.. and crashes, I have a Amd 64 prosseser and nvidia graphis card this happens when trying to play anything with good graphics its happend in WOW and in chaos legue an age of mithology. Help?
2006-08-18 13:10:38 · 9 answers · asked by patrick B 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Hi There...
There are some good suggestions, and the one above about the SOUND CARD seems the most likely.
I would open the case and clean all fans and heatsinks. Since the unit only fails with a high end program, there is definitely an over stressed component in there somewhere.... Again, the notes to make certain all fans are actually turning is a prudent idea.
Computers are really complex, and the problems and solutions may be different on different machines, so that you are best to methodically try different tests to see where the problem is.
The answer about the sound card is a good one - run some test game or sound file, and put your baby finger on the sound chip where ever it is ( card / onboard? ) and if you can't hold your finger on it for 10 seconds because of heat, you have a really hot chip. I go thru my entire computer, testing each chip on ALL cards, and on all motherboard chips and on all harddrive chips, and if they are hot, I use a hacksaw and cut up older CPU heatsinks to fit, and using heatsink paste and high-temp hotmelt glue, put a heatsink on anything too hot.
Since there is a high pitched sound this sounds like the soundcard is locked at one frequency - can you LOCATE the exact source of the sound? If it is the onboard speaker, the source of the
lockup is complex. It could be that the game has halted, or, some other card has halted the PCI bus, halting the game, or If it is the Soundcard, and speakers, well - the answer is a bit easier. If the sound is comming from the POWER Supply, you have a capacitor overheating and boiling- making a squeeling sound and you are in serious trouble - turn OFF the computer immediately, take out the power supply, and open the case with the 4 tiny screws on the top, and look for bloated, or damaged capacitors with leaking yellowy fluid out cracks in the top or around the rubber plug in the bottom. Your power supply is just barely adequate, and if over heated or stressed, can't deliver enough AMPS. If you continue, you will blow the supply, and usually this takes the 5 Volt VSB control circuits on the motherboard as well, so the motherboard will not boot. Get a bigger, good quality power supply.
There can be bad capacitors on any card or on the motherboard as well... Listen to identify.
Another test is to remove ALL CARDS except the video, and run
the program, and see if the unit hangs. Put back the soundcard
( unless it is onboard already ), re-test. Then put back all cards, testing in between each one.
Disconnect all CD's and drives except C: - same tests.
It is really important to find the EXACT location of the squeeling sound.
Someone suggested that this could be the motherboard's built in
self monitoring Voltage, CPU speed, Temperature warning system, which you can access from the BIOS. Most motherboard manufacturers also have a Windows application you can download to monitor the BIOS from within Windows, so that you could have this running in a window in a corner of the screen while testing... There are some free generic motherboard temp/speed programs as well.
Follow these testing steps, clean everything, make certain you have adequate ventilation, and you will likely find the problem.
Post an additional comment if these steps do not help you, and
you will get more help. If you find out where the sound is comming from, please add this information. If you check your BIOS monitor, what are the settings? Note that if the temperature warning is sounding, you can add case fans on the front and
back ( as someone suggested above ), or add a bigger heatsink
and fan on the CPU ( if that is the alarm that is tripping the computer ).
Lastly... as most of the answers above state, you may have to
add ram, but as someone pointed out, you did not state your present ram ... how many slots do you have of what kind and
what is in them and what is the max that board will accept?
Since you have what sounds like a higher- end computer, everyone should assume that you are runing a minimum of 512.
Different OS's use different amounts of ram and, have different ways of managing the ram. XP typically runs "OK" on 512, and for memory extensive programs, 1 GIG is nice to avoid using
VIRTUAL memory read/ writes to the harddrive ( SLOW ! ).
Good luck
robin
2006-08-18 15:40:31 · answer #1 · answered by robin_graves 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I had something like that with WoW and my on-board sound card. Newer games also stress out sound cards a bit more. Friend of mine fixed it for me with a cheap new sound card. You could also try installing the newest driver for your current card... might work and is cheaper than new ram.
Did anyone notice that he didn't 'say' how much ram he had? How can u all assume it's lack of ram? Of course you can try the ram part too if all else fails... can't really have too much as long as your MB supports it :)
2006-08-18 13:38:07 · answer #2 · answered by Cosmosis 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i had a similar problem, my machine would work all day in windows fine, but when i switched to an intensive graphices game it froze, seemingly stuck in a loop. the problem was the RAM, i checked forums and found loads of speculative answers but i reckon you got the same problem. Try replacing the RAM (its not expensive)
2006-08-18 14:16:49 · answer #3 · answered by jarrajackie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Folks need to get off the RAM. Yes, it's important, but no it won't fix your woes.
What you have sounds like a heat problem. Since you're running somewhat high end machinery you need atleast 2 exhaust fans and one intake fan. 120mm fans work better and a case that is alluminum gets rid of heat better than plastic or steel.
2006-08-18 13:20:36 · answer #4 · answered by Leif B 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
you need to upgrade your memory .system ram
as for the big noise. that that is coz the computer freezes while you had the pc game running just upgrade your memory .system ram and all will be fine
2006-08-18 13:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Computer is too hot. Are your fans at low speed? Go into your bios and increase the warning temperature. Over 80 C is pretty hot.
Other than that. Make sure you installed your CPU heatsink correctly. Even if a small millimeter of the CPU is expose, the CPU will get hot.
And is the fan on your video card working?
2006-08-18 13:19:26 · answer #6 · answered by blazeimurill 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
That happened to me when i played CS: source with full settings, my computer couldnt handle it. also, i only had 512mb of ram...once i got a full gig, it stopped =)
2006-08-18 15:21:06 · answer #7 · answered by Unknown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your computer proably doesn't have enought RAM to play graphic-intensive games. Try getting at least 512 MB. You can get some memory sticks cheap here: http://froogle.google.com/froogle?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGIC,GGIC:1970--2,GGIC:en&q=512%20Ram&sa=N&tab=wf
2006-08-18 13:18:39 · answer #8 · answered by df747jet 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
You don't have enough RAM to support the graphics. You need to upgrade your memory.
2006-08-18 13:15:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋