Dear All,
I am wondering if you can help me resolve some ‘odd’ problems I am having with my new PC build. Setup is as follows:
Chassis: Gigabyte Chassis, 3D Aurora, with 460W PSU (500W peak)
Motherboard: Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe
Chip: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ (2.81GHz)
Memory: 2048MHz (2x 1024MB) OCZ Paired 6400 DDR2-800 PC2-6400 CL 5-5-5-12 Gold XTC Dual Channel Kit
Video Card: Connect 3D (ATI Radeon) X1950 XTX 512MB GDDR4 DVI VIVO PCI-E
Sound Card: Soundblaster Audigy 4
HDD: Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATAII/300 8.5ms 7200RPM 16MB cache
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
Drives: 16x DVDROM (IDE), 52x32x52 CDRW (IDE)
AV: Running ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7
I would say that I am knowledgeable amateur when it comes to PC building, so its not beyond the realms of possibility that there could be an equipment incompatibility, that I have not spotted.
I seem to be having two main issues:
1) Some games have installed but will not run when you start them.
The games are specifically – Star Wars: Empire at War (DVD), Crashday (CD), Star Wars Battlefront II (DVD).
There are two variants of non-starting as follows:
a) SWEaW: Insert DVD, and game menu loads. Click Start Game, and the menu disappers, you then get the hourglass, then standard cursor and nothing.
b) Crashday and SWBFII: Insert CD/DVD, and after a short time game reports an error. ‘Game’.exe encountered a problem, send or don’t send error report!
2) Some games will randomly cause the PC to restart.
This has happened to a number of games that appear to be running fine. Not necessarily at graphic hungry times (can be in game menus). The PC just black screens, or looses signal to the monitor and restarts. I have disabled the XP restart checkbox, and now it will lose signal to the monitor, make some weird noises and then do nothing till I reboot machine.
So far, I have tried the following things:
Update game patches to latest
Latest video card and soundcard drivers
Latest BIOS for mobo, including latest beta BIOS
Latest mobo drivers (I think)
Uninstall/reinstall games
Swapping RAM positions on mobo,
etc, etc.
Any help in solving these issues would be greatly appreciated,
Many thanks,
Glynn
I am wondering if you can help me resolve some ‘odd’ problems I am having with my new PC build. Setup is as follows:
Chassis: Gigabyte Chassis, 3D Aurora, with 460W PSU (500W peak)
Motherboard: Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe
Chip: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ (2.81GHz)
Memory: 2048MHz (2x 1024MB) OCZ Paired 6400 DDR2-800 PC2-6400 CL 5-5-5-12 Gold XTC Dual Channel Kit
Video Card: Connect 3D (ATI Radeon) X1950 XTX 512MB GDDR4 DVI VIVO PCI-E
Sound Card: Soundblaster Audigy 4
HDD: Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATAII/300 8.5ms 7200RPM 16MB cache
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
Drives: 16x DVDROM (IDE), 52x32x52 CDRW (IDE)
AV: Running ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7
I would say that I am knowledgeable amateur when it comes to PC building, so its not beyond the realms of possibility that there could be an equipment incompatibility, that I have not spotted.
I seem to be having two main issues:
1) Some games have installed but will not run when you start them.
The games are specifically – Star Wars: Empire at War (DVD), Crashday (CD), Star Wars Battlefront II (DVD).
There are two variants of non-starting as follows:
a) SWEaW: Insert DVD, and game menu loads. Click Start Game, and the menu disappers, you then get the hourglass, then standard cursor and nothing.
b) Crashday and SWBFII: Insert CD/DVD, and after a short time game reports an error. ‘Game’.exe encountered a problem, send or don’t send error report!
2) Some games will randomly cause the PC to restart.
This has happened to a number of games that appear to be running fine. Not necessarily at graphic hungry times (can be in game menus). The PC just black screens, or looses signal to the monitor and restarts. I have disabled the XP restart checkbox, and now it will lose signal to the monitor, make some weird noises and then do nothing till I reboot machine.
So far, I have tried the following things:
Update game patches to latest
Latest video card and soundcard drivers
Latest BIOS for mobo, including latest beta BIOS
Latest mobo drivers (I think)
Uninstall/reinstall games
Swapping RAM positions on mobo,
etc, etc.
Any help in solving these issues would be greatly appreciated,
Many thanks,
Glynn