Anybody good with pc's??

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:36 am

my pc keeps crashing when i do something intense like playing halflife2
my cpu is not overclocked,but its seems to be messed up voltage wise. how can i sort this problem out??please and thanks

unempty · Post by **unempty** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:50 am

Might be that it overheats when loading the CPU too much.

Also, it could be faulty memory, but that should show up running other apps too.

If you can't make it happen by say, running a zillion VSTs, maybe it's a graphics card memory problem / overheating? Or just a driver bug.

Just a few things that might be the issue. Sorry I can't help ya more right away. Sorry about the trouble, that stuff sucks :/

pss · Post by **pss** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:52 am

sounds like its overheating and your cpu2 is way too hot
when temperatures go above 60C there might be random crashes & other system instability

try cleaning the insides of your computer from dust (especially the cpu cooler), and if that doesn't help you have to improve the cooling somehow

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:58 am

i may have to upgrade my heatsink or something.

josip · Post by **josip** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:07 am

71 is way too hot man. Get a better cooler, or you'll end up with a "melted" processor

.

dashman · Post by **dashman** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:41 pm

plus dont have internet on the user profiles that slows music programs etc, used too make my logic pro crash etc all the time, then put the internet stuff on a other user id, now runs smoothly

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:18 pm

dashman wrote:plus dont have internet on the user profiles that slows music programs etc, used too make my logic pro crash etc all the time, then put the internet stuff on a other user id, now runs smoothly

k

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:19 pm

josip wrote:71 is way too hot man. Get a better cooler, or you'll end up with a "melted" processor .

arggh lol

relaks · Post by **relaks** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:21 pm

GET A MACINTOSH.

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:32 pm

relaks wrote:GET A MACINTOSH.

u cant play games on those

relaks · Post by **relaks** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:43 pm

LIFE WILL GO ON.

dj slums · Post by **dj slums** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:40 pm

cpu temp is not way too hot, thats about average. and if it was overheating it would shut down.

if its only crashing when playing games, then lower the graphical settings within said game, update graphics driver, or look into getting a new card. if its crashing when doing anything intensive, and when you say crashing, if you mean the whole sys freezes, even the mouse, then you may be looking at blown caps on the motherboard. if it fails to load some times, it could be ram or hdd.

u can download a ram and hdd checker alot of places on the net if you want to rule these things out.

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:32 pm

feasible_weasel wrote:
relaks wrote:GET A MACINTOSH.
u cant play games on those

Not true... You can get a Mac, and do the dual boot thing where you have Windows for games and OSX for production. Just make sure you get an Intel Mac if thats what you want to do with it.

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:21 am

dj slums wrote:cpu temp is not way too hot, thats about average. and if it was overheating it would shut down.

if its only crashing when playing games, then lower the graphical settings within said game, update graphics driver, or look into getting a new card. if its crashing when doing anything intensive, and when you say crashing, if you mean the whole sys freezes, even the mouse, then you may be looking at blown caps on the motherboard. if it fails to load some times, it could be ram or hdd.

u can download a ram and hdd checker alot of places on the net if you want to rule these things out.

its bizzare now
i cant even install windows, the pc turns itself off,just before u get the part when u add the keyboard type,region ur in etc.
luckily i have the motherboard disk,that installs the whole pc again.
i will have to check things out.
i have a 80 gig harddisk,so i need to upgrade that anyways.
and im gonna buy some ram (small stick),and a motherboard.
should cost me £100 in all

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:21 am

kidlogic wrote:
feasible_weasel wrote:
relaks wrote:GET A MACINTOSH.
u cant play games on those
Not true... You can get a Mac, and do the dual boot thing where you have Windows for games and OSX for production. Just make sure you get an Intel Mac if thats what you want to do with it.

thanks

two oh one · Post by **two oh one** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:27 am

kidlogic wrote:Not true... You can get a Mac, and do the dual boot thing where you have Windows for games, viruses and malware and OSX for production. Just make sure you get an Intel Mac if thats what you want to do with it.

Fixed that for you...

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:27 am

have a 80 gig harddisk,so i need to upgrade that anyways.
and im gonna buy some ram (small stick),and a motherboard.
should cost me £100 in all

you're probably getting this stuff anyway, but it doesn't sound like that would fix anything for you - it's almost definitely a heat issue with cpu2. turn the pc on with the case open to make sure the fan above your heatsink is actually spinning

what do you mean by 'motherboard disk' by the way?

whatever you do don't listen to things like

GET A MACINTOSH.

especially considering things like http://secunia.com/product/96/

misk · Post by **misk** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:01 am

macs for the win! best evar.

creepz · Post by **creepz** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:43 am

my hl2 or css crashes to desktop if i havent got ram timmings set up properly when there overclocked not had a blue screen for longtime

what cpu have u got?
if its 939 dfi lanparty make exellent boards
i got mine for £35 (its a bargain)

and as someone said keeping fans etc clean and work really helps .

teknics · Post by **teknics** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:08 am

definatly dont go with the mac suggestion, u'll end up spending ur next couple months wages on applications.

defo check the cpu fan, my bro had the same problem when playin games and he thought it was the graphics card over heating.

his solution was open the side and shuve a room fan facing the computer.

luckely i had a look and it turned out his CPU fan had died and hadnt been running for the last couple weeks. changed the fan, now it runs perfectly.

in ur case ur second cpu is running way to hot. average should be around 40-50 C depending on wat ur doing and how gd ur heatsink and fan is. latest cpu's run even less then that.

give us a run down of ur machine specs.

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