help

[outwar6010]

my problem is that it has recently started to crash/restart computer whenever i play games for more than 20 minutes i think i need to flash the bios on the gpu but i have no idea how the msi live update has some sort of warning on the download page saying to only use it with msi mainboards so im stumped plz help my vga bios is 80.04.19.00.0B is this known to have problems etc? thx in advance

[outwar6010]

Score: X2516 (72 FPS)
Submitted by outwar6010 (anonymous mode) on October 28 2012, 9:01 pm

API 3D: OpenGL 4

Graphics score: 4582 points (100 FPS)
PhysX score: 1927 points (96 FPS, GPU PhysX)
Combined score: 1326 points (26 FPS)

Duration: 130000 ms
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Anti-aliasing: X0
Window mode: fullscreen

Primary renderer: GeForce GTX 670/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version: 4.2.0
Graphics drivers: 9.18.13.697 R306.97 branch r30641-13

Number of GPUs: 1
GPU 0 - NVIDIA GeForce series (10de-1189) - GPU clock: 0 MHz - Mem clock: 0 MHz - Max GPU temp: 79 °C - Max GPU load: 99 %


CPU: IntelR CoreTM i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU speed: 3310 MHz
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit build 7601 Service Pack 1

i ran k mark combined test and i noticed in the leaderboard thing that another user had a very similar setup but had gpu temps 20 degrees lower. my pc is well ventilated a corsair 500r so im thinking there might be something wrong with gpu fan maybe?

[outwar6010]

would it be possible to conclude an rma in time for the release of assassins creed 3?

[outwar6010]

i have no idea what the hell is going on with my system i just got a bsod could it be my ram? i recently bought(from scan) 16 gigs of corsair low profile 1600 ram

[outwar6010]

i think i fixed it it turns out my mains into the psu wasnt plugged in completely so gpu wasnt getting enough power etc and the bsods must have happened because of that and corrupted windows files from all the crashes so i did a repair install fixed which fixed almost everything except for darksiders 2 crashing. Which i fixed by going into loads of different forums and found that without vsync forced in the nvidia panel darksiders will crash fixed that and im home free in time for assassins creed which i found out is coming on the 20th of november ARRGGHGHH lol

[spoons33]

lol ...at least you have time to test everything is definitely working ok for release day

[outwar6010]

i spoke too soon i just got a kernel 41 after playing darksiders 2 its hopefully just a bad driver. lol im kinda glad ac 3 is pushed back hopefully it will come out bug free unlike its console counterparts

[Demonwar]

Well Kernel 41 is explained here : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028504

Doesn't sound driver related sounds like your power supply or lack of power to run your components imo.

Judging by the More information section of that KB and the fact you added RAM recently it may be linked.

I would take out a few sticks or maybe even better would be to stick the old ones back in and see how it runs. If you still have the old ones in there I would check the settings are correct(The KB mentions this too) and maybe remove the old sticks if they are differing speeds/spec.

Your spec mentions 3.5 TB on multiple drives? How many? That could be effecting it or at least a cause now you have added more RAM.
But if the system was working fine until this upgrade I would remove the sticks and see how it plays first before looking at RMAs etc.

Also run a memory checker if you want.

[outwar6010]

i have 4 hdds a 256 samsung 830 series ssd i ran and a corsair hx 650w memtest for like half an hour without any errors i started to play other games for like an hour sessions and they played problem free so it could be that darksiders 2 is just a bad port. but i have a feeling that some bios settings need to be changed (i had to make a few changes b4 as asus are a little buggy) and all the asus software that came with the mobo keep crashing and i started to get an error message that somehing in programs needs to be renamed so i uninstalled them and it stopped. this pc was starting to make depressed with all these different problems but it seems to be okay i will run memtest for like a few hours later when i get a chance. thanks again for the suggestions

[outwar6010]

i ran memtest again and it crashed could it be a bios setting? or is it faulty ram?

[outwar6010]

i think i fugured out the latest problem with ram well i googled asus ram kernel 41 and the optimised settings i loaded earlier mesed up the ram settings or timings and a forum post pointed at changing a setting to xmp to detect ad load right settings etc i just ran memtest again for 20 minutes and no crashing so im going to fire up ds 2 again fingers crossed

[outwar6010]

crashed again i got an error irql drivers not less or equal

[outwar6010]

i uninstalled and reinstalled some drivers creative and a marvell(kept unistalled im kinda suspicious of it) and i managed to finish darksiders 2(ending wasnt that great i wanted to resurect the nephilim lol) thx for the help

[meems]

When you want to diagnose a component individually (e.g RAM)... it's a better idea to boot off a Linux live cd and run a memory test from there. This will rule out any windows / drivers problems. Make sure to remove all the RAM and test each stick of memory individually

[outwar6010]

okay all of my above suspected causes etc turned out to be bs what happened was i was getting random crashes without bsods so i did a repair install (which must have crashed during the back or reinstall of my w7 and my stuff so thats the cause of the driver errors) i did a clean install and there hasn't been any bsods but i still get crashes when i game so i think its the psu

[outwar6010]

okay this is very odd i decided to remove my dvd drive (removed the sata cables and power going in its still mounted as im lazy) now i was able to game for about 3 hours straight without problems (hitman absolution is awesome) the drive was in perfect working order could it be something to do with me filling up all my sata mobo slots before and theres some asus bug?