Games Freeze

[GoldFiles]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with my new comp. It has worked for about a month with no probs, but now it locks up sometimes during games. Counter Stirke and Call of Duty. The whole comp locks up: screen, mouse, keyboard lights, everything. I usually press the restart button, but if I wait about 5minutes, then it will usually wake back up.

I have no programs running in the background. I run catalyst 4.10 from ATI.

Specs:

msi neo2 platinum socket 939
amd fx53 socket 939
1gb xtra low latency corsair 2-2-2-5 ram
x800 xt pe built by ati
windows xp pro sp1

I have no idea what could be causing this sort of problem. It only locks up in games, so i think that it may be the x800, but i dont know what exactly is up or how to go about fixing it. If anyone has had a similar experience, please help

Thanks!

 

[Balt]

The easiest possible cause to eliminate first would be the sound card. Try disabling sound in the game and seeing if it still locks up.

Does this happen in single player games as well as multiplayer? You could also eliminate the NIC by looping a demo (I'm not sure if this is possible in Call of Duty, but you can record/play in cstrike) in single player to see if the problem occurs.

Did you upgrade any drivers shortly before this began to occur?

 

[GoldFiles]

comp frooze again when playing counter strike. i restart, and it freezes at the windows boot logo.

in the past week, i have flashed bios, updated to 4.10 catalyst ati drivers, and updated motherboard drivers. i rolled back to 4.9 catalyst. that didn't work.

can i go backwards in bios flashing? and mobo updates?

 

[GoldFiles]

It just frooze again. I went into Computer Management (in control panel) and choose the "event viewer" tab. Came up with a few errors. Any idea what these mean?

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
atapi
PCIIde

The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser master \\KILLERJACK9 on the network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{38EAF482-E5CA-443D-B79B-CC380C2A326F}. The data is the error code.

 

[imported_JeReMY]

Reinstall direct x.

 

[Balt]

Are you running any AV software?

If you're sure that you're not infected with something (I'd run both a virus scan and ad-aware/spybot s&d), I'd uninstall all of your vid drivers, then reinstall all of your motherboard drivers, then reinstall your vid drivers.

 

[GoldFiles]

DID
1. Ran AV and anti-spyware
2. Reinstalled DirectX
3. Reinstalled MOBO drivers
4. Reinstalled video drivers
5. rolled back to old vid drivers
6. rolled back to old mobo drivers
7. Did a memtest
8. Defraged
8. ScanDisk (chkdsk)
9. Uninstalled EVERYTHING that was not essential to me

PLAN TO DO TOMMOROW
1. Roll back bios
2. Swap ram sticks with an older 256mb ddr
3. Swap out the x800 xt pe with a Radeon 7200 (lol)
4. Completely uninstall all drivers from control panel > system > hardware then reinstall them one by one
5. reinstall windows
6. wipe the HD and start fresh
7. Beat my $3000 computer with a hammer

 

[GoldFiles]

yes, the older bios did work!

 

[Balt]

Good! Glad you got it worked out. :beer: