Issues - Games Crashing - Hardware problems?

[Jon855]

My specs are :

Antec True Power II 550w
Asus A8R MVP
AMS X2 3800
2x1gig OCZ pc3200
Sapphire x1900xtx w/ lastest Omega drivers

And the game will quit after playing for a while. Any kinds of 3d games, it just goes right back to the desktop. I was looking around for anything similiar to this but I couldn't find anything just yet which'll pinpoint the issue on hand.

I can run 3dmark05 and 06 all the way without any problems... My cpu loads at only about 44c...

After classes today I'll be rewiring the entire system to make sure I've everything plugged in.

EDITED: The games will crash regardless of the drivers that I have and also I have unoverclocked my cpu back to default. I've disabled the Overdrive for the graphic card to debug the issue, doesn't seems to be helping at all.

 

[haste]

u try putting every back at stock settings? i noticed u have your cpu overclocked...

 

[Jon855]

u try putting every back at stock settings? i noticed u have your cpu overclocked...

Yeah I have it at all default now.

 

[LordVampyre]

how steady are those Omega drivers? wonder if that could be part of it?

 

[Jon855]

how steady are those Omega drivers? wonder if that could be part of it?

Alrighty, I forgot to add a vital information, no matter the drivers they all crash.

 

[Tigerbiten]

One possiblity is bad memory.
Try running three loops of Memtest to check it out.

If you pull up any errors while running the test you may well have found the problem.

Luck.........

 

[Jon855]

One possiblity is bad memory.
Try running three loops of Memtest to check it out.

If you pull up any errors while running the test you may well have found the problem.

Luck.........

Anyway to test the ram without memtest?

 

[Nasty_Savage]

Look up Ultimate Boot CD on google, they have memory tests off the cd. My bet is you're Power Supply is flaking, try moving the molex to a different rail so there's limited or nothing else on that chain. I had an issue when I moved that I put a thinner power cord into the back of my PSU when I unpacked everything and my games would crash as soon as the 3d accelerator kicked in. It may have something to do with the power supply...

 

[Jon855]

I've found the cause of the problem Apparently, the video card's fan doesn't even run above 10% so I used ATITools to force the fan to adjust based on temps and I'm proud to say that not once it exceeds 60c at full load and the fan's not even running 100% at the temps it's at under full load

My temp = fan configs are the following
Above 0c = 50%
Above 55c = 77%
Above 60c = 100%

This will send my vpu into the 40's at idle and max of 57-59 under load