Games freezing, dvd freezing...video card??

[Windsor]

Weell, I built this computer for a friend, and after some problems with jumpers and stuff being recognized, I gave it to him, thinking it'd be perfectly fine. Then, I get news that his games are freezing on him for no particular reason, we thought it might have been overheating or something, so I told him to open up the case, put a fan there to cool it off a bit. We tried it, the temp lowered a few degrees, but things still froze on us. We thought it might be drivers, we switched those around a bit, and it still won't work. Then maybe it was Directx, but the diagnostics turned up nothing funny. We tried playing a DVD, and that, too, froze up on us after a few minutes.

The games might run for a few minutes, but then it freezes, forcing a
manual reboot. This is confusing and frustrating me...

Its an AMD XP 1800+, 2700 DDR Crucial Ram, Audigy, Gainward Golden Sample Ti4200 128mb and its the Gigabyte GA-7rvxp.

I'm running out of ideas as to how to fix this proble, any help is appreciated!

[Cheesypuff]

I have a hammer!!

Anywho...try putting a old video card into your computer, and see what happens...it everything works fine...than you know it's your video card. Thats what I can think of off the top of my head! sorry not much help

[NullUnit2000]

You are using the latest drivers for all your parts, yes?

Running Windows Update couldn't hurt either.

[Bires]

I'm assuming no overclocking is going on. This is the kind of thing you would see if your processor is not getting enough voltage, like when you ramp up a pentium III from 800 MHz to 1GHz w/o increasing the voltage.

If possible, test the system with a different cpu or run it underclocked for a while.

[Jihforce]

Its because its an AMD.
I have an AMD and I get all sorta of weird stuff happen to it.
I think with AMDs it could be anything, video card, ram, motherboard, drivers, etc...
Not ever buying an AMD again. EVER.

[akuma]

Sounds like an "infinite loop error". Are you running Windows XP? If so, check your error log and let me know.

[Windsor]

Originally posted by akuma
Sounds like an "infinite loop error". Are you running Windows XP? If so, check your error log and let me know.

nope, Win2k, i've heard of these loop things , what are they?

[akuma]

Here's some good info on the error. I had the same problem on an older Soyo board that didn't use the VIA chipset.

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=64

To tell you the truth I did two things. One is I downloaded a tweak program called NVMAX. It has an option that helps resolve the loop error. There's some info on it at this forum link

http://www.geforcezone.com/cgi-bin/y...255182;start=2

Second, a while back I just wiped out my hard drive, and I don't mean do a driver roll back I mean I wiped that sucker clean. As of yet that rig hasn't had the problem again. Keep me updated on what happens.

[cross56]

I hope this helps Windsor. I bought a Ti 4400 and I had the same problem. First remove the video card drivers. Now instead of just double clicking the drivers for the video card, right click anyware on the desktop and go to properties, settings, advanced, adapter and hit change, now if this video card is anything like my Visiontek the drivers have to be in-inf- format to work, anyway do the search thing and find where the drivers are and install the drivers. I figure you built the computer you can figure out the rest. If you don't email me at [email protected]
I believe the gf 4s are pretty finicky in this way. But try that and let me know what happens. Make sure you go into-add, remove programs screen and remove the Nvidia drivers first. I hope this helps.

[Windsor]

Originally posted by cross56
I hope this helps Windsor. I bought a Ti 4400 and I had the same problem. First remove the video card drivers. Now instead of just double clicking the drivers for the video card, right click anyware on the desktop and go to properties, settings, advanced, adapter and hit change, now if this video card is anything like my Visiontek the drivers have to be in-inf- format to work, anyway do the search thing and find where the drivers are and install the drivers. I figure you built the computer you can figure out the rest. If you don't email me at [email protected]
I believe the gf 4s are pretty finicky in this way. But try that and let me know what happens. Make sure you go into-add, remove programs screen and remove the Nvidia drivers first. I hope this helps.

Yeah, I dunno if its the infinite loop or not, but I guess I might have to do another clean install. I switched memory and vid card, updated BIOS, and still just freezes after a little bit. Sound card drivers won't install though, maybe I'll try it to Sb Live! instead of the Audigy. Could it be the mobo or proc causing this?

[cross56]

Also if you can try turning 4X off and use only use 2X. That may solve your problem. Let us know what happens.