I originally thought that my computer was crashing because of the heat that games caused, but appearently it only crashes on games with high graphics settings. When I try CS:Source on high settings, it crashes. Or I try to play FEAR on high settings, it crashes. However, if I play a less intense game like WoW on high settings, it doesn't crash. But the heat being generated is the same. So, I kind of came to the conclusion that it was my graphics cards causing the lockup.. because of the following: What seems to happen is the driver stops working, because one time when it locked up i got the game to minimize for a second or two before it locked up. I saw something about the driver in a popup box, but I can't remember exactly what it said. But, everything was reverted back to the extreme minimal settings.. resolution and color-wise) this may be completely irrelevant, just thought it might be important. And second, a lot of the time when i try to restart my computer, the computer will do the normal shutdown thingy and instead of booting back up it will just stay on a black screen (the computer is on, but the monitor isn't getting any video.. (i can tell its not getting video because the light flashes green and orange on the monitor -- which is does when i turn it on with the computer off) until i turn the computer off completely, and then back on. Anyway, I know that was long, but I hope you read it. Thanks, hope someone can tell me what might be causing the graphics card to crash, IF it even is the graphics card crashing.
is the videocard fan working & clean of dust as sounds like a heat problem? also check cpu to see if clean & running. how many fans in case & where??
Well, the graphics card fan is working and is not dusty. The heat on the CPU itself gets hot (but the system temperature, hard drive temperatures etc do NOT get hot at all, so I assume the graphics card isn't either). But like I said, when I play the games on medium settings, they don't crash, only on high settings. And both ways generate the same heat. (on the CPU, it seems) - Anyway, just for imformation, I have two fans both in the back, right on top of each other (blowing out). I know this is far from optimum, but I didn't have too many other options, since my case only supports 2 fans (and the ports are on the back, right on top of each other like i said)
do you have an open pci slot on either 1 or both sides of the videocard to install a pci slot blower fan to help cool the card down. can you try the card in a compareable system to see if problem follows or not. are you using updated drivers? have you checked card site faq to see if other people having same problem?
do you have an open pci slot on either 1 or both sides of the videocard to install a pci slot blower fan to help cool the card down. can you try the card in a compareable system to see if problem follows or not. are you using updated drivers? have you checked card site faq to see if other people having same problem? The PCI slot right under my AGP slot is open, so I guess I could get a pci blower fan if necessary.. is there any way to see if my graphics card itself is over heating? I am using the drivers that I got from the www.sapphiretech.com (my card is a sapphire radeon 9800 pro, 128 mb) and they are not the latest ones from ATI, but I did have the latest ones from ATI at one point, and it still crashed.
