what could the problem be?

[T3C]

Im working on a customers machine, Half Life and Ghost recon freeze up after about 10 min of play. I have switched out the video card, and that did not solve the problem. The video card in the machine now is an ATIradeon 8500 128MB.
Im ghosting the hard drive right now to try it on another drive.

Any ideas???


Thanks
-CYBPNK

 

[thuned]

Is the hdd hot? How about the cpu?

 

[Markfw]

What are the system specs ? How hot does the case and the cpu get ? What are the voltages out of the psu ?

My first two guesses in order without any other information to go on:
1) Video card is heating up too much
2) Voltages are getting low after constant drain due to psu being insufficeint

 

[T3C]

well, i really dont think its the video card getting 2 hot, like i said i have switched it out, the machine is running opened case right now, and there are plenty of fans..

Athlon 1.2
Win98
256DDR
40GB HD
Epox 8k5a2 Board

 

[T3C]

also it is the only program running

 

[minendo]

Did you install the Halflife ATI patch? What kind of temps is the processor hitting while playing the games?

 

[T3C]

no i didint, do you have a link to that?

 

[Roots]

I had a similar problem where I couldn't play any games at all on my machine (see below). After two weeks of searching I raised the CAS latency to 2.5 and the AGP voltage to 1.7 on my BIOS, and I haven't heard from the problem since then. Don't know if its the same error as yours, but its worth a shot

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: cybpnk
no i didint, do you have a link to that?

http://www.ninja-association.co.uk/csfaq/links/general/general_links.htm

 

[T3C]

well, i havent had a chance to try that yet, but i just put a BIG ASS fan on the processor and i have been playing for about 8 min ok

 

[T3C]

Ok, that didnt work, it choked yet again,

No im trying it with a new processor an XP 2200+

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: cybpnk
Ok, that didnt work, it choked yet again,

No im trying it with a new processor an XP 2200+

What did not work? The patch or the new fan? Have you tested the ram at all?

 

[T3C]

Just replaced the ram, and put that new processor in it, it still chocked after about 10 min of game play,
So far i have tried,

New video card, w/ patch w/ out patch
New ram
New processor, Ghosted data over to a diffrent HD and tried it on that, same problem

This is starting to bug me, i dont know where to go next here

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: cybpnk
Just replaced the ram, and put that new processor in it, it still chocked after about 10 min of game play,
So far i have tried,

New video card, w/ patch w/ out patch
New ram
New processor, Ghosted data over to a diffrent HD and tried it on that, same problem

This is starting to bug me, i dont know where to go next here

Mobo. PSU. Video drivers (doubt that is the problem).

 

[T3C]

The guy just called me, and wants me to build him a new gaming machine,, WOOHOO thank god im getting sick of this damn thing, thanks for the help!

 

[HappyCracker]

I think Roots had it. The video card might not be getting enough juice. But you don't neeeed that anymore. I'd try it anyways. That would nag me all night if I never got it to work