Silentwind's PC problems

[SnaFuBAR]

Well, silentwind's computer keeps crashing... here's the details.

His nvidia 7600gt keeps locking up and restarting his pc, and now whenever he opens a browser, his computer restarts after 5-10 minutes. His comp is running at 27-28 degrees Celsius, all the fans are running, and a new fan was installed to cool the mobo.

agp slot gfx, 1.5ghz processor, 768mb ram, directx 9.0c.

Help appreciated.

[Bastinka]

Fixed the browser restart problem, but the geforce 7600 gt keeps crashing any game I get into. :(

[Limited]

Sup.

So what happens when you run the game, does it just reboot? Blue screen? Freeze? Any error messages popup?

[Bastinka]

Well what I see with my eyes on the monitor is the regular displayed picture with tiled sorta rainbow random color 3x3 pixel cubes, very small but large enough to see sorta spaced maybe 10 pixels away from each other in a perfect grid, computer freezes. Sometimes it just reboots out of random when I'm playing the game. SP3 Windows XP Professional btw.

I messed with the quality settings, also Limited I haven't talked to you in a while. Get on AIM or gimme your MSN.

[InnerGoat]

Video memory may be bad. Did you change anything before the problem started?

[Amit]

Video memory may be bad. Did you change anything before the problem started?

He was fooling around with the HD 3850.

[beele]

Like innergoat said, could be the video memory.

But if like Amit said you were fooling around with the HD 3850, it could be a driver conflict. Uninstall all graphics drivers (Nvidia and ATI). Then reboot into safe mode and use drivercleanerPro to clean all files en registry entries that where left behind. When that's done, boot into windows again and install your nvidia driver again.

[Bastinka]

I fooled around with the Radeon HD 3650* also I uninstalled the driver (HD 3600) and went into safe mode, ran the Driver Cleaner thing, Shut down, took out the power cable, put in new gfx card and took out the old 3650, Installed, Saw the problem Updated drivers, still porblem, uninstalled, reinstalled and now I still have the problem.

[Bastinka]

Video memory may be bad. Did you change anything before the problem started?
Double post, but no I didn't change anything other than the graphics cards.

All I wanna do is play CS: Source :gonk:

I'm guessing I need another graphics card, if so please link me one my PC can handle and can play CS: Source or some other game smoothly, this one cost 94.95 Euro so I can trade it in for something around the same price. Also this PC has an AGP Slot...

[InnerGoat]

You had this problem with the 3650 too?

[Bastinka]

No, the HD 3650 (Drivers were called HD 3600 Series) displayed things with a lot of problems but never crashed.

[Amit]

I fooled around with the Radeon HD 3650*

Aw fuck me, why the hell do I keep thinking it's a fuckin HD 3850?


You had this problem with the 3650 too?

Naa...I keep forgetting it's a HD 3650 in the first place.

Feel free to +Rep me, that's a PLUS REP :)

[InnerGoat]

No, the HD 3650 (Drivers were called HD 3600 Series) displayed things with a lot of problems but never crashed.Where did that card go? Also, can you try the 7600 in another box?