What could cause games to 'freeze' completely?

[Ferral]

For what I've been playing tonight I don't need the average system I have!!!

Been playing the old Speccy games on an emulator. Playing each game for about 10 mins, X-Out and Bruce Lee got a bit more time though. Don't think they will cause my pc to overheat!!!

[collettnj]

Right, putting the frequency to 1000MHz got me a BSOD and the typical game crashes. I then tried reducing it to 600MHz, and didn't get a BSOD but the game still crashed.

Over 9 hours in memtest86 last night (4 passes) and there are NO reported errors..

[Ferral]

What is the frequency of your ram? You have to set it in accordance with manufacturers spec. Set it to high and you will get BSOD. Are you sure the frequency is set separated from the CPU.

Is your CPU frequency set correctly also?

[collettnj]

http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...pc_4gb_edition

^^ That's my RAM.

The frequency shown there is 1000MHz. The BIOS had it set to 800MHz, which I then increased to 1000 to fit what OCZ say is correct.

The FSB is set to 1066MHz, which is correct for the E6600 as far as i know..

[Ferral]

All I can suggest is set it to the 1000, but also maually put in the cas etc that it is showing on the site you've just given link to. At least that way you know it is set completely right. I am guessing you have it set to Auto detect at the min.

On the Asus boards it can be named slightly different depending on the bios itself. However it is easy enough to recognise the right ones.

[collettnj]

I'd already set the timings...ive returned the frequency to 1000 so ill see how it runs with that.

Just to check that i'm not doing everything wrong:








Is that ok?

Just an unrelated question - as I was digging through my BIOS, I noticed that the CPU Multiplier was set at 9 - does that sound right? I've no idea what it does..its just it seemed a strange number


Also, that stuff under the 'Advanced Memory Settings'...should I change that to anything?

[Ferral]

Keep mem settings as they are, looks ok to me.

Example of the Front Side Bus

You look at the processor frequency say 200 Mhz

Your CPU clock has a total speed of 2 Ghz

Now to get the 2 Ghz you would need a multiplier of 10

200 x 10 = 2000

Thats how it works

So you need to look at your cpu specs. Find the speed of it, then look at its Front Side Bus and multiply the front side bus to get its total speed.

[collettnj]

So I assume a value of 9 is correct?

Setting everything like in the photos still doesn't fix the freezing

This time I got some really bad graphics corruption before the game crashed...that happened last time I set it to 1000MHz.

[Blitzen]

Do yu have a link to your PSU model?
TT's arent great.

[Agent]

But they are not particularly bad either. Certainly not the recent models too.

[collettnj]

Do yu have a link to your PSU model?

https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Comp...roductId=27046

That's the one!

[collettnj]

I've now updated the BIOS to the most recent version (1404 - April this year).

STILL having the problem!

I've tried running with only 1 stick of RAM in the PC, and it 'seems' to hold out for longer..

Any suggestions?

[Blitzen]

But they are not particularly bad either. Certainly not the recent models too.

The more recent ones are better i agree.......but still not amazing.
I have just looked at the spec of that (with link provided) and £60 is pretty cheap for a 600W Modualr PSU.
What kind of drop are you getting under load?

I honestly think that all the components aren't getting enough power and this is causing the lock ups. Particularly seeing as how its only during intense 3D applications.

How are the temperatures of that card btw? That another possibility.

I honestly cant see it being a memory issue tbh.

[Paranoid2000]

I had a similar problem - the cause was overclocking the GPU. Even if your GPU is factory overclocked, try setting it back to "standard" frequencies (core 650MHz, memory 970MHz for an 8800GTS) to see if that makes a difference.

[collettnj]

Is that best done through the nvidia settings on their control panel?

EDIT: Through a thread that I posted in the OCZ support forums, I've now got an RMA going on the RAM, so I'll be sending it off tomorrow for replacement. I still can't help but wonder whether the motherboard's partly at fault though...

[Paranoid2000]

Is that best done through the nvidia settings on their control panel?

There shouldn't be any settings for frequency adjustment on Nvidia's control panel unless you installed Ntune (which is best avoided where possible, since just breathing on it can cause crashes).

Try RivaTuner instead for GPU frequency adjustments.