Confusing PC Game issuse , Consant Freezing.

Greetings,

I rencently Purchased a new tower about 3 weeks ago,

It was all pre installed & ready to go.

So i installed a ArmA:Armed Assault, it got to the main menu and crashed.

So i restarted , it played for an hour and then the screen froze or it would restarted my computer alltogether.

So i took it back to the shop and guy put a another graphics card in the tower.

I got it back and its still doing the same .

It can crash randomly , after 1 hour of play or after 10 mins , or after 2 mins even.

So i tryed it with another game Day Of Defeat Soruce From Steam . Basically it will play smoothly for about an hour max then crash , then when i go to play it again after restarting it will play for less time and so on , lesser & lesser Game time..

This is really getting anoying i have updated my Graphics Driver & Dircect x and so on.

My GPU idle is at 55 Degree's and 59-60 maybe more during game play.

What i find weird to is when the screen freezes i will hear a fuzzy noise comming from the speakers , Most of the time.

Here are my spec's

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Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.080814-1236)

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz

Memory: 3070MB RAM

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

GALAXY GeForce 9500 GT with 1GB of RAM DDR2

5.1 Channel Audio

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Any Help will be greatly appreciated as this is an on going problem

I have tryed uninstalling my graphics card tests say all drivers are working fine.

I am puzzled


Thanks guys for your time

Jean-Paul

Hi there.

Does the cpu crash without being in a game?

Could be a driver / DirectX problem.

But it sounds to be a loose connection or card somewhere.

Check the cards and the power connectors to the drives and the main board (while the power is off).


JohnDowe.

Perhaps but i have been studying the GPU of the grpahics card and the temp goes upto 50 degree's

and the cpu temp is at mind 40's after it retards itself or i restart it because its crashed.

Thats fine, GPU's generally are designed to handle a lot of heat (i remember the geforce 6800 to tolerate upto 120 before shutdown)

What kind of power supply do you have? It is one of the most easily overlooked component of the computer.