Games keep crashing...need help.

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I recently reformatted my computer in order to stop games from crashing, but they still do. My temp's are fine (around 35c), and my computer can handle graphics on all high. It runs smooth as butter. I have all the latest drivers for everything. But for some reason when playing Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike Source, or FEAR for 10 minutes or so, it will either crash to the desktop (CS:S and TF2 will say HL2.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close), or it will just restart my computer. Any ideas on what to do or an easy way to check my hardware for problems? My specs are:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 ghz
e-GeForce 7900GTX
2GB RAM
Sound Blaster Audigy 4 sound card
 
It would be good if you tell us what you have tried testing.
What temps are 35C? Theres more than one and its unlikely they are all around 35C.
Please specify load and idle temp.

Have you tightened your ram timings?
 
Yes, i updated the drivers for everything. I've tried different versions of video card drivers too. SpeedFan shows all of my temp's below 40c for everything, and so does ASUS PCprobe, so I'm assuming temp's aren't the problem. Also i forgot to say my motherboard is an ASUS P5N-32-SLI SE Deluxe. No I have not overclocked before. I also have never "tightened my RAM timings". I'm probably not as tech savy as you guys, but I was reading up on the internet relating to my problem and I found that one reason it could be restarting is an inadequate or failing power supply unit. How would I check for this problem? And also a "RAM mismatch." How would I fix this or check for this problem? I guess I just need to know ways to check my hardware, since I know its not a software problem (since I just reformatted).
 
yeah, doo doo PSU or heat.

give-er the old touch test. take off the side pannel, run the source stress test, let it go half way thru, then put your hand on the graphics card cooler. If its above 70C you might have a problem. IT should be running, at that point, at around 60C.

Two ways to test if the PSUs a done:

Get a multimeter, select it to measure volts up to 13V and as low as 7V (DC!!!) and plug it in between a 12V lead and where its supposed to be headed. the easiest way to do this would probibly be to plug it into a molex 12V supply and return but, whatever works for you. If your doing less than 11V you're in trouble.

plug in a 2nd known good (as in good, dont just pull it from another system if the system has a generic) PSU.
 
If it was my PC, I'd take it apart, clean all contacts and dust then reassemble.
Theres little value in removing the CPU/heatsink so leave them.
This way we can eliminate bad connections as a cause or it might cure the problem.
 
mmm sounds like bad ram to me, try bumping the voltage just a tad and see if it lasts longer, if that helps, increase airflow in that area run mem test real quick

what brand is your ram?
 
I have tried taking everything out, dusting, and putting everything back in before, but I haven't taken out the motherboard completely, so i think I'll try that next. How would I go about increasing the voltage to my RAM? And how much voltage should be added?
 
Ok...so I just ran memtest, and after about 2 seconds, it came back saying "Memory error detected! Copying between 54fd3e9 and 54fd053 did not result in accurate copy. Memtest has detected that your computer cannot accurately store data to RAM. You need to fix this. See the online FAQ (http://HciDesign.com/memtest) for advice on what to do next"
well.... time to consult the FAQ, lol.
The FAQ are saying that my RAM is bad and I need to replace it. Is this true? If so, then damn...this sucks...
 
I have Corsair XMS2 2GB (2x 1GB). I went into BIOS, and my voltages right now are:
VCORE Voltage: 1.300V
3.3V Voltage: 3.264V
5V Voltage: 5.107VV
12V Voltage: 12.524V

Anything need to be changed? Which one of those is the memory?
 
If you have vista, its the same prob, you cant run any mutiplayer games, its all weird. I can run HL2, but not css/hl2:dm god damn I wanna play those games :mad:
 
I'm thinking I need to increase the 3.3V? I can't seem to find Corsair's recommended voltage.
 
You need to increase vDIMM (memory voltage), push it up to 2.1-2.2 for that ram, should clear out your problems
 
should have known you where running corsair ram just by the way your described you problems...

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1199806

despite it having a lifetime warrenty, dont expect them to do any thing about it... ...if you noticed my sig, i am no longer running corsair. Toss it, get something new, move along.
 
i am not sure if this will help but when i was trying to get my 4800 stable @ 2.9 asus probe would show everything as good, but my comp would shut down completely or games would crash, i though it was my overclocking, but by sheer luck i found that with asus probe running in the back ground even though temps and thresholds were good, it would cause my problems, i uninstalled asus probe and not one crash or shut down since then.

just something to try if u have it running in the background.
 
Mac[X-D];1031456962 said:
i am not sure if this will help but when i was trying to get my 4800 stable @ 2.9 asus probe would show everything as good, but my comp would shut down completely or games would crash, i though it was my overclocking, but by sheer luck i found that with asus probe running in the back ground even though temps and thresholds were good, it would cause my problems, i uninstalled asus probe and not one crash or shut down since then.

just something to try if u have it running in the background.
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while this is true in windows, he was getting errors in memtest, which is booted from a floppy, this means it is either settings or straight up bad ram.
 
dont use that version of memtest, it has issues any way, get the one that works off a floopy and use that
 
ok, running the boot version of memtest tonight...i'll let you know how it goes.
 
Hey, just wanted to let you guys all know that I fixed my problem. My friend suggested that I switch the RAM sticks positions. I took them out and put them back in before (and it didn't help), but I never tried swapping them. It worked! Everything is nice and smooth now and no crashes. Thanks for all your help though!
 
this dosent change the fact that one of your sticks is bad, swapping the sticks around only moves the bad cells to a different location, so they can cause trouble elsewhere. just a haeds up
 
Well what's weird is the memtest thing runs fine now with no errors. As long as nothing is crashing now, I guess everything is fine. If it crashes, then I'll look into getting new RAM.
 
aznknife said:
If you have vista, its the same prob, you cant run any mutiplayer games, its all weird. I can run HL2, but not css/hl2:dm god damn I wanna play those games :mad:
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I run Vista 64 bit and all my games perform flawlessly. I can assure you vista has nothing to do with your mutliplayer game problems.
 
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