Alright well, I wish my first post was more to do with greetings but I have a quite serious problem, I purchased one of the Ultima 8800gts 640mb systems from OcUK: Link
Not long ago. (I'd say about a week)
Since the day I got it, it crashed randomly whilst gaming, it could take anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 hours to crash, it could either result in the computer automatically restarting itself (turned off auto restart in the systems thing in control panel) or it just stopped doing anything and I'd have to manually reboot it.
I thought it was Vista, so I bought and installed a new copy of XP, still crashed, thought it might be a bad xp install, so I reinstalled it, still crashed.
Me and a friend came to the conclusion that 'cause it only happened whilst gaming, it was a problem with the graphics card, so I swapped the graphics card with the one in my old computer (7800gtx) and shoved it in this, no crash, I thought I found the problem, I decided to make sure by putting the 8800gts in my old computer, it didn't crash, so I ruled out it being a faulty graphics card.
Could anyone help determine what the problem is or could OcUK replace it with a working system or give me a refund?
Not long ago. (I'd say about a week)
Since the day I got it, it crashed randomly whilst gaming, it could take anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 hours to crash, it could either result in the computer automatically restarting itself (turned off auto restart in the systems thing in control panel) or it just stopped doing anything and I'd have to manually reboot it.
I thought it was Vista, so I bought and installed a new copy of XP, still crashed, thought it might be a bad xp install, so I reinstalled it, still crashed.
Me and a friend came to the conclusion that 'cause it only happened whilst gaming, it was a problem with the graphics card, so I swapped the graphics card with the one in my old computer (7800gtx) and shoved it in this, no crash, I thought I found the problem, I decided to make sure by putting the 8800gts in my old computer, it didn't crash, so I ruled out it being a faulty graphics card.
Could anyone help determine what the problem is or could OcUK replace it with a working system or give me a refund?
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