Games crash on new system

[roman1]

I could use some help here,I just put together a new system and every 3d-game i try to play keeps crashing to desktop,No error or anything??...I have a MS-6743 v1.X M-ATX mobo with a P4 3.0 ghz chip,i have a gig of kingston ddr400 ram and an ATI 9800 pro card(128).....I have all updated drivers and bios and even tried old vga drivers,But still every game crashes some longer than others but still crash....My case has 5 fans all placed for proper cooling and my idle temp is 40C and when i can get some play time in it stays around 52C or so......I dont overclock,And i dont mess with bios settings for the cpu it stays on auto,So that cant be the problem.....I really dont know what else to do so if anyone has any ideas let me know,Thanks......

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

Maybe the video card is bad/overheating, can you try a different card?

Have you checked your Ram?

Download Memtest86+ from www.memtest.org and let it run for at least seven passes. This will at least tell you if you have a ram problem.

If no ram problem is detected then It`s got to be something to do with the video card/drivers etc.

Regards Howard :wave: :wave:

 

[black9]

ya I had the same problem and howard told me about the ram program and it turned out that was it. (I was on another screen name though)

What I did (because I did'nt want to buy new ram) I under clocked the ram then it worked fine You can do that in the bios.

 

[roman1]

Games Crash.

Thanks for the advise guys,I was running out of ideas....The first thing i did was switch video cards and put in a FX 5600 and drivers,And after about ten minutes it to crashed to desktop....So i figured it must be the ram, well i didnt run the memtest(lack of floppy) instead i pulled the ram out of the the wifes computer and installed two sticks of 256 megs....And as i was waiting for it to crash while playing BFV, I noticed that the video card was getting pretty hot...My CPU never really goes above 52C while playing but i have no way of knowing what temp my GPU is running,I just know it was getting hot so i placed a fan closer to the cards heatsink....Would a hot video card shut down games??Because i would rather it be a heat issue and not a hardware problem lol.....I spent way to much money on this set up already......Thanks again

 

[black9]

Thanks for the advise guys,I was running out of ideas....The first thing i did was switch video cards and put in a FX 5600 and drivers,And after about ten minutes it to crashed to desktop....So i figured it must be the ram, well i didnt run the memtest(lack of floppy) instead i pulled the ram out of the the wifes computer and installed two sticks of 256 megs....And as i was waiting for it to crash while playing BFV, I noticed that the video card was getting pretty hot...My CPU never really goes above 52C while playing but i have no way of knowing what temp my GPU is running,I just know it was getting hot so i placed a fan closer to the cards heatsink....Would a hot video card shut down games??Because i would rather it be a heat issue and not a hardware problem lol.....I spent way to much money on this set up already......Thanks again

I'm not sure but did the game not crash with your wifes ram? If so then that would point to it being a ram problem.

Try putting in your ram then when your system is booting keep dressing delete and that should bring up the bios. Then look for a place you can change the clocking speed of the ram. I'm guessing it is probably at 400 so you change it one down to 333 then save changes and see if your game crashes.

If your not sure what opption changes the clocking speed of the ram then look for something that has the options
400
333
266
and im not sure if theres any I missed(This option in my bios is next to my processing option. and I have to choose CPU Operating speed to be define by user and it opens this option)

worked for me

 

[tbrunt3]

Very good possibility here your power supply is going bad ?? How old is it there quite of bit of power going through there.

Are you getting 12volts ?

 

[roman1]

Games Crash.

My power sup is new its an Antec 430w,I picked it up the same time as my mobo....Same thing my game crashed again using my wifes ram about 4 minutes into it,I quickly checked my cpu temp and it was only 47C and i was playing NFSU2 on med settings....Now i read somewhere that hyperthreading can cause some issues with games,And some people have had luck turning it off...So i went into my bios and disabled hyperthreading and put NFSU2 back in and it didnt crash,I was able to play it for about 30 minutes till i shut it down.....Could this have been the cause of games crashing?And will it hurt my system having Hyperthreading off??Oh yeah i also have my ram speed set to auto....Thanks..

 

[tbrunt3]

Never heard of this hyperthreading problem ? This maybe true if your board does not support it but yours does. I have a gamming buddy that uses the intel prescott and never has to disable hyperthreading at all and we play Battlefield LOTRBFME and games like that with no problems.. try setting your ram to SPD and let us know

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Run the Memtest that I advised in my earlier post there is an ISO version that you can burn to cd and run from that.

Regards Howard

 

[black9]

mine used to be set on auto to and games would just quit. So did you try under clocking the ram?

 

[gReal]

All my 3d games and instant messangers run fine for a while then when i go back to play them later they crash. The games i play are neverwinternights platnium, raven sheild, and deus ex. The games work fine for a while if i reinstall them... but eventually the same thing always happens. I ve downloaded all the latest motherboard and video drivers. I even went and bought a new motherboard, an Athlon xp 3000+, a new 160 gig hd, and a 128 mb gforce 5200 fx. I was running an celeron 800mhz with a 1gig ram 50 gig hd 32 mb video card and i got the same problems. My sys temp stays at about 96 to 98 farenheit cpu is about 120 - 130 farenheit. I been searching for a soultion for ever ....can anyone help?

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[satchmo]

Same problem

Check out the thread I started. I've been having the same problem and I already spent the entire week troubleshooting it (without success...yet).

https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic22675.html

Good luck.