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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    I'm not sure what u mean...My friend who built this and oclocked without problems did it because he built his own with the same hardware, he's built many pc's actually and I believed him when he told me it would be fine, so friend, please stop making it out as 'I' did ANYTHING... I did NOT...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    Actually there was no BSOD now that I remember better, just a reboot and the error checker. *U*P*D*A*T*E* Well... I finally managed to turn off the o'clocking...back to 2.2 ghz now, factory default. And so far, not one single crash.. in any game...2-3 more days will be required to be...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    Well, the new case is on, new psu all up and running. Ran some games for about 4 hours and artifacts where gone and no crashes..then I'm playing Pirate, Viking, Knights 2 hl2 mod and BOOM! ...restart and BSOD................ sigh..... back to the drawing board. At this point I'm ready to...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    I clicked "Force" but there was no conformation or anything that it actually did anything. ---Your post about ATI cards, no I don't think your a fanboy, really freaked me out because thats the absolute WORST thing that could happen... sheesh...do you know their policies on repairing/replacing...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    While I'm waiting for the new hardware maybe you guys can tell me some answers on 2 other things: 1) When I put a blank dvd-R in the Optiarc dvd burner, it shows up at a cd-rom drive with no space available on the disc.. 2) 50% of the time when I reboot windows, it boots up at 60hz, even...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    I had artifacts the day I installed the vid card..so any damage was already on the card when I bought it. BTW- I'm getting a new 680 watt psu.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817709015 ..yeah..i'm seriously gonna replace everything in this PC until the problem is...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    Soooo... With CPU/GPU temps not exceeding the 50's, the PC is still crashing in games and rebooting and still showing a few subtle artifacts now and then. Since we know it's not heat now (which I never thought it was actually) that leaves what? Voltage? Meaning maybe my PSU (model is listed...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    Yeah, will do. Ok, so I got Rivatuner and set the fan from auto to 100% and the vid card temps went from 80-90c down to like 30c.. this seemed a bit much (and loud!) so I put it at 75%, now it's in the 40's after running HL2 Episode 2 for a good while. Does this seem reasonable? It's...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    So for now should I leave D.O.T. off, turn Intel EIST on, and System clock to Auto right? Or should I just not touch anything and wait a few weeks until my friend can have a look at it? (He still thinks its a hard drive problem) I think you could be right about the vid card...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    Ok, here's the stuff, right from the order list: GECUBE GC-HD3870XTG4-E3R Radeon HD 3870 512MB 256-bit GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 Allendale 2.2GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80557E4500 - Retail...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    Ok, I decided I cannot wait any longer so I'd like to turn the overclocking OFF.. heres what the 'Cell' menu looks like in my bios: Current CPU Freq: 2949 Mhz Current FSB Freq: 1067 Mhz Current DRAM Freq: 838 Mhz =================== D.O.T. Control: Disabled Intel EIST: Disabled System...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    My friend's theory was my old 80 gig was going bad. So I copied all my games over to my new drive and since then I haven't had a system reset crash, but am still getting just as many crash to desktop crashes. Unless someone can tell me how to reset oclocking back to default it will have to...
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    My pc is a disaster zone.

    My friend upgraded my old PC 6 months ago. He set the overclocking, not me, I'm not comfortable messing with that. Where to begin...sigh... My specs: Core duo oclocked to 2.9 ghz. Single Radeon 3870 card. 2 gig gskills ddr2. 500 watt volcano psu. Running XP Pro SP2, Sp3 not on there...