Problem with lockups.

-Ben-Ben
edited December 2004 in Hardware
Hi guys and gals,

I currently have a problem with my machine(specs to follow) I can run windows fine and all but when I start up a game that's another story. The game can be played for about 5-10 minutes before it will lock up and show minor artifacts, I can close the program after a while, but the monitor will keep turning on and off in regular 20 second intervals(while locking the PC up) untill I restart the machine.

Tempratures seem normal on the graphics card (70C) and the processor is running at 40C

Virus scans turn up blank.

AMD 64 3000
XP SP2 Fresh Install.
Geil 1024 value ram.
Samsung 80GB IDE HD
Leadtek geforce 6800GT

Comments

  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Card could be dieing. If you have a spare one, switch it out.
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited December 2004
    Only problem is the cards I do have spare won't be able to run the likes on HL2 :|
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited December 2004
    Do you have the latest drivers ?
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    What I mean about the spare is to check if you get the problem with other cards. If you do, you know it's not the card and you can continue on checking other things.
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited December 2004
    Yup latest drivers.

    What I mean Black Hawk, is that the problem only occurs in games, and the graphics cards I do have can't run any games. Is there another way to stress a card?
  • madmatmadmat
    edited December 2004
    What's your spare card?
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited December 2004
    ATI rage something or other.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited December 2004
    You have Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament on your machine? Try an older game like one of those that will run on that card and see what happens.

    Even if it runs like a slide show the point isn't playing a game as much as seeing what the card will do although if that card's (the spare) not 4x agp I wouldn't recomend popping it into your mobo as it might injure something or just not boot as newer mobo's won't support below 4x AGP cards.
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited December 2004
    I found the problem.

    hellbunny.jpg

    The filter on the GPU fan had become blocked up.
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