Possibly Overheating/HD Failure

PrChaos

PrChaos

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Hello. In the past few days my computer has frozen while playing some intensive games at least 5 times. 3 times on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and 2 times on All Points Bulletin.

It was overclocked to around 3.5 Ghz and when playing Bad Company 2 for about 30 minutes the CPU temperatures would reach 75+ degrees Celsius and then the game would just freeze, not allowing me to CTRL ALT DEL out or ESC.

I underclocked my machine and it appears to be running about 8-10c cooler. I tried APB again and this time the same thing happened at around 60+ Celsius.

I have a Corsair H60 ready to install as well as a new hard drive (if its the hard drive) should I need to but I'd like to see if anyone else can give me any information as to why it might be doing this.

Thanks.

Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67 Ghz processor
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R motherboard
6GB Corsair XMS3 ram
1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm hard drive
1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 285
Akasa Nero-967 cpu cooler
Windows 7 64 bit home premium
Antec 902 gaming case
 
Hard to say what's wrong but 75 degrees on an i7 920 is fine so it's probably not overheating.

Do you use MSI afterburner, GPU-z, Gigabyte Easytune, CPU-Z, Fraps or basically anything that monitors/logs CPU or GPU temperatures?

BC2 uses Punkbuster (also used in APB but not sure if it's affected) and for me and a lot of others it falls over these programs and locks the hardware forcing a BSOD/restart and sometimes a CTD.
 
75c is a little warm for a i7 920 @3.5GHz, particularly during gaming, but nothing to worry too much about. What Vcore are you using?

As Tealc has said, it is not likely to be the CPU temperature which is causing it to crash. Could, perhaps, be an unstable overclock or faulty memory.

In addition to the above suggestions, I'd recommend you stress test your CPU when overclocked and monitor temperatures to ensure it is 100% stable (or at least test for 4 hours).

Also download memtest86+ to rule out a memory issue.

I used to get a few crashes in bfbc2 also but seems to have resolved now.

Very unlikely to the HDD causing this.
 
It's underclocked now to stock. So the Vcore is at stock (0.93)

I did do a stress test using OCCT for one hour. About 7-8 minutes in it reached 80c and stopped because OCCT said 'CPU too hot!'

I haven't tried a stress test on it while underclocked.

Tealc, I use CPU-Z, OCCT, RealTemp, CoreTemp and Speedfan to monitor the temperatures. (Not all at once of course)

Another person I spoke to referred me to memtest86 as well so I'm going to make a bootable CD and run it.

Thanks for replying quickly.
 
Hello again. I ran memtest86 on bootup from CD and after 11 minutes the test completed with no errors.

I'm guessing that memtest86 is pretty effective so at this point I'm ruling out a memory failure.

Any other comments/suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks.
 
Here is some proof that there were no errors.

I know it only says 82% completed but I'm afraid you'll have to take my word for it that it completed 100% with 0 errors.

DSC00556.jpg
 
Any ideas? The strange thing is I can play Black Ops fine. I just monitored each core and the highest temperature was 59c. I was playing for a good 40-50 minutes.

Core1: 59c
Core2: 57c
Core3: 58c
Core4: 56c
 
PrChaos said:
Any ideas? The strange thing is I can play Black Ops fine. I just monitored each core and the highest temperature was 59c. I was playing for a good 40-50 minutes.

Core1: 59c
Core2: 57c
Core3: 58c
Core4: 56c
Click to expand...

well i know for a fact black ops isint as intensive as bf:bc2 i have both

wot psu do u have?
maybe its a psu problem not delivering enough juice
 
I have a Corsair 650w. I just tried APB again and watched as even in windowed mode... The game chewed upto 2 GB of ram.

10 minutes before that it was full screen... Got to 2.3 GB ram used and froze.
 
I have no idea. I also updated Punkbuster for APB as well as Bad Company 2. APB still froze. Haven't tried Bad Company 2 yet.

Lot's of people online are saying that APB will work fine if you disable all in game sound. What kind of game is that? A game with no sound? No thanks.
 
Hello again. So I just tried Bad Company 2 for a while. At least 20-30 minutes and it seemed to work fine. I had to put everything to low, lower the realtek sound quality to 24 bit 44100 Hz, disable VoIP in game and also set the sound quality to low in game but it seemed to work ok.

I've since uninstalled APB and updated Punkbuster for Bad Company 2.

Also... The possibility of a memory issue can almost certainly be ruled out. At peak usage I was using only 800mb of ram in game and the highest temperature my CPU reach was 67c (I underclocked my PC)

This is without the H60 installed. I'll monitor it for the next few days and post anything new that I find.

Thanks for your comments.
PrChaos
 
UPDATE: I have the H60 installed and my idle temperatures are as follows.

Core 1: 34c
Core 2: 29c
Core 3: 33c
Core 4: 28c

I'll give it a few days for it to settle in before I stress test it.
 
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