What the hell is wrong with my computer?

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SpokeLee

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Ok I have had this computer built just sitting for a few months here as I coudn't figure out whats been wrong with it and haven't had the time.

For some reason any 3d application I run crashes my computer. I have tried doom 3, farcry, theif 2, 3d mark 2003 and 2005, they all do the same thing. They'll run fine for five or so minutes then lock up everything, boot me to the desktop, or give me a blue screen crash. I have a bfg 6800uoc, and I switched that out with a x800 xt pe and had the same exact problem, I have rolled back direct x, updated it, dled different drives, you name it, reinstalled multiple times to reset the irqs, made sure the cpu fans were facing the right way, aimed huge fans at it, im sure its not overheating, as my case has eleven fans, 7 120mm fans and 4 80mm. I can do video editing fine, but 3d mark and games just crash in those 3 ways, bluescreen, complete freeze, or crash to the desktop.

Here are the components:

510 w pc power and cooling turbocool delux psu
tyan tiger k8w s2875 mobo
dual opteron 250's
pqi turbo reg ecc 2 gigs (1gigx2)
bfg 6800uoc
sb augigy 2 zs
matrox rt.x100 xtreme
74 gig raptor and a 300 gig maxtor with the 16meg cache
Windows xp

edit* forgot the psu
 
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Confusednewbie1552

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Nice system =P

What's your power supply? I can only imagine how much juice those cards use. If you have a spare power supply and a lower end video card, try it.
 
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SpokeLee

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I have a 510 w pc power and cooling turbocool delux psu. I only have a 550w aspire psu that im told is garbage and not worth risking.
 
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Confusednewbie1552

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Never heard of PC power. I say buy another PSU. With the stuff you have (X800 XT PE AND 6800 Ultra OC wtf?) another 70-100$ is small change or your so deep in debt it wouldn't even matter.
 
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tweeve2002

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PC power and cooling Power supplys are decent PSUs...

Have you tried updating your chip set drivers?
 
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BujinZero

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PC P&C is fantastic quality. Some say the best of them all. I have two of their units, no trouble.

Drawing too much power, while unlikely, isn't out of the question. If this system were also an SLI setup, I'd think it more probable. Keep it in mind though.

Based on what details you've given, it doesn't sound like you've followed a solid process of elimination, though you're obviously capable. The computer boots, so lets start from there. Use only the basics. Case, PSU, one CPU, vid card, one stick of RAM, one hard drive. Fail safe bios settings (if you haven't done this yet, do it). Install Windows, update, get direct X; install the necessary drivers and light up the troublesome programs. Even at its most 'basic' level, your machine should hose whatever game you throw at it. If you've followed me this far, you can guess that you should keep 'upping the ante' until your system fails. Extra RAM stick, extra CPU, etc. Go from most to least necessary. If you get it all installed and functioning, and the 3d apps work on a minimal Windows install, then you can start looking at software issues. Follow a similar procedure in that case.

And dear lord, your computer is a monster. Even with unlimited money I don't think I'd make one like that!
 
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Blain

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I rate it a 9 out of 10.
It's much better than these hack Jr. PC's being thrown together lately. ;)
 
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SpokeLee

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Sorry to bump such an old post but I figure its better than making a new one.

I finally had the time to dick around with it, and I am having the same problem. This time I check the event viewer to check what the BSOD said, and it gave me an event ID of 1001 and it was a machine_check_exception and the code things were 0x0000009c (0x52bf7948, 0xf604a001, 0x00000813)

Can someone decipher those numbers and help me figure out where the problem area is? I looked for documentation on amd like a programmers manual to see if it can tell me how to read the error code but I have no idea where to start.

However, I did do some googleing and found a post on another board and this person has an identical problem. http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=981867&page=1 maybe this has some info I am missing that can help.

Thanks.
 
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ayman

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idk try to disable fast writes in console.. i'm not sure if this is the same problem that i've seen in the past with some systems. but after disabling that in the bios, the games ran fine ... never got a blue screen tho, it was always crashing of freezing. worth a try


EDIT: if you've used the fail safe option then i think it should be off tho, I THINK, not 100% sure
 
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ayman

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Could be a cooling issue too but i doubt it is.... with my old system i had a visiontek 9600xt and apparently stock cooling wasnt sufficient enough and it kept crashing all the time. When I installed a new zalman heatsink and fan to it, it was stable. I doubt that's your problem though because that card should come with good cooling, no reason why it wouldn't.
 
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SpokeLee

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Anyone else have any input? or can someone help me figure out the code, any programmers? It is different then the one in the microsoft article. I wanna be sure before I drop cash on a new psu.

Thanks.
 
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The Demon

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You are running how many case fans??? Two CPU's and the awesome OC 6800 Ultra. You need power!!! I would go with, minimum, 600w power supply with dual-fans for your setup.

However, it could also be your RAM. A CPU problem will not give you the screen of death experience that you are having.



 
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Matthias99

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imported_Mitchell

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"Never heard of PC power. I say buy another PSU. With the stuff you have (X800 XT PE AND 6800 Ultra OC wtf?) another 70-100$ is small change or your so deep in debt it wouldn't even matter."

Disreguard that guys posts. PC Power and Cooling Powersupplies are some of the best on the market.

Your powersupply is fine.

 
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imported_Mitchell

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I would look into bios and system tweaks. Try turning off AGP Fast Writes in the system BIOS. This is a big cause of problems dealing with 3d Applications, especially DirectX.
 
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MrControversial

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Do those games support dual CPU's? I may have missed it in this thread, but have you tried playing the game with one of the processors disabled?
 
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