system crashes to desktop

psychnurse

System: gigabyte GA-K8NNXP
amd64 3200
1g geil 3200 ddr400
audigy 2 zs
fx5200 (waiting for delivery of 6800ultra)
power supply Hyena 500W ATX Power Supply (I dont know the amps but here is the site to the power supplys specs:
http://www.vivid-computers.co.nz/products/...productid=11890

Found the specs sheet:
http://www.apextechusa.com/datasheet/ATX500W.pdf

My games Battlefield 1942 and Doom 3 crash to desktop or freeze and I have to reboot. I get about 5 -10 mins before the game gives up.
It is not the drivers, soundcard or video card as I have tried different video cards, run the game without the soundcard and used the latest drivers.

I belive a power supply must run have at least 18amps to power an amd 64

Suggestions anyone. .
Cheers
malcolm

TheBaron

these kinds of problems are generally one of 2 things

1) a temp problem - go ahead and install the gigabyte supplied temperature and voltage monitoring tool, or google for motherboard monitor. the stock HSF may not be doing its job

2) a memory problem - your memory may be bad. use memtest86+

Squill

Check the fan on your video card, I had a friend who was lanning at my house have the same problem with UT2k4. He found out that his video card fan died on him. It migth not be the problem but it could be. So just make sure that baby is spinning.

psychnurse

Squill wrote:

Check the fan on your video card, I had a friend who was lanning at my house have the same problem with UT2k4. He found out that his video card fan died on him. It migth not be the problem but it could be. So just make sure that baby is spinning.

cheers but no fan on the 5200.
I wi :Rocker: sh it was gonna be that easy.

Squill

psychnurse wrote:

cheers but no fan on the 5200.
I wi :Rocker: sh it was gonna be that easy.

Well poop on your 5200

primesuspect

did you test the memory?

www.memtest.org

psychnurse

primesuspect wrote:

did you test the memory?

www.memtest.org

Yep, it took 5 hours all ok.
What I just discovered was the advanced chipset functions and I turned off the fastwrite. It seems more stable, I got 10 mins of game play....then no crash but a screen freeze.

Dexter

Is your Direct X up to date...?

Searching through EA's support site, most of the crash problems are Direct X related.

http://eatech.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/eatech.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?&p_faqid=12469

Also, check this one:

http://eatech.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/eatech.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=eiQ1koih&p_lva=&p_faqid=10733&p_created=1044396966&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTg5JnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9MyZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMT00NjcmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDI9fmFueX4mcF9jYXRfbHZsMT1_YW55fiZwX2NhdF9sdmwyPX5hbnl_JnBfc2NmX2ZhcXMqYyRwbGF0Zm9ybT0xODImcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9wYWdlPTM*&p_li=

Dexter...

psychnurse

Dexter wrote:

Is your Direct X up to date...?

Searching through EA's support site, most of the crash problems are Direct X related.

http://eatech.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/eatech.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?&p_faqid=12469

Also, check this one:

http://eatech.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/eatech.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=eiQ1koih&p_lva=&p_faqid=10733&p_created=1044396966&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTg5JnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9MyZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMT00NjcmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDI9fmFueX4mcF9jYXRfbHZsMT1_YW55fiZwX2NhdF9sdmwyPX5hbnl_JnBfc2NmX2ZhcXMqYyRwbGF0Zm9ybT0xODImcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9wYWdlPTM*&p_li=

Dexter...

Thanks for the reply, found the cause. I disabled Fastwrite in bios and then I underclocked the ram. Need to get the timings right in order for the 400ddr to work properly..