I have recentley built this rig (fortnight ago) and all was running fine until this evening, basicaly i was playing UIT2004 on internet and every few seconds there was a slight pause (like a jerky action), and this was not present before. I thought it may be the broadband connection (as its from a wireless link upstairs), however i played the single player game and this was the same, i cannot think what has caused this, i tried doom 3 also but this is just the same. Tne only thing i have altered was the core frequency of the cpu from 200 mhz to 215 mhz, however this has been at this setting for a few days now and was fine up until this evening?! Please help!
AMD athlon 4400+ x 2 BFG geforce 7800 OC Gigabyte K8N n force 4 pro sli mobo GeIL value RAM NEC 4550 dual layer dvd writer Samsung spin point 200 GB HDD Antec true power 2.0 420w psu Antec P180 case (with 3 syandard 120 mm fans + 1 additional front mounted asaka 120 mm fan) Benq 17" monitor Everything had been running smoothly until yesterday evening?
Have you tried underclocking your cpu back to 200? You system is fast enough without the need to overclock!
Yes, i have taken the cpu from 215 mhz back down to 200 mhz, also installed some drivers from ngo, these are meant to be good, but still no luck?! Reckon i should just reformat the hdd and reinstall windows and programs/software/drivers! BTW installing a custom water cooling kit in about 10 days and then adding na new gfx card and then adding ocz platinum RAM 2GB - cant wait!
Yeah reformating would be a wise plan, you may have a nasty virus on there as such fps probs on a rig of your calibur is difficult to grasp. If you still have problems (assuming that value ram is 1GB or more) and your GPU isn't overheating (check the temps in the nVidia control panel should be 70*C or less I'd RMA it and try again.
Well i uploaded some drivers from ngo, then restarted the computer when prompted - then every time it got to the windows xp loading screen it kept freezing - so had to reinstall windows - but did not format hard drive - and doom is running even worse now - what should i do next?!
do a fresh install of windows (formatting the drive) might do the trick, as withought formatting the drive you have lots of old instalations left behind. if you dont want to format your drive, split your drive into partitions so one partition is for windows xp and the other/s is/are for installing stuff on and storing important data, so when you format windows xp partition, you wont loose all your other data, as a partition is seen as another hard drive.
Test your RAM with [google]Memtest[/google]. If you're getting any errors while doing an overnight run, then you've got some timing issues or a bad stick of RAM somewhere, and then you'll want to test the sticks individually. Do that and then do a clean (i.e. reformatted) install of Windows. Immediately afterwords do the following: Update to Service Pack 2. Install your chipset drivers next, then the video card, then sound, then other hardware that needs it as necessary. Install your apps and games next, making sure each is updated with the latest patches/updates available.
