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My problem is simply that my computer locks up in games. It does so fairly inconsistently as I will sometimes crash within 10 minutes of loading a game, restart, and crash after 10 minutes again. Sometimes i'll play all day without crashing, but that doesn't happen often anymore. When I crash it is a hard lockup. The screen freezes at the last frame and I usually get an annoying repetitive sound that I can't really describe other than saying it's what you'd expect from a computer locking up. I've only ever crashed while I've had a game running such as Oblivion, BFBC2, Dragon Age, and even SC2, though for some reason, never League of Legends. I have had it scare me a couple times outside of a game by stuttering and giving me that sound real quick, but it has always recovered.
Anyways, 3-6 months ago (ya, my timeline is really vague here but I don't think it matters in the end) my vid card was having some problems, eventually refusing to work at startup, so I baked it according to the famous thread in the vid card section, and it worked again. When I started having these crashing problems some point between then and a month ago, I figured it was definitely the vid card. Well I drove out to a friends house yesterday to pick up his old 8800gt as a replacement, expecting that to be the solution, and when I plugged it in and tested it, it crashes just as fast.
From there I tried a buncha random things such as driver sweeper, different cables, blowing dust out of the PCI slot. Nothing worked, so I started thinking it may be the motherboard/CPU. I'm running my AMD 64 x2 6400+ at stock with stock cooling, and never seriously tried OCing it. So I picked up the Intel Burn Test, which I guess is fine for anything x86/x64, and ran that. After completing 1/5 of the tests, my system locks up with both cores at 95c+. I know...scary. I could almost use my cpu to boil water. So I'm thinking that might have something to do with the crashing, since I really haven't been running anything CPU intensive other than games. Other info that might be important: CPU runs at a bit under 50c idle, and I've run memtest fairly recently without any failures.
What do you guys think?
Assuming there is something wrong with my mobo/cpu, I was thinking of trying to get my hands on a used LGA 775 mobo + q6600 in the FS forum. I've got about $200 to work with, but I could go up to $300 if it would get me something substantially better. Any suggestions there? I'm kinda looking forward to the upgrade even though I had been hoping to save for an I7. I'll have to cancel my order for an Auzentech forte though, which I've been wanting for a long time.
Any help is appreciated.
Anyways, 3-6 months ago (ya, my timeline is really vague here but I don't think it matters in the end) my vid card was having some problems, eventually refusing to work at startup, so I baked it according to the famous thread in the vid card section, and it worked again. When I started having these crashing problems some point between then and a month ago, I figured it was definitely the vid card. Well I drove out to a friends house yesterday to pick up his old 8800gt as a replacement, expecting that to be the solution, and when I plugged it in and tested it, it crashes just as fast.
From there I tried a buncha random things such as driver sweeper, different cables, blowing dust out of the PCI slot. Nothing worked, so I started thinking it may be the motherboard/CPU. I'm running my AMD 64 x2 6400+ at stock with stock cooling, and never seriously tried OCing it. So I picked up the Intel Burn Test, which I guess is fine for anything x86/x64, and ran that. After completing 1/5 of the tests, my system locks up with both cores at 95c+. I know...scary. I could almost use my cpu to boil water. So I'm thinking that might have something to do with the crashing, since I really haven't been running anything CPU intensive other than games. Other info that might be important: CPU runs at a bit under 50c idle, and I've run memtest fairly recently without any failures.
What do you guys think?
Assuming there is something wrong with my mobo/cpu, I was thinking of trying to get my hands on a used LGA 775 mobo + q6600 in the FS forum. I've got about $200 to work with, but I could go up to $300 if it would get me something substantially better. Any suggestions there? I'm kinda looking forward to the upgrade even though I had been hoping to save for an I7. I'll have to cancel my order for an Auzentech forte though, which I've been wanting for a long time.
Any help is appreciated.
