Games are crashing and my Radeon is boiling hot.
Hi, I have joined this forum to ask this specific question.
Recently games are crashing on my PC after about 10 mins of gameplay [namely Need For Speed Most Wanted]. I really have no idea what is causing this, and I have tried everything to solve it [updating drivers, running numorus comuter clean up programs, removing a stick of RAM to test for bad RAM, simply cleaning out the dust...] but nothing seems to be working.
However, today I noticed [when removing the RAM] that my Radeon 9800 is so hot when the computer crashes that I can barely touch the outside of it. I don't know why this is happening, or if this is even normal, but is this why my computer is now crashing?
Also, on a non-relative note, since removing the RAM, whatever window I have open at the time the mouse keeps losing the focus, and games keep minimising - this is also annoying and does anyone know what the hell is wrong with my PC?
Thank you for reading, and I look forward to getting this bugger fixed.
Steve
Recently games are crashing on my PC after about 10 mins of gameplay [namely Need For Speed Most Wanted]. I really have no idea what is causing this, and I have tried everything to solve it [updating drivers, running numorus comuter clean up programs, removing a stick of RAM to test for bad RAM, simply cleaning out the dust...] but nothing seems to be working.
However, today I noticed [when removing the RAM] that my Radeon 9800 is so hot when the computer crashes that I can barely touch the outside of it. I don't know why this is happening, or if this is even normal, but is this why my computer is now crashing?
Also, on a non-relative note, since removing the RAM, whatever window I have open at the time the mouse keeps losing the focus, and games keep minimising - this is also annoying and does anyone know what the hell is wrong with my PC?
Thank you for reading, and I look forward to getting this bugger fixed.
Steve
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You did say bugger. Are you from Australia m8? I know it gets hot there..
I've tired having the side off and pointing a fan into it, it didn't seem to make any difference. The rest of the computer doesn't seem overly hot, and the temperature, from what I remember, seems to be about 40 / 50 degrees, so it's all very confusing.
Also, I get no problems out of games [IE Windows] and my screen does't flicker or degrade any, and the card is barely a year old so I would be very very annoyed if it was breaking down - but I've read other peoples topics that have had this happening and they report the picture going very strange and things like that, mine literally just...crashses.
Power down your PC, pull the card and physically inspect both the fan and the sink.
It really does sound to be a heat related problem.
All roads are pointing to your graphics card from what you have told us..
I already had pulled the card out and did just as you had suggested, and yes it was full of dust and I thought "that'll be it" but it still made no difference. Anyway, in a non-related subject I downloaded a new virus scanner since my one was out of date - it found 70 trojan horses and 2 worms on my computer that I had NO idea were even there. Believe it or not, this solved the problem :| I would never have thought that this could even be a problem.