• Freezing/crashing difficulties
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Greetings Facepunch, at the moment I am dealing with a disgustingly consistent computer difficulty which revolves itself around permanent freezing and crashing. the problem exists in absolutely every OS that I have attempted, which were W7x84-x64, and the latest Ubuntu x64. In more detailed terms, a permenant freeze/crash occurs when anything graphics intensive is attempted on my machine, such as a game or at times simply viewing a picture. I have made sure of valid drivers by running driver sweeper in safe mode and making sure that everything was wiped before installing the failsafe 186.xx drivers from nvidia for my video card which is listed in my specs. I also always made sure of overheating difficulty prevention by using a custom riva tuner automatic fan profile which usually made the card stay at 50C-60C. The 8600 gt is no longer present in this machine for physx. I am genuinely uncertain of the problem, every possible software related difficulty simply no longer has a capacity for existing( I could be wrong) I have already tested my RAM with memtest, and is quite positive that it is not my CPU. Are any of my computer components incompatible or conflicting? Am I simply astronomically unlucky with something? Please ask questions, I will be monitoring this thread quite consistently. The solution for this problem will most likely revolve appropriate ram tweaking/bios update.
Diagnose your storage drives. It could still be a memory related problem, when you use swap space on a drive and a particular bit of information has been corrupted in the swap space (caused by storage drive or controller malfunction), the computer can freeze up. Also testing your memory whilst using the swap space you use during normal operation, should work too in finding the problem. What you described happened to me once. Turned out the SATA controller was screwed. Memtest86+ does not detect swap space problems, and my physical memory was fine.
[QUOTE=florian;21682153]Diagnose your storage drives. It could still be a memory related problem, when you use swap space on a drive and a particular bit of information has been corrupted in the swap space (caused by storage drive or controller malfunction), the computer can freeze up. Also testing your memory whilst using the swap space you use during normal operation, should work too in finding the problem. What you described happened to me once. Turned out the SATA controller was screwed. Memtest86+ does not detect swap space problems, and my physical memory was fine.[/QUOTE] Are there any specific diagnostic utilities that you would recommend? [editline]05:55AM[/editline] Posted in the wrong section, may I request a move to technical support?
[QUOTE=genkaz92;21684601]Are there any specific diagnostic utilities that you would recommend? [editline]05:55AM[/editline] Posted in the wrong section, may I request a move to technical support?[/QUOTE] Just tried Prime95, my PC started lagging to the point of uselessness. I had to do a hard reset. Just skip all steps except step 3, so just download it, and select Just Stress Testing from the application: [url]http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/[/url]
[QUOTE=florian;21691076]Just tried Prime95, my PC started lagging to the point of uselessness. I had to do a hard reset. Just skip all steps except step 3, so just download it, and select Just Stress Testing from the application: [URL]http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/[/URL][/QUOTE] Thank you very much, incase you were curious, I also posted a thread in this location which deals with precisely the same problem: [URL]http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/724193-consistent-difficulty-startup.html[/URL] I worded it slightly differently, but it deals with the same thing.
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