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PC Gaming technical help

ZenitramZenitram Registered User regular
edited December 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
So my computer has always had this issue. Basically, if I start it cold it works for about 10 minutes, but then everything slows to a crawl (sound, mouse, etc.) and eventually freezes. Nothing works, and when I try to press a key, the PC speaker gives me an awful buzzing sound. Most of the time, my sound card's software will pop up and say that a jack has been unplugged, though it obviously hasn't.

If I do a hard reboot then the computer is fine and can be left on for days no problem. EXCEPT if I play a graphic intensive game. Orange Box and STALKER did it, and now Eve is doing it with their DX9 update. I updated my sound drivers (thinking that may have been it) but it didn't help at all.

Anyone have any ideas? I have no idea if it's my soundcard, my GPU, my power supply, my processor, etc. If you need hardware specifics just yell.

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  • anonywhoanonywho Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Can your GPU handle the game?

    Did you try disabling your sound card and try to run the game?

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  • ZenitramZenitram Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    anonywho wrote: »
    Can your GPU handle the game?

    Did you try disabling your sound card and try to run the game?

    GPU and specs are fine (7800 GT, Athlon 64 something or other, and plenty o' RAM). Disabling sound is a good idea though, I'm a newbie when it comes to troubleshooting :)

    Will keep you posted

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  • ScrubletScrublet Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Whenever I get strange errors like this, it almost always winds up being a PSU or RAM issue. Unfortunately, my PSU issues usually led to reboots so my guess is maybe RAM. Try using a buddy's RAM and see if it goes away. Another thing; if your temperature is skyrocketing for some reason this could also happen. So get temp readings on everything and make sure you're fine in that department.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    How hot is your CPU running, on average (you can usually find this out by rebooting, getting into your BIOS, and looking for a Hardware monitoring/Health screen)?

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  • brandotheninjamasterbrandotheninjamaster Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    make sure your fan on your video card and processor are spinning.

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  • RavengerRavenger Trolololo Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Hey bud, i remember seeing an adapter you can hook up into your computer that will force your fans to run for 10 minutes after your computer shuts off. This could help, seeing as the computer is the hottest AFTER you turn it off (no fans running/water cooling, heat is trapped inside the box)

    Hmm...
    there we are
    http://www.pctoys.com/840556025498.html

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