Prime Stable yet Random Crashes

Hmmm possibly. Ive taken the gfx card out and left it running on the onboard and I got an error about the display driver however it's got the latest ones.

With the 5870 left in there were problems with both the old drivers and the latest ones.
 
You seem to have at leat isoltaed the problem to the gfx card/gfx slot - perhaps even the driver although you seem to have eliminated that with previous testing.

When you did the furmark test did you make a note of the temps?
 
I think i did but it crashed rather than restarted. Is there a log kept anywhere of the details of the run?
 
I give up!

Fitted a new graphics card (6850) re-ran Furmark and it had the gfx temps around 70c which I'm sure isn't bad and the load around 99% for about an hour. Played a bit of far cry2 for aa couple hours (only game of his I could find although I know not the newest)

Though brilliant that must be it. Ran intel burn test a couple hours to. All was fine. It had had been on for about 24hrs straight with no problems.

Joe came home, installed Skyrim. Played it for a couple hours and I hadn't heard anything and thought brilliant. All must be well.

Just had a phone call and it's gone again after about an hour! He's not said what's happened yet but I know I can never recreate the problem and all I get is hassle :(
 
Hard drive issue maybe? Run something like HD Tune to view the smart data and run WDs own DOS based tester.

If that passes then a clean install of Windows + the latest drivers would be my suggestion. Use a different HDD if possible so you can go back if that doesn't solve the issues.
 
Marvt74 said:
I give up!

Fitted a new graphics card (6850) re-ran Furmark and it had the gfx temps around 70c which I'm sure isn't bad and the load around 99% for about an hour. Played a bit of far cry2 for aa couple hours (only game of his I could find although I know not the newest)

Though brilliant that must be it. Ran intel burn test a couple hours to. All was fine. It had had been on for about 24hrs straight with no problems.

Joe came home, installed Skyrim. Played it for a couple hours and I hadn't heard anything and thought brilliant. All must be well.

Just had a phone call and it's gone again after about an hour! He's not said what's happened yet but I know I can never recreate the problem and all I get is hassle :(
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Sorry to read you're still having problems - thought you had this one nailed.

I've just scan read the thread to reaquaint myslef with the problem - and i think we came to the 'working' conclusion that the gfx card or the motherboard slot was at fault. The furmark test on the old card was pretty damning...

You've now changed the gfx card and still you're having problems - yet it passed the furmark test(?).

There's a slim possibility the problem may not be related directly - did you do a fresh install with the new card? There a possibilty with all the freezing, BSODs etc you may have a corrupted Windows.

Also are the MB/chipset drivers upto date as this can sometimes fix gfx stability issues?
 
I was a bit lazy admittedly and didn't bother with a fresh install. I thought going ati to
Ati would be ok and that I'd only do a fresh install if I had problems so that's still an option.

I've come home and apparently he was playing with all settings on the highest. He's dropped them down a little and hasn't been having problems since so could just have been trying to do more than the system could take.

Would you think the stock settings for this could do Skyrim on highest settings at 1920x1080?
 
Marvt74 said:
I've come home and apparently he was playing with all settings on the highest. He's dropped them down a little and hasn't been having problems since so could just have been trying to do more than the system could take.

Would you think the stock settings for this could do Skyrim on highest settings at 1920x1080?
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Looking at the game spec it shouldn't be much of a problem and if it was playing OK up until the point it crahsed it would indicate the system was capable of playing it at that spec - apart from the error.

It may be driver related - i would check the ATI site and see if there are any known problems with Skyrim and certain driver releases.

I would also do the chipst update just to play it safe.

If the errors are only Skyrim related then it may not be anything for you to majorly worry about. But if it starts to become unstable in other software i would consider doing a re-install to rule out corruption through previous freezes/BSODS.

Best of luck
 
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