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tiger025 · 05-14-2005, 10:35 PM

Often when I play a 3D game for ~30 mins or longer, The game image just freezes on the screen, and I have to restart my PC. The amount of time after which it freezes is not consistant. Sometiems I can play for 4 hours, sometimes after 30 mins it freezes. Recently I have been getting some "artifacts" (video) after playing HL2 and Guild Wars, for a while. So the next played a game, I had a program open to monitor the temp of my mobo, and I had nvidias control panel open to monitor the temp of my Vid Card. I played for a few hours, and the cpu temp was fine, 48C most of the time, and the GPU was fine as well, 65C most of the time. The only thing that was was troubling that my "NB fan speed" slowed down to like 900rpm at one point, and some alarm went off. However its been fine for a few days now, and its gone back to ~2500 rpm.

I just need some advice as to what is the most likely to be wrong here.

I have a 2.8 P4 [Northwood] 800mhz FSB, No OC
4 X 256MB ddr400 some budget ram.
evga 6800nu 128MB [all stock hsf etc, i dont know much about chageing them]

I know a bit about computers, but even so when my computer was overheating a while ago, I dinnt feel comfortable installing a new hsf over my processor, so I took it to Comp usa and had them do it. ( I just dont know how to put on the hsf and compund or something) And it Has worked fine since. Anyway, if I need to get a new vid card to fix this, thats no problem for me. I'd be happy getting a 6800GT or ultra if I have the $$. However, if it looks like it maybe a Mobo/CPu Fan HSF problem as well, I think I will want CompUsa to try and fix it or something.

please let me know what you think. Also i have thing CD i made to check my RAM. So I think I will do that again just to rule out the ram factor. But I think that the fact Im having artifacts, means my Vid card is shot or something?

05-14-2005, 10:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
tiger025 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 174 OS: Winxp SP2 My System	Game Freezes, and Artifacts Often when I play a 3D game for ~30 mins or longer, The game image just freezes on the screen, and I have to restart my PC. The amount of time after which it freezes is not consistant. Sometiems I can play for 4 hours, sometimes after 30 mins it freezes. Recently I have been getting some "artifacts" (video) after playing HL2 and Guild Wars, for a while. So the next played a game, I had a program open to monitor the temp of my mobo, and I had nvidias control panel open to monitor the temp of my Vid Card. I played for a few hours, and the cpu temp was fine, 48C most of the time, and the GPU was fine as well, 65C most of the time. The only thing that was was troubling that my "NB fan speed" slowed down to like 900rpm at one point, and some alarm went off. However its been fine for a few days now, and its gone back to ~2500 rpm. I just need some advice as to what is the most likely to be wrong here. I have a 2.8 P4 [Northwood] 800mhz FSB, No OC 4 X 256MB ddr400 some budget ram. evga 6800nu 128MB [all stock hsf etc, i dont know much about chageing them] I know a bit about computers, but even so when my computer was overheating a while ago, I dinnt feel comfortable installing a new hsf over my processor, so I took it to Comp usa and had them do it. ( I just dont know how to put on the hsf and compund or something) And it Has worked fine since. Anyway, if I need to get a new vid card to fix this, thats no problem for me. I'd be happy getting a 6800GT or ultra if I have the $$. However, if it looks like it maybe a Mobo/CPu Fan HSF problem as well, I think I will want CompUsa to try and fix it or something. please let me know what you think. Also i have thing CD i made to check my RAM. So I think I will do that again just to rule out the ram factor. But I think that the fact Im having artifacts, means my Vid card is shot or something?