Problems during game play

[Athlongamer]

I just put together this system:

Abit NF7-S2
Barton 2500 at 3200 speed
MSI Radeon 9800 Pro
Corsair Value Select 512meg PC3200
Maxtor 250 Diamond Plus 9


But i'll be playing like Doom 3 or UT2k4 or CoD and the screen will go real dim and a screen comes up asking me if I'd like to report this problem to microsoft. And the Options are Send, and Don't Send but i can't click on anything. So i usually restart. And I've also run into another problem........i'll be in the middle of a game and it will just completely shutdown (the game), and i'll be back at my desktop like i never even started the game up.

WTF is going on.

Can anyone help me?

 

[beguile]

I get the same error sometimes too. Maybe your computer is too slow or if you got programs in the background it can cause a crash on your computer.

 

[beguile]

Another problem might be your windows update 2. I just uninstall my windows update 2 and I dont get that error anymore.The options send and dont send doesnt appear ever since I removed windows update 2

 

[Athlongamer]

I kinda dout that my computers to slow

But leaveing things open in the background could be it, i haven't experamented with that yet

???

 

[blodhi74]

go to control panel > admin tools and look @ the event viewer .... it till give U a clue as to what happened ... I am gussing it is happening due to heat ... underclock the CPU back to 2500+ level .... check to see if the HSF on the vid card is free of debris .... open the side panel and then run the games and see it happens again

 

[Grimmett]

I agree with blodhi74. Make sure you underclock everything back down to stock specs before you troubleshoot. Were all these games always causing errors, or just recently? Did you ever play them at stock speeds and get errors?

 

[Athlongamer]

No never played them at stock speeds, i'll try that this afternoon

thanks

 

[Fern]

WTF is going on.

Can anyone help me?

Sounds exactly like an unstable OC. Has it been tested for stability with Prime95?

Fern

 

[Athlongamer]

No, not yet anyway.....i'm really kinda newb. This is my first system, and all i really did to try and OC was change the CPU frequency (i think that was the name of it) to like 200 and then i changed to CPU interface to like Aggressive, but i don't think i'm doing it all right? And i messed with it last night and yeah i think it is an Unstable OC. Can someone give me some tips on how to OC correctly with damaging my CPU.

For some reason on default i can only get 1.1 with a barton 2500. The guy i bought it from said he didn't do much OC'ing. He just ran at default 1.83. But on my older abit NF7-S i could get 1.8 default, and go up to 2.3. IDK if it was stable during game play though.....i didn't have a game to play then. But now i have bought a newer version of the mobo, the NF7-S2. And i can only get 1.1??? for default speed. Is this the begining of my 2500 going out?

Also....when OC'ing, i'm kinda scared to change the voltage cuz i think it might make it burn out faster....should i be???

 

[Fern]

Yes, you'll likely have to increase the vcore (voltage to cpu) to attain a stable OC. Get Motherboard Monitor 5 HERE and install to monitor temps and voltages. It's heat that reduces the lifespan of components, it also causes instability. Prolly a good rule of thumb is not to exceed 60c under load.

The NF7-S2 is different than the NF7-S v.2, and lacks some OCing features. I don't know exactly what features your mobo has. But I have seen some discussion of modded BIOS for it over at nForcersHQ.com in the ABIT nForce section. But you may not need this to OC your desktop Barton, just increase the vcore.

Don't know why it doesn't automatically default your cpu to the proper speed. Perhaps a BIOS update will fix it.

Fern

 

[Athlongamer]

hmm..............well now i have encountered a whole new problem. My computer will post fine, and boot bios fine. But when XP starts to load it gets stuck there. The loading bar still moves and all, but it just never leaves the loading screen no matter how long i leave it running.

Now what would cause that????

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: Athlongamer9800
hmm..............well now i have encountered a whole new problem. My computer will post fine, and boot bios fine. But when XP starts to load it gets stuck there. The loading bar still moves and all, but it just never leaves the loading screen no matter how long i leave it running.

Now what would cause that????

Still unstable (what are you running it at? FSB etc). Or when running an unstable rig, it can corrupt your OS. (So even if you back down the OC it won't help.)

If you're not OC'd now, might try a repair install or whatever you peeps on winXP do (I don't use XP myself).

Fern

 

[Athlongamer]

Well in the bios i currently have it running underclocked to 1.47

And i got this hsf for free, cuz it was a piece of crap volcano 11. It's a quallity hsf it's just that the guy never cleaned it and it looks like crap, and the fan chassi is cracked and it makes a noise cuz the fan is crooked and is barley scrapeing the side of it. So i took it off and found out that the dude had the fan screwed in wrong, and it was suckin air up from the heatsink instead of blowing it into it.........so i tested it the opposite way (the way i've always thought it was supposed to be, atleast) And i haven't locked up yet, and MBM 5 reports my cpu temps, alot lower. So hopefully that was the only thing wrong with it.

we'll see in a couple days

 

[Fern]

LOL man! Glad you sorted that out and it's running better.