Possible Hardware related issue dont know though.

[Xeoneex]

Ok, well bare with this becuase this is hard to describe. Ok I play a game called Shadowbane, and City of Villains. I run both full screen at a specific resolution, 1024 x 752 or whatever it is, can't remember exact number off top of my head, but anyway, i get these lock ups, and only for shadowbane. It will freeze the computer for a few seconds if i try to alt tab sometimes. On very rare occasions it will reboot my machine or lock it up completely. Very very rarely on top of that, i hear clicking noises that sound like hardrive clicks when it boots up or shuts down. And just now, about 20 min ago I was playing City of Villains, out of no where my system crashed went berserk. My screen went all colored with funny paterns that were static, the music was scratchy and just eery. I talked with someone who said i could have too many processes running in task manager. Dont know though but, all I know is, i've had loads of issues like this in the past half year or so. I can't tell if my graphics card is goign on me, my ram is bad, or my harddrive is going or whatever. But I need help finding this out and I dont even know where to begin.

 

[conlan]

System specs??

 

[Xeoneex]

AMD athlon 3500 64 bit
480 Antech PSU
Gforce 6800 256
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 for 64 bit CPU
2 512 sticks 3200 ram
5 HD 120, 160, 160, 200 120

 

[Xeoneex]

bump for good measure

 

[Ctrackstar126]

is it an antec or antech PSU

 

[Xeoneex]

Its Antec sorry.

 

[Xeoneex]

nother bump for good measure

 

[Xeoneex]

It just did it again 20 minutes ago. I was gaming, had winamp running a few folders open nothing big, I ran a bittorrent think real fast to grab a file off a website, then my system froze locked up heard what sounded like harddrive clicks then my system rebooted on me. I need help and I can't find any answers. I'm at my wits end now.