Alright, I'm having a serious problem. A few days ago I installed the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II multiplayer beta. While I was playing the game, it suddenly freezes. I wait a few seconds, then realize nothing is happening, so I try a Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Alt-F4, and rapid pounding of the Esc key. Nothing works. I tried to change the screen on my G15 keyboard to the RAM and CPU monitor, but the keyboard was completely locked up too. I just had to shut down my PC and turn it back on. It happened again to me twice on this game. Then it happened once more on Red Alert 3. Finally, the last draw was it happening to me on Fallout 3. I've played countless hours of Fallout 3 without this happening (sometimes a "Fallout 3 has encounter an error and has to close, but never a complete system lockup). Can someone please help me figure out what is going on here? System: Athlon 64 x2 4400+ 2.3GHz 4 gigs of DDR2 800 Radeon 4850 630W PSU
This RAM is relativity new. It runs everything but games just fine. I don't think that is the problem. My friend suggests upgrading my PSU. He thinks my GPU is drawing too much power and is causing the lock ups. Is this likely?
usually the psu running out of grunt causes a full system reboot. Pull the ram one stick at a time.. just because it's nearly new doesn't mean it's any good. I have returned heaps of it lately faulty out of the box. The clue is often that everything works fine.. except games. Sometimes it's the hdd causing it as well.. but that is more obvious as it will mess about at random times like when trying to save files and things. I have a known bad stick of ram here.. it's fine for a while, then it starts causing lockups. It first came to my notice when firefox refused to start on an otherwise fine system... a ram check showed up that it was only 32mb's instead of 256 when in it's fault mode.
Alright, well I don't think my RAM is bad because I just played Fallout 3 for about 4 or 5 hours yesterday without any crashing. That, however, was in Windows Vista. The crashing still occurs in Windows XP. Any another suggestions?
Here is an update on my situation. I've been running Fallout 3 and Warhammer 40,000: DoW 2 perfectly fine on Windows Vista the past few days. I know it's not a hardware problem, so it must be something else. Please, this problem is killing me. I need some serious help.
I don't use any of that crap.. so I can only guess that it is something to do with those games and xp running out of some system resource, or a conflicting driver.. or an unsupported call to something. Don't care.. XP is obsolete, fista is outdated monolithic rubbish.. lost interest years ago with anything M$ make. DX10 conware drivers?? that's a good starting point
its not ram. if it were ram you'd see the blue screen. Your system files are slightly out of order, the best thing would be to just do system restore to when it work perfectly. alternatively, you could defragment your hard drive and it could help in preventing it. but i'd say do the 1st option as its quicker.
