Help please!

I built a new rig about 4 months ago, and was having a problem with games freezing up. I tried a few things, and fixed the issue by increasing the voltage to my RAM by .01 volts. About 2 weeks ago, the problem returned, and this time I thought it might be a driver issue. So I reinstalled windows, but the problem is still there. I have run Memtest86 for about 6 hours and didn't get any errors. Any thoughts?

 

Could be the PSU, you've got a preety beefy rig there, awsome cpu and graphics card, large amount of ram, and then a BFG tech PSU, i dont know much about these PSU's though, but it could be PSU related, although the PSU has dual 12v rails and large amount of power so it may be ok, cant seem to find any details specs of the psu tho, e.g. voltage on +12v rails.

 

yeh i wud suspect the psu.

 

Oh, i just had another though, possibly the CPU overheating, do you think you would be able to find the Idle and Load temperatures of the CPU, the heatsink may not be on properly, or maybe the paste was messed up before it been put on?

 

While playing Dark Messiah Might and Magic, the highest temps that i recorded before it froze were:

CPU: 40 C
GPU: 86 C
And my GPC was running at 641 Mhz

 

hmmm, i am unsure weather it could be the temperature of the GPU, as my Radeon X800XT PE maxxed out at 85 degrees in my old case, and after a while my computer chrashed, and artifacts in games too.

Also, put your ram back to stock voltage and see if more problems occour, infact, reset your bios by jumping the pins on the motherboard (usually 2 pins near the CMOS Battery) and see if that helps, as maybe some settings were messing it up as my ram settings were on optimized or somthing, i have generic ram, and its supposed to be at 3 Cas latency, but was set at 2.5, and that caused problems.

Have you been overclocking any Hardware such as CPU or Graphics card?

 

No, I haven't been overclocking. All of my settings are stock. I'll try resetting my bios.

I tried playing with my case open today, and something new happend. This time, instead of just the game freezing, I got the blue screen of death with a Machine_Check_Exception error. Windows booted up fine after this, and I didn't get a "System has recovered from a serious error" like I've seen before.

 

i sometimes get blue screens and no system recovered from serious error windows.

Maybe its your windows installation?, maybe try re installing windows?

 

I reinstalled windows a couple days ago, and it didn't fix the problem

 

run [link=http://www.memtest.org]Memory Test[/link] and see if u come across any memory error.... also look at ur event viewer what errors are coming (RightClick MyComputer > Event > System/Applications)...double click on the eror and copy paste here...

 

I ran Memtest86 before I reinstalled Windows. It ran for 6 hours, and I didn't get any errors. Here is the error code I got:

Error code 10000050, parameter1 a77a6104, parameter2 00000001, parameter3 805c0d02, parameter4 00000000.

It has happend a few times, but each time i get a different error.

 

if thats with your voltage still bumped up by 0.1v, then put the ram back to its normal voltage.

 

Try resetting BIOS. There could be something set that Windows doesn't like.

BFG's PSU's aren't that bad. I forget what they rebadge, but it's not a bad one.

I would verify that all power connectors on the motherboard (and video card if you have one for that) are plugged in.

 

Check in your Event Viewer..(RightClick MyComputer > Manage > Event > System)
Double click on the errors and copy paste here or use link in my signature to check the Event's from Microsoft Website...