wooo! ok... seems to be resolved.
*SIGH* the issue appears to have been that when I updated my bios, I (stupidly) forgot to re-clock my ram. I needed to under clock it to get it to run stable, but that's for another thread.
4 consecutive games without system hang...
THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED...
Thanks W.Feather, I do... I uninstalled the old drivers, used Guru3D's Driver Sweeper, then installed all the new Catalyst drivers (April 28th ones).
Thanks for letting me know this... I have had problems with video playback and once with the Sims 3, but it is possible that I have fixed...
Done, system still hangs after a random amount of time playing.
Also, PSU tester confirms its not power related.
I feel like im runnung out of tests here... does anyone know of a good comprehensive statistics logger I ca run in the background???
Note to all those ASUS mobo peeps out there too - The southbridge driver update was on the AMD website, NOT the ASUS one, according to the chipmaker my mobo was up to date...
well...
Temps seem to be OK, hard drives pass SMART test & SeaTools Drive Self Tests.
EDIT: I also did all this in a brand new installation of windows 7, on a separate partition.
I also disabled audio from bios and tried without sound in case those drivers were messing with it.
When none of...
sadly yes... phenom I...
The install was off of a burned ISO that I received through work... any MD5 I can run on the DVD that you know of? (getting a new disc will be difficult)
solved. Don't buy that case (at this point its off the market). Case needed to be modified heavily to allow proper airflow, after using airflow meeter @ front air intake.
OK - so I originally had Vista x64 on my machine (specs in sig) and every once and a while, the system would hang. There would be no artifacting, simply the loaded sound would loop a few times, go silent, then all I could do was move the mouse. The three fingered salute and alt+tab would not do...
I built a new system a little while ago, specs listed below. My problem is that (while I know it has been dubbed "useless") the PCProbe utility that asus gives is stating that my motherboard is "overheating" The mobo come with the fanless heat pipe device, and I attached a northbridge heatsink...