Recent content by Jawbrkr

I have done some research on the 8800 GT graphics card; so far lots of people have been saying that the video card fan running @ 30% has caused overheat and system lockup issues. I now believe this is my problem, the card overheats when in a game under stress which then causes the computer to...

Another quick question, in GPU-Z there is fan speed at the bottom of the sensors tab. What fan is this pertaining to? Because it's currently reading only at 30%.

after double checking temps I was wrong. Speed fan lists two separate temps, Core - 70 c and Ambient 49 c. Each pertains to the video card. When I look at GPU-Z it reads, GPU Temp - 70 c, GPU Temp - 62. So I've got two programs giving me completely different temps... which one out of each set...

According to speed fan, my video card is idling at 70c, is that bad?

After several hours of problems I finally got an error: The NV4_disp display driver has stopped working normally. I have never received this error before. Any insight?

This happened to me yet again; this time playing TF2 - never happened in the game before. I was playing a match and mid-match it locked up this way. I again had to restart my machine. At the time of the freeze Graphics card temps were normal range as well as voltages according to my program. I...

I tried that a few months ago and still had the same problem. Actually when I was having this issue with COD 5 I decided to mess with my drivers, because I really wanted to play the game. I rolled back, upgraded and such and the problem remained.

Ok, I just played a few rounds of CS:S with my monitors native resolution with no problems at all. Was that driver really that important? I have more testing to do on more games and will post back later.

After updating the SMBus driver, I started CS:S to see if it was fixed; I also turned down my resolution to 1280x1024. The game works now... I don't know if its the resolution that makes it work or the driver update, will check more later. CS:S I could really care less about, its just the game...

I use uniblue driver scanner to keep my system up to date; the only thing that was out of date was an intel SMBus controller driver update. It has been updated. Everything else is up to date and good to go.

I have this program called PCprobe; it monitors voltage of my CPU, MOBO, RAM, and video. It also measures temps of CPU and MOBO. Thus far, there has been no spikes in either temperature or voltage on either of my major components. Could this possibly be a hard drive read error? Since it only...

I thought of that... and it was as I suspected, normal temps during game-play. Hard gameplay temps stay normal. The resolution thing I do not think is the problem, as I mentioned I play many games in my monitors native resolution with no problems.

I have given up... I usually am able to fix my own computer problems w/o any help but this time its got me. Ok... so here is the problem. When I am playing only certain games, my computer monitor will go black screen, the background sound of the game loops constantly, and my computer...

Version number 1004. I just downloaded the latest bios update for my MOBO from the manufacturers web site. http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

Heres a little update: After updating my bios, I am able to boot into my OS smoothly with both sticks of my ram and all of my stuff connected. Also, the power issue seems to have disappeared after the BIOS update, after I hit the power button the system boots just fine, it doesn't shut off...