So I recently bought a new system and it has crashed a lot for a couple of days.
When ingame for example as it happened in the last crash.
Playing newly bought GTAIVLS; Gay Tony was ranting and a new character stepped in the picture,
and then the screen abruptly goes black and the sound stalls up and loops for a second or two.
It also shows that it has lost the DVI connection.
Specs are:
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, Socket-AM3
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T Processor (6 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
2 x 4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz CL9
Fractal Design Tesla 650W PSU
Windows 7 64bit
I have updated BIOS as well as the graphics card.
Hope you guys can help me to some extent
Thanks in advance :)
Possibly overheating, check temperatures
Also if you bought the game in steam, check the integrity of the game cache files.
Is your display driver crashing and then being recovered?
If you're not sure, look in the Event Viewer, under the summary expand the 'Warning' category and see if there is anything there with the event ID 4101 or with 'Display' as the source. Double click it and see the extra info. If it's 'Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has successfully recovered' or something along those lines then check out my thread [url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1100326-The-nvlddmkm-error-%28big-post-help-me-and-others%29]here[/url] and try some of the steps I did. I know that's about the similar nvidia issue, but they often have similar causes. In my case it turned out to be some bad RAM, hopefully it's only coincidental that I have the same type of RAM as you.
If it is nvidia drivers crashing, it is NOT a software problem. General causes is overheating, voltage flucuation, and other hardware errors. I advise dusting your computer with an aircompressor (including the power supply) then swap the powercord running from the gpu into a different slot in your powersupply.
I've also heard someone fixed their problem by buying a new set of faster RAM.
[QUOTE=halflife_123;30975948]Is your display driver crashing and then being recovered?
If you're not sure, look in the Event Viewer, under the summary expand the 'Warning' category and see if there is anything there with the event ID 4101 or with 'Display' as the source. Double click it and see the extra info. If it's 'Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has successfully recovered' or something along those lines then check out my thread [url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1100326-The-nvlddmkm-error-%28big-post-help-me-and-others%29]here[/url] and try some of the steps I did. I know that's about the similar nvidia issue, but they often have similar causes. In my case it turned out to be some bad RAM, hopefully it's only coincidental that I have the same type of RAM as you.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I found a similar error under Event Viewer it says "amdkmdap". I have tried as you did to move the ram sticks around.
The screen only shows a blank black screen if I have the RAMs anywhere else but slot 1 and 3, it will start with only 1 RAM in slot 1 but I still get the same error when trying to play a game.
If I try a different RAM, as I did just a few moments ago, it wouldn't start up no matter which slot they were in.
[QUOTE=Mr.Egg;30993668]Yeah I found a similar error under Event Viewer it says "amdkmdap". I have tried as you did to move the ram sticks around.
The screen only shows a blank black screen if I have the RAMs anywhere else but slot 1 and 3, it will start with only 1 RAM in slot 1 but I still get the same error when trying to play a game.
If I try a different RAM, as I did just a few moments ago, it wouldn't start up no matter which slot they were in.[/QUOTE]
I think with a lot of mobos you need one stick in slot 1 regardless of where the rest are to boot successfully so that makes sense. I'm trying to make sense of your post, have you tried either stick in slot 1 on its own and still had a crash?
If that's the case then you either have 2 bad sticks of RAM (unlikely, but then again that is the case with me) or there is something else causing it, have you tried any of the steps in the first post in my thread?
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