PC freezes

KKND · November 08, 2007, 10:31:00 AM

When im playing games my pc freezes after 5 min.:ranting2:

It makes no differenst what game i play..:g:

I have tryed new Video drivers but nothing has changed.

I have this for 5 days ore so...

I did not installed anything new only few games.....

but even yesterday it freezes when i was playing TF2...

Any thoughts.

Edit: Cleaned but still freezing.....

Maybe del dx 9 c and Video drivers and install then again..?

Blunt · November 08, 2007, 10:36:02 AM

dust/heat in gfx card was the problem when it happened to me

Anonymous · November 08, 2007, 10:41:40 AM

Sounds like something overheating. may be time to get the dust out of the system.

KKND · November 08, 2007, 10:54:10 AM

Will remove the dust..and let you know...

DuVeL · November 08, 2007, 11:09:15 AM

What the others said.

BTW;
On our workcomps we have Speedfan installed to see what is heating up.
The program is freeware and has some nice features. Might be interesting to use for you aswell.

KKND · November 08, 2007, 11:24:23 AM

Quote from: DuVeL;212571What the others said.

BTW;
On our workcomps we have Speedfan installed to see what is heating up.
The program is freeware and has some nice features. Might be interesting to use for you aswell.

Installed and thnx Duv...

DuVeL · November 08, 2007, 11:26:38 AM

Quote from: KKND;212572Installed and thnx Duv...

NP, I used on a computer that kept flying off alot and decided I wanted to monitor the heat within the case. You can also adjust your fansettings and so if anything needs extra cooling.

Dr Sadako · November 08, 2007, 12:15:18 PM

What the other guys already said. Dust both the fan for the CPU and the GPU. Had a similar problem with dust clogging the CPU fan.

delanvital · November 08, 2007, 12:33:29 PM

Quote from: Dr Sadako;212583What the other guys already said. Dust both the fan for the CPU and the GPU. Had a similar problem with dust clogging the CPU fan.

:withstupid:

KKND · November 08, 2007, 01:14:26 PM

Done all that...but still having same prob..

Thing i noticed is that the gfx card gets very hot when the pc is freezing, but not that hot too quit...

When playing games on my PC, they suddenly freeze (usually after a few minutes), and a high pitched squealing and beeping can be heard, i cant seem to work out this one

Anonymous · November 08, 2007, 01:49:45 PM

Do you have a 7900GTX graphics card by any chance?

delanvital · November 08, 2007, 01:53:12 PM

Quote from: KKND;212596Done all that...but still having same prob..

Thing i noticed is that the gfx card gets very hot when the pc is freezing, but not that hot too quit...

When playing games on my PC, they suddenly freeze (usually after a few minutes), and a high pitched squealing and beeping can be heard, i cant seem to work out this one

I think BB is having same thought as me. The squealing means your card is not getting enough power. It is a built-in acoustic warning in the cards. Mine is a 7800GS bought from BB and mine did this as well until I got a new PSU. Your powersupply does fade in performance with age. Do you have a better one to swap with, to check?

KKND · November 08, 2007, 01:57:14 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;212603Do you have a 7900GTX graphics card by any chance?

I got 8800 GTS 320 mb version.

Anonymous · November 08, 2007, 02:06:25 PM

Quote from: KKND;212608I got 8800 GTS 320 mb version.

Ah, ok. I know there was a problem with 7900GT/GTX cards.

KKND · November 08, 2007, 02:16:58 PM

I have now installed newest drivers and again Directx..will see how it works now....:g:

Still crap...

Gonna remove 2 gig off memory that i bought few weeks ago maybe that helps dunno...

EDIT: That seems too be the trick...
Still working....weird **** ...xp cant handle 4 gig ..pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff