP quickly and saw no mention. If it is, try running everything at stock before anything else.

 

[Jacky-Boy16]

k i've started running Orthos(Blend - stress CPU and RAM), any idea how long I should run this for?

I'll give the RAM a try as well
Thanks guys

Oh and it aint OCed either

 

[Jacky-Boy16]

ok, quick update. I ran Orthos for 7 hours straight, all was well. I then swapped out my memory, and found I had the same problems with games crashing.

I then stuck my Radeon x600 pro in, and I get almost exactly the same problems. It's almost as if my PC just doesn't like ATI cards. Could it still be a software based problem do ya think?

I've tested everything but the actual motherboard itself now.

 

[killersheep34]

Personally, I would re-install windows and start fresh. That would have been 1 of the first thing i would have done.

 

[Jacky-Boy16]

yeah killersheep, I've been due a reformat in a while now. It's only that I have a ton of work on here that I'm gonna have to backup. Maybe that'll sort it out.

 

[Jacky-Boy16]

Reformatting has indeed sorted it out, praise be to allah, thanks everyone who helped me out

 

[eyetrip]

Good ole windows reliability..... glad to know its running properly.