Reboot while playing 3D games

[Zelius]

Recently I'm having problems while playing any 3D game. The system just shows a blanc blue screen (just blue with no error message) and reboots. This happens without a warning and leads me to believe it has something to do with my videocard/drivers. Here's my system:

Athlon 64 3000+
ASUS AX800 Pro/TD
Latest Omega drivers (www.omegadrivers.net)
DirectX 9.0c

Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

[Gravity]

PSU? How much power is avail for the card?

Also, is your cooling up to par? Sometimes heat can cause a spontaneous shutdown/reboot.

 

[Zelius]

I have a Thermaltake 360W PSU. I checked the voltages and everything seems to be okay. It can't be my cooling either, as I have 7 casefans in there and the temperature inside the case rarely goes over 35 degrees C.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Make sure none of the case fans share power with the video card, and maybe try disconnecting a few.

 

[imported_goku]

I dunno, your setup looks like a real power hog. Problem is I dont think you were able to check your systems rails while it was about to crash. I have run a Radeon 9800PRo with a 350Watt PSU but it was on a celeron 1.4GHZ. You say you have 7 case fans! Jeez thats agian a lot of power, by it self its not too much but this is coupled with a Athlon 64 3000 (Amd's are power hogs), X800Pro (I think more power consumption than a R9800pro) and other drives aswell.

My system (in sig) originally had a 350Watt Generic PSU and the system when with the Celeron 1.4GHZ ran fine since It wasn't OC'ed and there wasn't a Radeon 9800Pro. Now when I got the new setup (Same case/PSU/Drives) the system agian didn't encounter issues like yours but the rails were low which didn't affect the system too much but when you tried to Overclock it, it was a real bitch (very long story). Got the new PSU and the rails were still low and I was very pissed, so I got a multimeter and checked them, turns out they were actually 5V on the dot (can't vouch for the generic PSU though) thing I did noticed after the change in PSU was that my Overclocks were much more stable and didn't even require Vcore increases. In your case your system is rebooting which could be caused from the fact you have greater power consumption compared to my situation. So I say get a better PSU like min 430WATT, but to avoid this agian I would get a 480WATT.

Have fun

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: Zelius
I have a Thermaltake 360W PSU. I checked the voltages and everything seems to be okay. It can't be my cooling either, as I have 7 casefans in there and the temperature inside the case rarely goes over 35 degrees C.

If you wanna check the psu/power, install motherboard monitor 5 and run the "sys log" feature. Have it record every one second to the text.doc. When it crashes, reboot and go to the text.doc in the mbm5 file and look for flucuations on the psu's rails.

If you changed/reinstalled drivers before this happened, look for a bad driver install as the problem.

 

[SwiftWind]

try running each memory stick seperately and see if it continues. If it does, might want to try another video card if you have one. Also, what other cards do you have installed? you might want to try and run without any other pci cards in there. If still no luck, do you have a temp monitor on the card by any chance? Worse case scenario is that your video card's stock heatsink might not be enough..I've seen that happen on a few ATI Cards.

 

[Zelius]

Alright here's what's up so far... I don't have any other card in my system. That X800 is the only one. The fans are all connected to a fanspeed controller so nothing's wrong there. Also, the X800 is running on its own power cord so nothing else is connected to it.

Alright, after checking all this, I ran ASUS PC Probe (came with me mobo) and checked the voltages. Nothing wrong. I then ran some ATI real-time test demos for the X800 and afterwards I checked the voltage log. Everything was really steady.

I still have the idea that this is a software issue. As I said, it's not like my system just reboots without a warning. I get a blue screen as if an error occurred, except there's no error message on the blue screen. Also, after the reboot, I get a message saying "Windows recovered from a fatar error", which I forgot to mention earlier.

Luckily, this problem doesn't occur so often, only once every week or so.

 

[SwiftWind]

did you try each memory stick seperately yet? also, be sure to update all your drivers.

 

[Zelius]

No, I haven't tried that one yet. But I don't think it has anything to do with that, as it only occurs while playing games and not while running any RAM-stressing applications. Drivers are all up-to-date by the way.

 

[Zelius]

bump

 

[Fern]

Try removing/installing driver again.

I had a similar problem caused by doing a bad install. When I updated, I got message saying something to the effect " warning the file you are about to replace is newer. Do you want to keep the newer file? Recommended Yes"

Well, the instructions clearly say not to do this. I was paying enough attention and clicked on the "yes". I ended up with a "mixed driver". I caught my mistake the second time through and my problems went away.

Might be worth a shot at this point.

Good Luck with it.

Fern