A few weeks ago while playing The Secret World Beta my PC locked up randomly, requiring me to restart my system. Now it seems that whenever I play something I run the risk of suffering a system lock up.
At first I thought it might be temperature related but I have been meticulously monitoring both my CPU and Video Card temps.
My average Video Card temp is 50C and my average CPU temp is between 50C & 60C. Both of these temps are while playing games on max settings.
The most recent example of this issue would be playing Civ V MP. A friend of mine takes quite a long time on his turns in Civ so I like to have my game windowed at 1440x900 so I can do stuff while waiting on him.
After the second lock up on Civ I thought that perhaps it was CPU or RAM usage because I was doing so much multitasking on my PC, but my RAM usage never gets above 50% and my CPU usage usually stays around 65% when I do stuff like this.
I looked through Event Viewer and the only critical event is that my computer lost power unexpectedly. Which is because I had to restart it manually due to the lock up.
I attempted to time myself to see if the lockups occurred after a certain amount of playtime, but I have gotten times ranging from 5 mins to an hour.[B]
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Those temperatures that pretty high, I get like 40C In and out of games. You should check up on your CPU. (Dust etc)
[QUOTE=12voltsdc;36453018]Those temperatures that pretty high, I get like 40C In and out of games. You should check up on your CPU. (Dust etc)[/QUOTE]
Well, I dusted my case last week. I do get around 40C while out of games. The only thing I can think to do for my CPU would be to reapply thermal paste.
[B]UPDATE:[/B]
I took your advice and checked out my case innards, specially CPU cooling. At first I didn't see anything wrong, but after another freeze I decided that I had missed something.
On the second go around I noticed that I had set up CPU heat sink fans like this for some reason (air-->HEATSINK<--air). I switched them to act as air intake for the back of my case and now my idle temp for my CPU sits around 33C-35C.
I also noticed that I had somehow unplugged my front intake fan so I fixed that as well.
As of 3 hours, no freezing.
Temperatures have not changed since I last posted and the lock ups are back. So far the games that have locked up my system are Civ V, Skyrim, and The Secret World.
Describe the lock up, What actually happens?
[QUOTE=12voltsdc;36515674]Describe the lock up, What actually happens?[/QUOTE]
Screen freezes, system stops responding to any sort of mouse or keyboard input, and the audio freezes, with that awful buzzing noise. Or no buzzing noise if there is nothing making any noise in the game when the lock up occurs.
As for what happens in game, it doesn't seem to matter. I could be standing still or in the middle of a fight and the result is the same. Or in Civ V's case, clicking on stuff or not clicking on stuff.
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UPDATE:
[/B]Still having the lock ups for Skyrim. Civ V seems to run fine as long as I don't have it in windowed mode. As for The Secret World, I can't say. The Beta ended.
At this point Skyrim is the only game giving me these issues. I have run burn-in tests and benchmark tests for my CPU and Video Card as well as testing my RAM. Nothing is showing any problems.
I cannot figure out why Skyrim is the only game that causes these lock ups.
[QUOTE=Bishop869;36657466]At this point Skyrim is the only game giving me these issues. I have run burn-in tests and benchmark tests for my CPU and Video Card as well as testing my RAM. Nothing is showing any problems.
I cannot figure out why Skyrim is the only game that causes these lock ups.[/QUOTE]
Don't use Burn-in test. You should use [url]http://www.ocbase.com/index.php/download[/url]. It's used by overclockers to test stability.
[QUOTE=Drumdevil;36659530]Don't use Burn-in test. You should use [URL]http://www.ocbase.com/index.php/download[/URL]. It's used by overclockers to test stability.[/QUOTE]
Alright. Running it now on GPU. Will report findings when I wake up.
[B]UPDATE:
[/B]I tried using OCCT but for some reason it keeps stopping the GPU test after about a minute or so. It says "Stopped User Cancelled" as if I hit the OFF button for the test. Am I doing something wrong here?
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