The rig in my sig is hard locking after an hour or so of COD4. No sound, still picture displayed on the screen, requires hard reboot. I'm running a fresh install of XP Home 100% up to date and all my drivers are the latest. There is nothing installed but COD4 and Firefox. Immediately after the install I ran Memtest for 5 passes with no errors. Then ran Prime95 blend for 24 hours, no errors. Then Prime95 large fft for 24 hours, no errors. My BIOS settings are all at default. Any ideas what could be the problem?
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Hard Locks in COD4
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silent-circuit
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Could be an issue with COD4 itself. Are your PSU rails solid?
I've never heard of anyone having problems with COD4 crashing. I'm not sure about the PSU rails, although this is a relatively new supply and Silverstone is a well known reliable PSU manufacturer. It replace an Antec TPII 550 not that long ago, and if I have to replace this one too I'm going to flip a shit. I'll get out my DMM and test my rails while I run some 3dmark06 tomorrow. Thanks for the response.
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Try running a different game and see if you have a hard lock as well with the game.
My rails are stable through Prime95, SuperPI, and 3dmark06.
12V at 11.94-11.96
5V at 4.94
Tested on an open molex connector using a radio shack digital multimeter.
I'm stable through 3dmark06. I'll test COD4 without dynamic lights and I'll also try to play a few hours of HL2 next weekend. I don't really have time right now what with the superbowl tonight and test in calculus econ physics and anthropology this week
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Thanks for the help.
12V at 11.94-11.96
5V at 4.94
Tested on an open molex connector using a radio shack digital multimeter.
I'm stable through 3dmark06. I'll test COD4 without dynamic lights and I'll also try to play a few hours of HL2 next weekend. I don't really have time right now what with the superbowl tonight and test in calculus econ physics and anthropology this week
. Thanks for the help.
I've messed around with my problem more this weekend. I tried installing Half-Life 2 (using the orange box discs). I defragged immediately after the installation and was informed that Windows Disk Defragmentation tool was unable to defragment one of the large .gcf files in the Steam directory.
I've had the 320GB WD Caviar SE16 that my system is installed on for about a month. It was part of an update along with an HD3870. Since this update I've been having stability problems such as hard locks in COD4. I have installed Windows XP several times on this drive trying to track down what the problem was. In these previous installs I've noticed that when Windows Defragger fails to defrag a file an entry in my syslog noting a bad block on my hard drive usually appears too. Sure enough it did in this case as well.
So I downloaded Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic Tool. I ran the "Quick Test" which failed shortly. So now I am running an extended test, which is scheduled to complete in about ~1 hour. I'll report back with my result. Hopefully the hard drive is the problem (everything important is backed up elsewhere thank goodness).
I've never had any experience with hard drive problems. From what I have read I think that the extended test should be able to mark bad blocks or sectors (not sure of correct terminology) and prevent their use in the future, resulting in a properly functioning hard drive. Is this correct?
I've had the 320GB WD Caviar SE16 that my system is installed on for about a month. It was part of an update along with an HD3870. Since this update I've been having stability problems such as hard locks in COD4. I have installed Windows XP several times on this drive trying to track down what the problem was. In these previous installs I've noticed that when Windows Defragger fails to defrag a file an entry in my syslog noting a bad block on my hard drive usually appears too. Sure enough it did in this case as well.
So I downloaded Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic Tool. I ran the "Quick Test" which failed shortly. So now I am running an extended test, which is scheduled to complete in about ~1 hour. I'll report back with my result. Hopefully the hard drive is the problem (everything important is backed up elsewhere thank goodness).
I've never had any experience with hard drive problems. From what I have read I think that the extended test should be able to mark bad blocks or sectors (not sure of correct terminology) and prevent their use in the future, resulting in a properly functioning hard drive. Is this correct?
My drive passed the Western Digital Data Lifeguard Extended Diagnostic test. After that I retried the quick test which failed quickly again. So I shut off the computer and did something else for a while. When I got back I booted up the computer and ran the quick test again and it passed!?! Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Do I need to RMA the drive, or is it all right now?
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Let it run for a while -- move a lot of really small files, that'll heat it up. Then run the test again. If it fails when it's hot you need to RMA. If it's fine, might just have been a fluke.
I have been having a similar problem, but I think it is my ram overheating. I too am stable in Orthos (after 8 or so hours I turn it off, I see no point in further abuse as I will never use my computer for 24 hours straight at 100% usage) but sometimes games will lock up in the manner you described. I investigated my components and everything is fairly warm (normal), but the ram literally burns my finger when I touch it. I have a fan coming in the mail that should let me know if that is the problem or not.