Problem: Games Crashing To Desktop

[GasX]

I just built this machine and have updated all drivers - video, sound, mobo, bios.

Both the Doom3 Demo and Battlefield 1942 have both crashed to desktop after about 10 minutes of play. What is the likely cause?


Rig:
CPU: AMD AMD Athlon Mobile XP 2400+ 1667MHz @ 2200MHz
Motherboard: Shuttle AN35N ULTRA
Memory: 1024 MB of Corsair Value Select PC3200 - running at 400MHz dual channel mode
Video Card: Sapphire 9600 Pro 256MB ATI Radeon
Hard Drive: Seagate ST3160023A-RK 160.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS
Monitor: Dell 2100FP
DVD R/W: Optorite 8X DVD+RW/-RW
Storage Interface: IDE,USB,USB2
Sound Card: SoudBlaster Audigy
Operating System: WinXP Pro SP2

 

[Sonic587]

Are your temps ok? Does Prime95 pass successfully?

 

[vanish]

Is there an error message? or, it might be your processor overclock. eh?

 

[GasX]

getting prime95 now.

maybe I should up the voltage? Let's see what the stress test says...

 

[GasX]

Mersenne.org is down... 🙁

 

[Sonic587]

Can you try Sandra's CPU burn test? 3Dmark01 is also good for stressing the CPU.

 

[GasX]

Sandra stopped almost immediately showing an alert next to the core voltage: 1.57 volts

any recommendations on a new setting?

 

[Sonic587]

Up CPU voltage slightly and then test for stability. Rinse and repeat until it's stable.

 

[Tiamat]

yeah, you may need something like 1.625V or even 1.675v to obtain stability at that speed. Good Luck!

 

[drag]

It's probably bad ram.

Go here and download the diagnostic cdrom image. Burn it to a cdrom and boot off of it. Let it run for a couple hours. If you get any errors you have a 95% chance of bad ram.

Then figure out which ram module is bad and remove it. That should solve your crashing issues.

 

[GasX]

Sandra's alert comes because the stock voltage for this CPU is 1.45. When I had it set to "Auto" Sandra detected 1.57. I cranked it up to 1.625 and Sandra detects that, but it still doesn't run and shows an alert next to the voltage...

 

[GasX]

Prime95 was running all day while I was out.

No problems there...

 

[GasX]

I just woke up and PC had succesfully completed 43 passes of SiSoft Sandra...

Max CPU temp was 40 degrees

 

[Toro 45]

When your system is at stock speeds, does it crash to the desktop? If so you'll need more voltage on your overclock like mentioned above