sigh... very... very... unhappy

[grayg1]

I already tried using another HD as the main HD on it's own. Tried turing off indexing too.

[this_is_gav]

I have a surge protector and I have already ran a computer with supposed more power draw on the same socket perfectly fine.

Just so you know, a surge protector will only help on 'positive' surges if you like. Any lack of current and you're in the same boat.

[Philipp]

Grayg1,

I can only apologise for the problems that you have encountered so far, I believe that customer services are looking into the problems with dispatching your goods in the condition they were.

In regards to the fault that you still have I would recommend that you try as another member has stated disabling the LAN port as I believe when the system was tested prior to dispatch a network cable would not have been connected and there was no sign of any freezing as per the Test Prior report below;

Passed FEAR. Far-Cry. Oblivion and 3DMark2006 - I can see no pausing on the Gfx's.

If you can try the above and let me know I can then raise a returns number for the PSU and also any other parts that may need to come back (or the full system if you wish) what ever does come back I will personally test the parts myself.

Best Regards

[grayg1]

I would like perhaps a little advice about what exactly I am supposed to do now? Right now because of me having to wiggle the PSU wire to first get the PC working you want me to send the PSU back for testing. But I have since discovered that the orginal reason the components were RMA'd which was said to be fixed isn't fixed.

edit: ahh nvm I will take a look at it now, although I think I have already tried disabling the LAN port in the past because I went through all the IRQ's to see what was sharing what IRQ and found out the LAN port was sharing the graphics cards IRQ.

Like I orginally reccomended though, I would reccomend C&C 3 be used as it doesn't just freeze for a few seconds it completely freezes i.e. lock up and it doesn't recover.

[grayg1]

Oh what I forgot to say was that I sometimes get what looks like artifacting in C&C 3 where it looks like part of the screan just randomlly tears across the screen. I had this before I sent out the parts for testing but this is the only game it happens with. I tried C&C 3 on another computer with the same exact drivers and this tearing does not happen.

Obviously I have had a 7800GT swapped with another 7800GT so it would seem the 7800GT does not cause this artifacting.

[Philipp]

I would put that down to the GFX card being faulty,

Have you tried another PSU on the system and also disabling the LAN port?

Also if you try another game will the same thing happen?

Regards

[grayg1]

Well you can't tell me the graphics card is faulty when you have just replaced a supposed faulty 7800GT with a different new one. Bit of a coincidence that the exact same thing happens.

I tried using another PSU on the system yes.

I just disabled everything under the network adapter section of device manager, this is what you wanted me to do right? Whilst everything in there was disabled I went and played FEAR. After about 15 minutes I got the 1-2 second freeze and then a couple of minutes later I got what normally only happens in C&C3 happen to me. Sometimes C&C 3 won't just lock up completely sometimes after about 10-20 seconds of C&C 3 being frozen it goes to the desktop and the desktop goes to lowest resolution and lowest colour setting and gives me an error about the display driver stopped responding. This happend in FEAR, like I said I have never had this happen in anyother game apart from C&C3 until now.

How do I attach an image? I'm pretty sure there's a way on here EDIT: the upload from my HD way EDIT2: ahh nvm imageshack seems to do the job

[Mark@SCAN]

Hi

Rather than disabling the network adaptor in Windows i would suggest you just disable the onboard network adaptor in the BIOS (just for the purpose of testing)

Regards

[grayg1]

Ok I will try that now but, don't you think it would be a bit strange for 2 different motherboards to cause game freezes because of their LAN chips? Especially considering I can't find anyone with a problem similar to mine.

[NyquistLimit]

Based on that screenshot it definitely looks like a gfx card issue. Either the gfx card is faulty or the drivers are buggy or the operating system is corrupted and needs a reinstall.

Is anything overclocked? Are the voltages steady?

[grayg1]

Eveyrthing is stock and like I said Scan said the old 7800GT is faulty and they replaced it with a brand new one which they say isn't faulty. Now I know the 7800GT IS a different card from my old one because it is a little shorter, black in colour rather than blue and it takes a molex connector rather than the 6pin PCI-E, so there is no doubting this is the different card.

I have installed the OS with the same result and like I said Scan left Windows on the PC from their testing, they didn't wipe it. So this effectively the same state Scan had the computer?

[grayg1]

Ok well didn't take long I have both onboard H / W 1394 and onboard H / W LAN disabled in the BIOS. I played C&C 3 for about 10-20 seconds and the game did the freeze and then crashed to desktop and gave me this:



Would it be possible for a hardware fault in the CPU to cause the graphics card to do things wrong?

[NyquistLimit]

That dialog says its an internal driver error. Although that could still indicate a hardware problem if the hardware isnt doing what the driver expects. Which driver are u currently using?

[grayg1]

93.71

I have already tried different drivers in the past though.

[NyquistLimit]

Try these. They seem to be the best for Windows Xp right now.

Also it might not hurt to try reinstalling DirectX 9.0c

[grayg1]

I'll give it a try doubt it will fix anything though. Have already tried reinstalling directX lots of times in the past and even tried reinstalling service pack 2.

Don't see how what was supposedly working for Scan can arrive to me and suddenly directX is broke?