System Freezes

Ok here is my problem, when I try to play a game the game will stop responding meaning that I have to restart my computer, this has happend in all the games I have played so far which are Age of Empires III, Battlefield 2 and LOTR - War of the ring. It does not give any errors it just stops responding and CTRL + ALT + DEL does not work, the only thing that works is to restart the computer. So how can I resolve this problem?

Here is my spec:

Mainboard: ASRock K7NF2-RAID
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3200+
Memory: 1,0GB DDR SDRAM (2 512mb bricks)
Graphic Card: Sapphire Radeon 9550 256mb
HDD: 40GB Western Digital S-ATA
OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2 OEM Licence.

Need help please!

Oh by the way this happends also if I play a Video or try to do a benchmark with 3d Mark 2001.

No help? Anyone?!

Ok I am about to become crazy, I can't figure out my problem so any help would be great, btw how do I create a minidump file?

try lowering the graphics settings. The game may be taxing your system.
Close all other programs before playing.

Also your system may be overheating as well.

Well its not being overheated thats for sure as SpeedFan shows about 31C on Temp 1, 38C on Temp 2, 31C on Temp 3 and 36C on HD0. When it comes to the graphic settings I have lowered them but it still freezes. I have also installed all the latest drivers for my graphic card and my chipset drivers. I also runned this software called GameXP to optimize my computer for gaming but its still the same problem.

Bloody hell, I just tried playing a game and it still freezes (needed to do a reboot), I have checked the Event Logs as well but nothing there that may indicate a problem. Can anyone tell me how I can do a minidump?

System Properties->Advanced->Startup and Recovary settings->
-Check "write an event to system log"
-Uncheck "automatically restart"
-Under "write debugging information" choose "small memory dump."

this problem could be because of a faulty video card since anything graphics intensive crashes it, if it is still in warrenty, then i recommend RMA-ing it.

Could also be bad drivers. Try updating drivers.

Ok the system has made a minidump file, but how do I get that file in txt format? As it is currently a dmp file. sw123: That could be the problem, however since I have installed different types of drivers I am starting to doubt it. And I currently have the latest drivers installed.

zip at least 5 or 6 dumps and post them here. you have to use windbg to read them afaik.

Well how can I zip like 5 or 6 dumps when there is only one dump that has been created?

you cant.
post the dump you have atm, and later if you get any bsods, then post any new ones.

Ok I have attached the minidump file I got.

the dump shows a crash at "NVENETFD.sys" with a bugcheck of D1:

i couldnt find much info about this file on google, but i think its related to Nvidia mobo devices. if you have nvidia stuff on your mobo, then update them to the latest drivers.

The file seems to be related to my onboard network adapter, should I try to disable it to see if that is what causes my gaming problems? Or should I just try to find a new driver for it?.

Well I tried simply disable it but the games still freezes, it does not give me any BSOD error, it just simple stops responding and I have to restart my computer. Anyhows I am going to try to test my memory bricks for failures & also install a new PSU as I think my PSU is just crap.

i think these: http://www.asrock.com/support/download.asp?Model=K7NF2-RAID are the latest drivers and bios releases for your mobo.

yeah that is the drivers I got installed.

same kind of problem

Tidus and all,

I am experiencing the same kind of problem with the same card (different manufacturer, but ATI Radeon 9550 256 MB).

When I am playing a game - any game, including ones that worked with my previous video card (Nvidia GeForce MX4000 128MB) - my monitor shuts off within a few minutes and will not turn back on, but the computer stays on (unresponsive - the power is on but will not respond to any commands) until I manually shut it down - ctrl-alt-del does nothing.

Tidus - I don't think that I will be much help in resolving your problem, but I can tell you what specs I have, and what I have done that has not helped. Perhaps working together and with the assistance of this community we can resolve both our problems.

My System:
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.10 GHz
512 MB RAM
Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-LA
Hard drive: Samsung SP0802N 80 gig
OS: Windows XP Home Edition 2002 w/ Service Pack 2
PSU: Antec TruePower 2.0 480W

I have:
Updated BIOS
Updated graphics driver
Tried every graphics/resolution setting/configuration I could think of
Changed my primary graphics driver to AGP/onboard in BIOS
don't remember what else

Anyway - any ideas, anyone?