About 2-3 weeks ago I started getting this weird freezing problem while playing CS: Source. It started as just a small little freeze here and there which at first I figured might be lag, but soon got worse. It ended up leading to random restarts at anytime (although these have been rare, but they have happened at least 5 times) and sometimes my screen will just go black for about a second or two and then reappear. The freezin stuff only happens in games, or at least Source since that's all I've played recently. The random black screen only happens if I'm not playing (at desktop, internet, etc.) and now this new thing has started happening where Source will just crash completely and end. Like it'll stop for about a second and I'll here that little noise that goes BUM like a soft beep and it'll take me to the desktop. About a week ago when it was starting to get severe I did a system restore to a time way before this and then it started happening again eventually after like a day. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, gotten new drivers, done everything you can with drivers and that hasn't done anything. My temps might have a small part in the restarts I think since sometimes the temps get a little high since it has been hot lately around my area. Also, I can't figure out how to use memtest. I downloaded it and extracted it, so now it's in a folder called BOOT with another file inside of it titled BOOT as well, but I still have no idea how to use memtest so can someone help me with that as well? And I did prime95 and got no erros on tests that didn't require any memory or only a little and then I ran tests that used a lot and I got hardware erros in like 5 seconds. So at this point I'm thinking the whole MAIN thing could be the ram especially if I could figure out memtest and part of it could be recent high temps (not hsf issue though since when I turn on the AC in my house temps goes down) at least for the rare restart issue. Also realy quick here is my setup: AMD 64 3500+ Winchester w/arctic silver and Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu HSF Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Crucial Ballistix 2x512MB Seagate 120GB SATA 2 Leadtek 6600GT TDH Extreme Antec 480W TrueBlue NEC Dual Layer DVD Burner 3520-A Windows XP Pro SP1 Average temps before rising heat, mobo 33C-34C tops, cpu 41-42 tops, now with more heat in the area, mobo 38 average, but has gotten to 40 a few times, cpu reached 50 once, but averages 48. But that's just from Spring which has been like summer thus far in LA. Pretty much it. Thanks a million to whoever can help me.
memtest86-put the whole BOOT folder onto a Floppy, or burn to a cd and boot from floppy/cd! Your temps are fine
Ok well I got the folder onto a cd, but I still can't get it boot up from the disc. I even changed my boot disc priority or whatever it's called to read the cd rom first and nothing...
