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I have an issue where my computer would freeze during gameplay or even watching youtube videos. On a side note, I'm not sure if it's a related issue, but when starting up a game or starting up a Youtube Video (I'm guessing when Flash runs), there is a slight hang that occurs. And when I am listening to music, you can "hear" that hang as it sounds like an auto-tuned robot.
Unfortunately after a series of attempts to fix this problem, I cannot find a solution.
Types of errors according to EVENT VIEWER:
I encountered the 0x116 Bugcheck Error (Event ID 1001): I was told to update my graphics card to the latest driver, which I did (last working driver was 258.96 and updated to 266.58) but all it did was replicate a new error, the 'stopped responding and successfully recovered' error. This also happens with any new driver 260 and higher.
The only other errors that were possibly relevant to the issue at hand were "Audit events had been dropped." Which according to my google research, meant that there were so many issues that my computer could not log all of them.
(Note: My current driver and the driver that worked without this "stopped responding" error is 258.96)
Not sure if anybody can confirm these:
I read at some forums that there seems to be a compatibility issue between the driver and my GTX 460.
I also read at the Nvidia forums that there might possibly be compatibility issues between my motherboard and my graphics card?
What I did so far (but failed):
Ways to reproduce the freezing: Happens very frequently when playing Left 4 Dead 2. No matter how low I put the graphic settings, the computer "hang" and audio auto-tune always occurs at the beginning of a new map. There are also few occasions during the map that the freezing occurs (there really seems to be no pattern).
Sidenote:
Only settings in my BIOS that are not default settings is my RAM. Set to 667 MHz frequency with 9-9-9-24 and 32 tRC, 2T
I run Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
I don't know how to upload MEMORY.DMP :4-dontkno
I think I set my settings so that computer is not force reset: I believe this is why I don't get BSODs but rather freezing and I have to hard reset?
Let me know if you need any screenshots on the monitors or anything. I'm pretty damn close to sending this computer to a repair shop and wasting $200+ on service :sigh:
I really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately after a series of attempts to fix this problem, I cannot find a solution.
Types of errors according to EVENT VIEWER:
I encountered the 0x116 Bugcheck Error (Event ID 1001): I was told to update my graphics card to the latest driver, which I did (last working driver was 258.96 and updated to 266.58) but all it did was replicate a new error, the 'stopped responding and successfully recovered' error. This also happens with any new driver 260 and higher.
The only other errors that were possibly relevant to the issue at hand were "Audit events had been dropped." Which according to my google research, meant that there were so many issues that my computer could not log all of them.
(Note: My current driver and the driver that worked without this "stopped responding" error is 258.96)
Not sure if anybody can confirm these:
I read at some forums that there seems to be a compatibility issue between the driver and my GTX 460.
I also read at the Nvidia forums that there might possibly be compatibility issues between my motherboard and my graphics card?
What I did so far (but failed):
- I monitored my temperatures (HW Monitor). Everything seemed normal and whilst playing a window-mode game, the last temperature I saw was 51C on my CPU, everything else was in the low 40s. Keep in mind, this window-mode game that I played has a minimum requirement of a Pentium 4 processor, so it's a pretty damn old game.
- I ran prime95, and the tests passed flawlessly. CPU temps ran as high as 56C with no freezing.
- I ran memtest and passed with flying colors (9 tests)
- I ran Furma, in which the GPU temperature got as hot as 71C and again no freezing occurred.
- I ran Evga OC Scanner with no abnormal results. GPU got as hot as 69C with no artifacts.
- I set my page file size to <minimum: 6144 to maximum: 8020>
- Defaulted my voltage for CPU from 1.35 to Auto in BIOS
- I reinstalled the OS
Ways to reproduce the freezing: Happens very frequently when playing Left 4 Dead 2. No matter how low I put the graphic settings, the computer "hang" and audio auto-tune always occurs at the beginning of a new map. There are also few occasions during the map that the freezing occurs (there really seems to be no pattern).
Sidenote:
Only settings in my BIOS that are not default settings is my RAM. Set to 667 MHz frequency with 9-9-9-24 and 32 tRC, 2T
I run Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
I don't know how to upload MEMORY.DMP :4-dontkno
I think I set my settings so that computer is not force reset: I believe this is why I don't get BSODs but rather freezing and I have to hard reset?
Let me know if you need any screenshots on the monitors or anything. I'm pretty damn close to sending this computer to a repair shop and wasting $200+ on service :sigh:
I really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.