Big first post, heh, and I would like to apologize ahead of time due to the length of what I'm gonna say since this problem has been a catastrophe for me (gaming wise) for the last few months (And I have yet to find the cure).
I will be playing games with my buddies (Counterstrike 1.6, CS:S, or World of Warcraft), and sometimes it even occurs when I am on my desktop. The problem can pop up in 10 minutes to even 3-5 hours after I've turned on my computer, so basically it is random and the only way I've found to fix it is a reboot because it remains even after I've exited the games. What will happen is that my frames per second will drop from around 150 down to 5-20 maximum, and my CPU Usage will remain seated at ~50%. These values stay until I restart my computer.
The temperatures on all my hardware are the same as normal when it happens, but core #1 fluctuates from 85-100% constantly, and around ~30% of my cpu is being taken by 'Hardware Interruptions' and ~20% being taken by 'Deferred Procedure Calls'.
The first thing I tried to mess around with was my sound card (Audigy 2 ZS). I took it out, got the problem, used my onboard sound, got the problem, and even got the problem disabling sound. Taking that into account I decided any of the sound hardware \ drivers weren't causing the problem. After that, I moved to my CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+), and made a stupid mistake of buying another cpu because I thought a core was bad since the second one was fluctuating during the problem. Once again, problem still occured, and I have a processor I get to put on eBaY. The third thing I've noticed was that it could be the ram (2x G.Skill 1gb sticks), maybe one of them may be corrupt. After memtest86+ showing nothing, which I'll comment on later, I actually moved to one stick of ram and had a night of no problems. I came to the conclusion that my motherboard was having problems with dual channeling my ram (because it wasn't giving me problems with 1 stick, but I wanted two in), so I flashed my bios and for about 3-4 days dual channeling it went smooth smooth. Thats basically where I am now, and it has started to occur again every time I want to play a game for more than 20 minutes at a time. Actually have to laugh now, because it just happened while I'm typin this up
, cpu currently at 65%.. meh.
What I've done to try and solve this problem (hardware issues I tried to address listed in above paragraph)
-Reformat my computer, it was happening before I reformatted as well.
-There is no viruses \ adware on my computer as I run those religiously.
-Have ran memtest86+ for ~4 hours with no errors being shown.
-Updated my BIOS, disabled anything that could be conflicting, and have tried optimized settings.
-Plug in everything securely, making sure everything is all tight knit in their sockets.
- This is a previous thread I posted on Tom's Hardware Forum before I signed up here tonight. Link to my other thread
*Unsure about if pictures can be posted in these forums, but the link above has some I have taken listing CPU-Z, my processor monitor when the problem is occuring, and what the task manager shows when it happens.
Specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
eVGA 8800GTX 768mb
2x 1gb G.Skill Ram
Corsair 520w psu
Audigy 2 zs
WD 320gb sata hdd
gigabyte m55sli-s4 (rev 1.0) mobo
antec 900 case
Thats the gist of the problem, and to reiterate from the topic that this is extremely frustrating since I generally only use my computer for gaming purposes. I purchased and built my computer last July (so it's a fairly new rig), so I kinda expected to have a few years of non problematic experiences before I upgrade in the future.
If you guys read this far I seriously appreciate it. To be a little vulgar this problem has been nothing less than an absolute bitch to me. The computer shops I've called around to have said that it is extremely hard to diagnose these types of problems and it would take a long time. But to get back to the topic, I really appreciate any feedback I get back, and expect to back as soon as I see it, thanks a bunch!
I will be playing games with my buddies (Counterstrike 1.6, CS:S, or World of Warcraft), and sometimes it even occurs when I am on my desktop. The problem can pop up in 10 minutes to even 3-5 hours after I've turned on my computer, so basically it is random and the only way I've found to fix it is a reboot because it remains even after I've exited the games. What will happen is that my frames per second will drop from around 150 down to 5-20 maximum, and my CPU Usage will remain seated at ~50%. These values stay until I restart my computer.
The temperatures on all my hardware are the same as normal when it happens, but core #1 fluctuates from 85-100% constantly, and around ~30% of my cpu is being taken by 'Hardware Interruptions' and ~20% being taken by 'Deferred Procedure Calls'.
The first thing I tried to mess around with was my sound card (Audigy 2 ZS). I took it out, got the problem, used my onboard sound, got the problem, and even got the problem disabling sound. Taking that into account I decided any of the sound hardware \ drivers weren't causing the problem. After that, I moved to my CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+), and made a stupid mistake of buying another cpu because I thought a core was bad since the second one was fluctuating during the problem. Once again, problem still occured, and I have a processor I get to put on eBaY. The third thing I've noticed was that it could be the ram (2x G.Skill 1gb sticks), maybe one of them may be corrupt. After memtest86+ showing nothing, which I'll comment on later, I actually moved to one stick of ram and had a night of no problems. I came to the conclusion that my motherboard was having problems with dual channeling my ram (because it wasn't giving me problems with 1 stick, but I wanted two in), so I flashed my bios and for about 3-4 days dual channeling it went smooth smooth. Thats basically where I am now, and it has started to occur again every time I want to play a game for more than 20 minutes at a time. Actually have to laugh now, because it just happened while I'm typin this up
, cpu currently at 65%.. meh. What I've done to try and solve this problem (hardware issues I tried to address listed in above paragraph)
-Reformat my computer, it was happening before I reformatted as well.
-There is no viruses \ adware on my computer as I run those religiously.
-Have ran memtest86+ for ~4 hours with no errors being shown.
-Updated my BIOS, disabled anything that could be conflicting, and have tried optimized settings.
-Plug in everything securely, making sure everything is all tight knit in their sockets.
- This is a previous thread I posted on Tom's Hardware Forum before I signed up here tonight. Link to my other thread
*Unsure about if pictures can be posted in these forums, but the link above has some I have taken listing CPU-Z, my processor monitor when the problem is occuring, and what the task manager shows when it happens.
Specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
eVGA 8800GTX 768mb
2x 1gb G.Skill Ram
Corsair 520w psu
Audigy 2 zs
WD 320gb sata hdd
gigabyte m55sli-s4 (rev 1.0) mobo
antec 900 case
Thats the gist of the problem, and to reiterate from the topic that this is extremely frustrating since I generally only use my computer for gaming purposes. I purchased and built my computer last July (so it's a fairly new rig), so I kinda expected to have a few years of non problematic experiences before I upgrade in the future.
If you guys read this far I seriously appreciate it. To be a little vulgar this problem has been nothing less than an absolute bitch to me. The computer shops I've called around to have said that it is extremely hard to diagnose these types of problems and it would take a long time. But to get back to the topic, I really appreciate any feedback I get back, and expect to back as soon as I see it, thanks a bunch!
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