Half Life 2 locking up system...

[DVad3r]

Ok, my half life 2 keeps locking up. I am playing for a bit, like around 5 min, and then I see a bunch of graphical glitches appearing on screen, slowly and then more and more come. It looks similar to graphical glitches that you would get from a high vid card OC or something. My vid card is running at stock speeds and my cpu is overclocked, but I ran it at stock speed also and the game still locks up and freezes my system forcing me to power down and reboot. My current system specs are:

3200 winchester @ 2.5 250x10
1 gig OCZ pc4000 ram 2x512
MSI 6600 GT pci-e vid card
160 gig serial ATA hd
sound blaster audigy 2 zs platinum
Asus SLI-Deluxe motherboard

I run half life 2 at 1280x1024 max max detail all cept AA/AF, the game runs silky smooth but freezes up my system ! What can I do ?

 

[warcrow]

Sounds like there might be a temp issue. Is one of the fans broke? Also, make sure you disable "Fast write" in the bios.

 

[DVad3r]

Where do I find Fast Write in the Sli-deluxe bios ?

 

[DVad3r]

Also one more thing, I can't seem to find a program to show me my video card temp, and the MSI one is useless, do you know any that read pci-e cards on SLI boards? Thanks.

 

[warcrow]

Its in the nVidia display properties panel, so right click desktop, properties, settings )tab), advanced...and poke around.

In you BIOS, I have no idea where it is except for the fact that its somewhere in the chipset/AGP properties.

 

[DVad3r]

Ok wow, I just played a bit of world of warcraft and ran around outside, minimizing to check on temps in nvidia control panel, and they jump to 90 C !!!, normal is 47 and it only goes up. It must fry in half life 2, is that a high temperature?

 

[warcrow]

Yikes, thats a bit too high. Open up your case, ground yourself before touching anything (just touch the metal case), and then check to make sure the fan is working on that card.

 

[DVad3r]

The fan is working, I checked with my flashlight and its spinning. I just tested half life 2 and the temps went to extreme !!! 127 is my core slowdown warning, and it went up to that, I think thats when the game locks up and crashes my system. Wow this is ridiculous, are all the msi 6600 GT pci-e cards like this or just mine ?

 

[warcrow]

No, they're not all like this. If you're sure the heatsink and fan are working properly, I think you need to RMA this card.