Dear Anandtech community.
I am writing to you because I've had a serious problem with my PC for the last two months. I am running a 520W Trust (yeah, not too great I know) PSU and an ATI 4850 1gb card.
My full specs are, from DXDIAG
<System tab
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Proffessional (5.1, build 2600)
Processor: Intel (R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50 GHz (4 CPUs)
Memory: 3070 MB RAM
DirectX Version: Direct X 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Display tab
Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6936 (Engelsk)
Driver Date: 16-03-2009 22:26:14
Driver DDI Version: ati2mtag.sys
DirectDraw Acceleration: Activated
Direct3D Acceleration: Activated
AGP Texture Acceleration: Activated
The problem
Whenever I do something high-graphical (Like Oblivion on High/Ultra High) my system randomly crashes. The crash I get is in form of a weird pictures of vertical or horizontal lines on my screen; the color is often different. The sound from the ½ second before the crash will loop and keep playing, and my system does not respond to anything at ALL. So I have to do a hard reboot by holding down the power button. I have never experianced this while not doing anything graphical, like browsing the net, I have however experianed it while doing a stresstest with ATITool.
Any solutions/tips/help? I REALLY appreciate it.
Thanks loads in advance,
Nicolai
I am writing to you because I've had a serious problem with my PC for the last two months. I am running a 520W Trust (yeah, not too great I know) PSU and an ATI 4850 1gb card.
My full specs are, from DXDIAG
<System tab
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Proffessional (5.1, build 2600)
Processor: Intel (R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50 GHz (4 CPUs)
Memory: 3070 MB RAM
DirectX Version: Direct X 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Display tab
Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6936 (Engelsk)
Driver Date: 16-03-2009 22:26:14
Driver DDI Version: ati2mtag.sys
DirectDraw Acceleration: Activated
Direct3D Acceleration: Activated
AGP Texture Acceleration: Activated
The problem
Whenever I do something high-graphical (Like Oblivion on High/Ultra High) my system randomly crashes. The crash I get is in form of a weird pictures of vertical or horizontal lines on my screen; the color is often different. The sound from the ½ second before the crash will loop and keep playing, and my system does not respond to anything at ALL. So I have to do a hard reboot by holding down the power button. I have never experianced this while not doing anything graphical, like browsing the net, I have however experianed it while doing a stresstest with ATITool.
Any solutions/tips/help? I REALLY appreciate it.
Thanks loads in advance,
Nicolai