Freezing with buzzing or screeching

omgbattletoads · 06-04-2008, 12:28 AM

Hey guys, I've looked through Google and this website for weeks on end trying to find a possible solution for my nightmare of a rig, but I simply can't figure this thing out. Here's what happens: on any graphic intensive game after a random interval of time passes, the game will freeze with either a buzzing noise or a repeated sound loop of my last immediate action with screeching. The more graphic intensive the game is, the faster it happens (Unreal Tourny 2004 freezes 10% of the time, Battlefield 2 freezes 50% of the time, Gears of war freezes after about 5-10 minutes of playing)

Things I've Tried:

1) It's not the cooling. I have two high-powered fans installed on my case and GPU temps never rise above 72 degrees. I even bought a newer fan just to make sure

2) I've updated my motherboard, sound card, video card and every other thing that could possibly be updated...it is all up to date. Official versions too, nothing is a beta patch.

3) I've tried cleaning out my interior with a compressed air canister...wasn't much dust.

4) I've run memtest twice, but came up with no errors.

5) Power supply is more than adequate, forget the name and model but its 600-700 Watts of power....more than enough for my rig.

I've read somewhere that I might need to change the voltage and DRAM timing in my BIOS, but I don't know exactly what to change them to (system specs will follow in a few) Also, someone mentioned memory aperture on the video card, but again, I don't know what value I would need to change it to. And form time to time, upon startup the background will have pixels that are out of wack/not colored in properly resulting in multi-colored dots across my screen...this problem corrects itself if I start up a game and then exit.

Please help me. I've been having this problem for a very long time now and I just want this POS bucket of bolts to run BF2 and Gears of War smoothly again.

System Specs:

Mobo: ASUS P4S800D-X
GPU: Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS
Soundcard: Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2
Hard Drives: (2) - Maxtor 6Y080P0 (76.3 GB)
- ST316082 7AS SCSI Disk Device (149 GB)
RAM: (2) Two sticks of 1GB each of the Titan series I believe, need to find the box again, post will be updated with this info ASAP. Changed out my previous RAM for this new set as the last one was giving me problems.

OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2
Nothing is overclocked to my knowledge, unless it is OC by factory make

Thanks!

**TheAtheist** · 06-04-2008, 06:45 AM

Hi OmgBattleToads, welcome to TSF

I have checked out your problem, and i am 100% confident it is not a lack of hardware, as i have a lesser rig than that and i can run some of the games you specify on fairly high spec. So the Hardare should be able to handle it.

Which leads me to another source of the problem, which is a system lockup. The symptoms you point out are indicative that this may be the case, but that does not explain the pixels that do not colour correctly on boot. We can look at that later.

To see if it is a system lockup, run the games as you would normally, and when the problems you describe happen, let the pc run its course, but the instant it happens take a look and see what state your hard drive light is showing - is it fully coloured for a prolonged period of time or does it intermittently blink?

Cheers
TheAtheist

omgbattletoads · 06-04-2008, 04:15 PM

Seems like a sound suggestion, but I looked at my casing and the light...seems to have burnt out. Is there any other way to tell if it's a hangup or not?

Also, I dicovered an unknown device in my device manager. I couldn't tell what it was for, it just says Multimedia Audio Controller. I uninstalled all drivers for it because I already have a sound card, but the Hardware Wizard keeps finding something everytime I boot up the computer...

**TheAtheist** · 06-05-2008, 03:03 AM

Any Chance of a PrintScreen of the unknown device in Device manager,so we can have a look see what it is, as it could very well be this is aggrevating the problem. Cheers

omgbattletoads · 06-05-2008, 04:49 PM

UPDATE: Memory I believe are 2 Kingston 1GB DDR2 sticks....anyways, heres the screenshot of the device manager. The question mark device is the one in question, I can't figure out what part of my hardware this is...

**TheAtheist** · 06-06-2008, 05:05 AM

hmm, my oversight, but that doesnt help as much as i thought it would. Anyway, do you know the name of your Sound card and can you find this on the other parts of the device manager. This should tell us wether the device in error is actually your sound card or if its something else.

If it is your sound card, post back with the name and make and we'll find you the latest drivers for it to make sure this isnt the cause.

Cheers
TheAtheist

SnowmanG20 · 06-06-2008, 05:29 AM

i noticed you have Daemon tools in your screenshot, and daemon tools is usually for ISO's downloaded illegally, therefore i cant help you, sorry

Jack.Sparrow · 06-06-2008, 05:51 AM

Hi omgbattletoads,

In your next reply, along with what TheAtheist has requested, could you post your voltages and temperatures. I know you're sure it's not a heating issue, this is just to make absolutely sure that that is the case and that your PSU is functioning correctly.

Both these readings can be obtained using PC Wizard - http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

omgbattletoads · 06-07-2008, 02:15 PM

My soundcard is an Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2, I've updated it like 9 times but maybe I've been using the wrong drivers. And here's a screenshot of the voltages

omgbattletoads · 06-10-2008, 01:20 PM

Uh.....bump anyone?

dai · 06-10-2008, 01:34 PM

cpu is to hot
redo the paste with some arctic silver
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_s...structions.htm
the only things that can screach are
a fan
a drive motor
a tinkling clicking sound if a wire touches a fan blade
a bios beep that sounds like a siren if the cpu o/heats
what does the bios list the temps and voltages as

omgbattletoads · 06-12-2008, 03:02 PM

As I said before, it's NOT the heat, Rivatuner clocks the temperature as never going above 70 in the most graphic intensive games I have. I took a screenshot of voltages and temperature using PC Wizard in a post above.

Any other suggestions?

dai · 06-12-2008, 03:51 PM

i was refering to your cpu not your gpu and it's to hot

UK_gamer · 06-13-2008, 03:11 AM

Yeh man he is right. 55 degrees is way too hot bro. Processors will generally run without damage up to 90 degrees depending on the model. However high temperatures vastly reduce your systems performance. I would consider a water cooling solution, because even the best air cooled solutions (Tuniq Tower 120) arent really enough. If you really want maximum stability and temperatures for your games you should purchase a 225W peltier from www.dangerden.com and attach a water cooler to the hot side.

06-04-2008, 12:28 AM	#1 (permalink)
omgbattletoads Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 6 OS: XP2	Freezing with buzzing or screeching Hey guys, I've looked through Google and this website for weeks on end trying to find a possible solution for my nightmare of a rig, but I simply can't figure this thing out. Here's what happens: on any graphic intensive game after a random interval of time passes, the game will freeze with either a buzzing noise or a repeated sound loop of my last immediate action with screeching. The more graphic intensive the game is, the faster it happens (Unreal Tourny 2004 freezes 10% of the time, Battlefield 2 freezes 50% of the time, Gears of war freezes after about 5-10 minutes of playing) Things I've Tried: 1) It's not the cooling. I have two high-powered fans installed on my case and GPU temps never rise above 72 degrees. I even bought a newer fan just to make sure 2) I've updated my motherboard, sound card, video card and every other thing that could possibly be updated...it is all up to date. Official versions too, nothing is a beta patch. 3) I've tried cleaning out my interior with a compressed air canister...wasn't much dust. 4) I've run memtest twice, but came up with no errors. 5) Power supply is more than adequate, forget the name and model but its 600-700 Watts of power....more than enough for my rig. I've read somewhere that I might need to change the voltage and DRAM timing in my BIOS, but I don't know exactly what to change them to (system specs will follow in a few) Also, someone mentioned memory aperture on the video card, but again, I don't know what value I would need to change it to. And form time to time, upon startup the background will have pixels that are out of wack/not colored in properly resulting in multi-colored dots across my screen...this problem corrects itself if I start up a game and then exit. Please help me. I've been having this problem for a very long time now and I just want this POS bucket of bolts to run BF2 and Gears of War smoothly again. System Specs: Mobo: ASUS P4S800D-X GPU: Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS Soundcard: Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Hard Drives: (2) - Maxtor 6Y080P0 (76.3 GB) - ST316082 7AS SCSI Disk Device (149 GB) RAM: (2) Two sticks of 1GB each of the Titan series I believe, need to find the box again, post will be updated with this info ASAP. Changed out my previous RAM for this new set as the last one was giving me problems. OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Nothing is overclocked to my knowledge, unless it is OC by factory make Thanks!

06-04-2008, 06:45 AM	#2 (permalink)
TheAtheist TSF Articles Team Join Date: May 2006 Location: Portishead, Bristol Posts: 1,221 OS: xp sp3 My System	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching Hi OmgBattleToads, welcome to TSF I have checked out your problem, and i am 100% confident it is not a lack of hardware, as i have a lesser rig than that and i can run some of the games you specify on fairly high spec. So the Hardare should be able to handle it. Which leads me to another source of the problem, which is a system lockup. The symptoms you point out are indicative that this may be the case, but that does not explain the pixels that do not colour correctly on boot. We can look at that later. To see if it is a system lockup, run the games as you would normally, and when the problems you describe happen, let the pc run its course, but the instant it happens take a look and see what state your hard drive light is showing - is it fully coloured for a prolonged period of time or does it intermittently blink? Cheers TheAtheist __________________ Submit New Articles "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - James M. Barrie Join the TSF folding team - Team 85015

06-04-2008, 04:15 PM	#3 (permalink)
omgbattletoads Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 6 OS: XP2	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching Seems like a sound suggestion, but I looked at my casing and the light...seems to have burnt out. Is there any other way to tell if it's a hangup or not? Also, I dicovered an unknown device in my device manager. I couldn't tell what it was for, it just says Multimedia Audio Controller. I uninstalled all drivers for it because I already have a sound card, but the Hardware Wizard keeps finding something everytime I boot up the computer...

06-05-2008, 03:03 AM	#4 (permalink)
TheAtheist TSF Articles Team Join Date: May 2006 Location: Portishead, Bristol Posts: 1,221 OS: xp sp3 My System	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching Any Chance of a PrintScreen of the unknown device in Device manager,so we can have a look see what it is, as it could very well be this is aggrevating the problem. Cheers __________________ Submit New Articles "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - James M. Barrie Join the TSF folding team - Team 85015

06-06-2008, 05:05 AM	#6 (permalink)
TheAtheist TSF Articles Team Join Date: May 2006 Location: Portishead, Bristol Posts: 1,221 OS: xp sp3 My System	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching hmm, my oversight, but that doesnt help as much as i thought it would. Anyway, do you know the name of your Sound card and can you find this on the other parts of the device manager. This should tell us wether the device in error is actually your sound card or if its something else. If it is your sound card, post back with the name and make and we'll find you the latest drivers for it to make sure this isnt the cause. Cheers TheAtheist __________________ Submit New Articles "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - James M. Barrie Join the TSF folding team - Team 85015

06-06-2008, 05:29 AM	#7 (permalink)
SnowmanG20 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 58 OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 My System	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching i noticed you have Daemon tools in your screenshot, and daemon tools is usually for ISO's downloaded illegally, therefore i cant help you, sorry __________________ Gamertag: AceCGU Games: Crackdown, Guitar Hero 3, Halo 3, Assassins Creed, Bully, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, The Simpsons Game, Rock Band

06-06-2008, 05:51 AM	#8 (permalink)
Jack.Sparrow Moving .... Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Qld, Aus Posts: 17,533 OS: XP SP3/Vista SP1 My System Blog Entries: 6	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching Hi omgbattletoads, In your next reply, along with what TheAtheist has requested, could you post your voltages and temperatures. I know you're sure it's not a heating issue, this is just to make absolutely sure that that is the case and that your PSU is functioning correctly. Both these readings can be obtained using PC Wizard - http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php __________________ //PC Wizard//Speedfan//Can you run it?//Posting Screenshots//Posting System Specs//Donations//

06-10-2008, 01:20 PM	#10 (permalink)
omgbattletoads Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 6 OS: XP2	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching Uh.....bump anyone?

06-10-2008, 01:34 PM	#11 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 44,939 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching cpu is to hot redo the paste with some arctic silver http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_s...structions.htm the only things that can screach are a fan a drive motor a tinkling clicking sound if a wire touches a fan blade a bios beep that sounds like a siren if the cpu o/heats what does the bios list the temps and voltages as __________________

06-12-2008, 03:02 PM	#12 (permalink)
omgbattletoads Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 6 OS: XP2	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching As I said before, it's NOT the heat, Rivatuner clocks the temperature as never going above 70 in the most graphic intensive games I have. I took a screenshot of voltages and temperature using PC Wizard in a post above. Any other suggestions?

06-12-2008, 03:51 PM	#13 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 44,939 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching i was refering to your cpu not your gpu and it's to hot __________________

06-13-2008, 03:11 AM	#14 (permalink)
UK_gamer Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: UK Posts: 7 OS: Windows XP x64 Edition Service Pack 2 My System	Re: Freezing with buzzing or screeching Yeh man he is right. 55 degrees is way too hot bro. Processors will generally run without damage up to 90 degrees depending on the model. However high temperatures vastly reduce your systems performance. I would consider a water cooling solution, because even the best air cooled solutions (Tuniq Tower 120) arent really enough. If you really want maximum stability and temperatures for your games you should purchase a 225W peltier from www.dangerden.com and attach a water cooler to the hot side.