Games freeze after hours of smooth play

[amrdesigns]

the installed ati driver is the latest with catalyst 10.3

 

[Bishop1138]

amrdesigns when you said you reformatted your HDD, can we assume you're now running on a fresh install of windows and it's still happening?

 

[Archean]

i tried the driver verifier steps but it always gives me a blue screen and reboot on windows start

what can i do now

hope that solves it

Please post your minidumps here for analysis.

You can find them in C:\Windows\minidump

Also, please confirm that whether you re-installed windows (after formating OS partition) when you changed the motherboard?

 

[Ritwik7]

amrdesigns when you said you reformatted your HDD, can we assume you're now running on a fresh install of windows and it's still happening?

Hi Bishop1138. Have you managed to solve your problem? Was reading this thread yesterday and realised that you had not updated in 3 weeks. So was wondering if the issue was resolved after reverting your CPU to stock speeds.

 

[Bishop1138]

Unfortunately the freezes continue for me though it seems that after switching to my old 8800 that they have lessened in frequency, no clue as to why though

 

[Archean]

Stranger still, I mean I have seen more systems with 8800 series cards with BSODs/Freezing issues, when compared with 4000 series ATI cards. Anyhow, have you tried to use that card in some other system and see how it behaves under stress?

 

[Ritwik7]

Has anyone tried running memtest86+? Since all else seems to fail just try testing your RAM modules one at a time.

 

[Archean]

Good point, I will add one more suggestion to Rit's observation, i.e. running OCCT and stressing the graphic cards, to determine whether there is an issue.

 

[Zilliak]

i had this problem and it went on for months, with a 8600 gt turned out i didnt have enough power. Dont forget when you overclock you need more power so your motherboard is drawing more for that processor, your GPU is drawing a lot too at the same time, whenever i play crysis my graphics card always freezes up if my processor or Gpu is overclocked i have no idea why but it does. Id set everything back to factory.

 

[amrdesigns]

I don't overclock my ps is 500 watts which is more than enough for my build

yes when I formated my hdd I installed a fresh copy of win7 and the problem is still there

I tried the verifier thing with selecting all non microsoft drivers and it just gave my a blue on startup and rebooted

after that I booted in safe mode and the minidump is attached

 

[Archean]

This crash was caused by STREAM.SYS, this usually is used for USB devices (e.g. digital camera etc.).

Which USB devices do you use?

 

[amrdesigns]

3 devices are always connected to my pc... usb webcam....gamepad..bluetooth set

the game pad is so old and worked for more than 3 years with no problem

the webcam and bluetooth set are about 6-8 months old>>i don't really remember

i will disconnect them and try and tell u..

note: as i said before>>only some games crach while others work with no problem

i am now playing assassin creed II and it's a great game with no craches...

 

[Archean]

Alright, please keep things updated; and if you get any more BSODs don't forget to add minidumps with your posts afterwards.

In case you don't get any crashes, then start adding disconnected devices one by one, hopefully this will help in identifying the device which is causing this issue.