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Locking Up

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Grimbone

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Hi,

I am having problems with my computer locking up only when i play games. I can keep my system on for 72 hours straight but as soon as i play a game it will randomly lockup 15mins upto 2 hours into playing. This has only been happening within the last 3 weeks and cannot figure out the problem. The computer has been running without a hiccup for bout 8 months. My system spec are as followed...

WinXP Pro
AMD 64 3200+
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
1 gig ram
2 6800gt running in sli
74 gig raptor drive
Energymax 600w power supply

Now, im mostly play WoW and recently have been just locking up, hearing the sound studder and have to do a hard reboot. I thought it may be a WoW problem but i have also just experienced the same problem while playing CoH.

Any Ideas on what the problem maybe or how i can go about taking steps to troubleshoot this? Thx!

 
I'll try the comp with one stick of ram and then with the other and that still happends I'll try to run memtest. If you have overclock put all the setting in the manufactor setting back to default. Do you have latest drivers of nvida and microsoft.
 
I will try with 1 stick of ram. Just some info... i have all the lastest drivers and nothing is overclocked, everything is default. The ram is also running in dual channel.
 
Ok i havent tried swapping 1 stick of memory out yet but let me give a little update. I did a reformat and new install of winxp pro. I figured i like to do a fresh install every 6 month and was a bit over due. After the install the computer ran fine all nite and i left it on over nite. I got up played some HL2 for about an hour and a half and then a bit of WoW. 15 mins into a game of WoW, BAM frozen and had to reboot. I reboot and login to WoW again and have had no problems for about 2 hours. This would leave me to believe it was WoW causing the problem but i had the same exact thing happen 2 days ago when i was playing CoH.

Is there a mem test anyone can suggest i run instead of taking a stick out or should i just take a stick out and hope for the best? Also cant anyone else think of what it could be?

Thx!
 
Originally posted by: Grimbone
Ok i havent tried swapping 1 stick of memory out yet but let me give a little update. I did a reformat and new install of winxp pro. I figured i like to do a fresh install every 6 month and was a bit over due. After the install the computer ran fine all nite and i left it on over nite. I got up played a bit of WoW and 15 mins in BAM frozen and had to reboot. I reboot and login again and have had no problems for about 2 hours.

Is there a mem test anyone can suggest i run instead of taking a stick out or should i just take a stick out and hope for the best? Also cant anyone else think of what it could be?

Thx!
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The ultimate bootdisk should have every test you should need. I can't really think of anything that stands out. Maybe you should try running the games just from your hard drive.
 
Honestly that sounds like an SLI issue.

Do you have the 4pin connector in the motherboard near the SLI slots? It sure sounds like your vid cards are not getting enough power and causing a reboot. Do you have the latest 1007 bios from asus?

Good luck
 
Originally posted by: Grimbone
What do you mean by running the games from just my hard drive?
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Well you said that your computer could run for hours on end, i assume that you are not using the cd rom at that time. When you play a game and use the cd rom i thought there was a chance that somthing was going wrong. However an SLI issue is more likely
 
Yes i do have the 4 pin connector in the motherboard. I will check on what version of the bios i have bt i am pretty sure i have the latest version. One other this that is odd is i cannot install asus probe. When i do it says scanning for sys info the just cancels the install.
 
OK, my bios seems to be 1009-002. Can i just safely roll back the bios to 1007 by updating it from the 1007 file i downloaded?

*EDIT*

I just downloaded version 1013. I will see what happens with this version.
 
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