Okay, I've just lived with this problem for the last month and today I want to get rid of it. When I'm playing newer games like Crysis,COD4 and the witcher after a while either the game gets stuck and then the monitor turns itself off. If I'm lucky I'm able to alt tab and go back into the game and it will be okay. But the most frequent thing is the game just freezes and alt-tabbing/ctrl+alt+del etc doesnt work resulting in hard reboot. Today I've ruled out the memory,overheating,drivers,spyware/viruses everything you can think of yet It keeps on happening. Really need help with this! thanks!
Think I narrowed it down to the graphics card overheating? Its one of the HIS Pro Turbo pre-overclocked ones. Was playing COD4 there and the temp of the graphics card was around 58-60 c. Doesnt sound good does it? Do I need to clean out the graphics card somehow to get dust and stuff out?
I tell you what, try this: Open your case and play the games and see if the same happens. Also check your mobo temp with something like everest and make sure its not getting too high. Too high would be over 60 degrees.
try underclocking the memory 50mhz or so, those gfx card's had a lot of problems with the overclock and temperature. http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=208908
I like the case open idea too. If you have one handy, point a house fan into the side of the open case and see if your problem goes away.
anything under 75 C is pretty much fine for graphics cards. Almost all the new cards get this hot with the stock coolers. Could just be a conflict with the drivers or a corrupted file or something like that.
flash mobo bios or reset to fail safe, or hit the cmos reset. should be in a list of the first things to try.
Well, Cockneysean could right about the PSU. The x1950 is a very powerful GPU. It's very comparable with the HD 38XX series. One thing between the 38XX series and the X1950s is that the x1950 eats up a lot of power and heats up pretty quick. If your setup consist of running crossfire, it may very well be your lack of power coming from the PSU or just a temperature thing. Yet, it doesn't have to be your graphics card. It could be the amount of power it takes to dissipate a certain amount of heat. I wouldn't know. I'm sorry if this caused any confusion. It sound like I may not know what I'm talking about so please correct me if I'm wrong. Good Luck with everything. I know how it feels to be frustrated with something like this. Hope it goes well.
60 is NOT high for modern dual core cpu's. A intel Core 2 Duo xxx will sit at roughly that with the stock intel HSF.
I had to do this before I upgraded to my current case. The graphics card was making the inside of the case too much, and from what I could see from the temperature logging I was doing, it was the mobo temp that was getting way too high. I used a house fan...:infinity:
if your core 2 duo is idle at 60c i'd be quite worried mate, 60c is very high for a CPU. Core 2 duos shouldnt be making much over 40c
I have this same problem going on right now, but it's only present in battlefield engine games. (battlefield 2 / 2142) I've done almost everything to see whats wrong with no luck really, primes, memtests, stock clocks, drivers etc... I got it running for 3 hours yesterday and then it crashed again, --> game starts jagging --> sound loops --> screen goes black and system freezes totally ( capslock or others wont work )
If your overclocking the memory, bring back to stock or lower. Also the sound looping freeze is very common with X-fi cards and the creative forums are full of this issue.