Games freezing...

[RSanders]

I have been having some difficulty playing games lately. I have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. I have 768MB of ram and Athlon 64 2800+.

I play SimCity4, Counter-Strike (1.6), Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour, and NBA Live 2005. It hasn't froze on SimCity4 and C&C Generals yet, but I imagine it will sometime.

So far, it has frozen 3 times on CS (last 3 times I played) and 2 times on NBA Live (out of like 4 times). What happens, is the screen will just freeze, and it will start making this noise.. Like "Eeeeeeeh".. heh.

Anyway, This is annoying and I have to restart the computer to get it back up. I have tried different drivers.

So.. any help is appreciative.

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: RSanders
I have been having some difficulty playing games lately. I have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. I have 768MB of ram and Athlon 64 2800+.

I play SimCity4, Counter-Strike (1.6), Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour, and NBA Live 2005. It hasn't froze on SimCity4 and C&C Generals yet, but I imagine it will sometime.

So far, it has frozen 3 times on CS (last 3 times I played) and 2 times on NBA Live (out of like 4 times). What happens, is the screen will just freeze, and it will start making this noise.. Like "Eeeeeeeh".. heh.

Anyway, This is annoying and I have to restart the computer to get it back up. I have tried different drivers.

So.. any help is appreciative.

Thanks,
Ryan

Hmm, why do you think this is a video problem? Unless this problem is specifically related to a video issue, it does not belong in this forum.

 

[RSanders]

Because it only happens when I play games using my VIDEO card. I thought I mentioned that it happens when playing games. I just thought this would be a video issue.


BTW, If you want to get technical about it.. You said "it does not belong on this forum." Are you saying that I shouldn't post these kind of problems on this forum, Anandtech's forums. Anyway, that was just me getting technical.

If any others think that this is a video issue, please comment, otherwise, can someone move it to the General Hardware category of the forum?

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: RSanders
Because it only happens when I play games using my VIDEO card. I thought I mentioned that it happens when playing games. I just thought this would be a video issue.


BTW, If you want to get technical about it.. You said "it does not belong on this forum." Are you saying that I shouldn't post these kind of problems on this forum, Anandtech's forums. Anyway, that was just me getting technical.

If any others think that this is a video issue, please comment, otherwise, can someone move it to the General Hardware category of the forum?

Well, since it seems like it could be a number of problems, including video, please disregard my earlier comment. I'll just try to help as best I can. You say you hear a noise. I've never heard of a video card emitting an "eeeeh" sound. Does the sound come from the speakers?

 

[RSanders]

I know it isn't the videocard. It is pretty loud, and it is either the speakers or something in the computer. I have more confidence that it is coming from the speakers. I never really thought about that because I would always instantly press reset on the front of my case.

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: RSanders
I know it isn't the videocard. It is pretty loud, and it is either the speakers or something in the computer. I have more confidence that it is coming from the speakers. I never really thought about that because I would always instantly press reset on the front of my case.

OK, are you overclocking anything at all?

 

[RSanders]

Nope. Someone just told me to turn off ATI Recovery and then do a clean delete of all my video drivers and reinstall. So I have done that. I am going to test those games tomorrow when I get home and see what happens.

 

[AristoV300]

Try turning off FastWrite also.

 

[smashinbum]

I had the same problem occuring on my system when I played either Half-Life 2 or Far Cry. I have an Athlon XP 2100+ (upgrading soon) and a Radeon 9800. It ended up being a problem with my Ram, since I have 2 sticks of different brand name modules. To fix it, I played with the timings and different settings until it worked. I've also heard of people resolving the same problem by switching to a better power supply.