I bought a budget gaming rig from AVADirect back in early June of this year.
AMD x2 3800+
2gb Crucial memory
Asus MSV mb
nvidia XFX 8600
250GB WD hard drive
Rosewill 550 Watt PSU
Windows Vista Home Premium
Thats pretty much it cept for the dvd/cd drives.
The problem is the computer freezes up on pretty much any game thats come out in the last year or so after playing it for more than 10-15 minutes, it will lock up in the middle of the game and I'm unable to ctrl-alt-del out of it or alt-tab out of it, about 5 seconds after freezing up the monitor will say no signal and I have to manually shut the computer off using the power button. It's been doing this since I got the computer.
The second issue thats it's just started doing in the past few weeks is when I start the computer it freezes up on startup right when it displays the little windows load bar it just stops loading and locks up right there, and again I have to shut it down using the power button.
I have been talking to Chris from tech support from AVA and he had me run Memtest86 which I let run for around 29hours with no errors or address locations displayed or anything. He then had me go into the bios and change the memory settings to 1.80. After doing that the computer started up fine and restarted a couple more times with no problems, but a day later it's doing all the same things it used to.
I really dont wanna have to send the comp back to AVA for repairs. The guys at AVA have been as helpful as they can be but I came here just to see if there was anything more I could do. I forgot to add that when it locks up on startup and I turn it off manually if I open the computer up and take out the memory sticks and put them right back in the computer will start normally but will still freeze up on games. I was having trouble burning the memtest ISO file to a disc at first so ava tech support said I could just test the mem sticks induvidually to see if that was the problem since I couldn't get memtest86 to run initially, but like I said I was able to run it with no problems or results.
AMD x2 3800+
2gb Crucial memory
Asus MSV mb
nvidia XFX 8600
250GB WD hard drive
Rosewill 550 Watt PSU
Windows Vista Home Premium
Thats pretty much it cept for the dvd/cd drives.
The problem is the computer freezes up on pretty much any game thats come out in the last year or so after playing it for more than 10-15 minutes, it will lock up in the middle of the game and I'm unable to ctrl-alt-del out of it or alt-tab out of it, about 5 seconds after freezing up the monitor will say no signal and I have to manually shut the computer off using the power button. It's been doing this since I got the computer.
The second issue thats it's just started doing in the past few weeks is when I start the computer it freezes up on startup right when it displays the little windows load bar it just stops loading and locks up right there, and again I have to shut it down using the power button.
I have been talking to Chris from tech support from AVA and he had me run Memtest86 which I let run for around 29hours with no errors or address locations displayed or anything. He then had me go into the bios and change the memory settings to 1.80. After doing that the computer started up fine and restarted a couple more times with no problems, but a day later it's doing all the same things it used to.
I really dont wanna have to send the comp back to AVA for repairs. The guys at AVA have been as helpful as they can be but I came here just to see if there was anything more I could do. I forgot to add that when it locks up on startup and I turn it off manually if I open the computer up and take out the memory sticks and put them right back in the computer will start normally but will still freeze up on games. I was having trouble burning the memtest ISO file to a disc at first so ava tech support said I could just test the mem sticks induvidually to see if that was the problem since I couldn't get memtest86 to run initially, but like I said I was able to run it with no problems or results.