System Freezing

mod1fied · 13 May 2010 at 21:09

Ill try to keep it simple. When playing a game after boot up about upto 1 or 2 hours in my system freezes with sound repeating, like stutter but quite fast - this is the most common issue I have.

Sometimes video drivers stop responding and Win7 recovers them. Games normally work ok after, this has also happened when I start playing a HD film using MPC.
Something else that may be related - file transfer over network and internet make a buzzing noise from - I think - the motherboard.

Only 4 things come to mind over this which are assumptions based on other problems and solutions I have found:
1) Problem with Nvidia drivers - I am using Quadro 197.59 although it did this with 191.XX
2) Bad overclock - Not sure how as it passed 20 runs of IBT and I have no idea how long of Prime95.
3) Insufficent PSU - 650W enough for spec in sig? Bought it 21st Nov 2007 from OcUK

4) Motherboard dying?
5) ?????

Im at a loss really as I have tried different drivers but it always seems to be the same outcome. Any ideas?

ShaolinDreams · 13 May 2010 at 21:15

anytime ive had a similar problem its always been 1 or 2... as a last resort backup and clean format

mod1fied · 13 May 2010 at 21:36

I've rolled back the Nvidia drivers and cleaned out the newer ones so now Im using WDDM 185 .93 -Guessing these come with Windows 7.

Michaeljcox24 · 14 May 2010 at 06:16

Sounds like a TDR. Usually:

Bad or insufficient memory
Insufficient PSU
Unstable overclock of GPU or CPU
Incompatible hardware

Google Timeout detection and recovery, if it is a TDR, its a common problem.

mod1fied · 14 May 2010 at 17:56

Just had another crash. This time playing music in foobar which is using 5.1 and just about to start watching a youtube video. Nothing stressful at all.

Using Windows 7 nvidia drivers so I don't think its GPU related at all now.

Im lost now.

What I might try is clocking the ram back from 1066 and run it at 800 for a while and see if that helps at all - Its the Corsair Dominator stuff.
Actually Ill run memtest for a bit

L1ght · 14 May 2010 at 19:21

This is the exact same problem which I have. It used to be a lot worse when I wasn't using windows 7, and I also discovered my cpu was running really hot. These days I don't get any blue screens but I have a strange persistent problem with Aero and my graphics card drivers. When I install the drivers Aero initializes but after rebooting I lose Aero. I've tried everything, updating bios, running memtest, I'm still stumped.

Do you have problems with Aero too?

mod1fied · 14 May 2010 at 19:44

Just finished 2 passes lasting 1.5 hours in memtest 4.1
Windows would have normally crashed in about that time - seems unlikely RAM related.

I don't have any issues with Aero like it turning off or anything. Win 7 just seems to work until it crashes out like this.

Edit: Heres the system temps - they were roughly around these figures when it froze last time on desktop:

The only other thing, not sure if its related is sometimes I can see the lights on my G15 flickering. This can happen just after bootup or whilst gaming.