Computer freezes/restarts when i'm Gaming!

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jsparks

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Hey, I bought a BFG 7600GS OC 512mb AGP card and 1GB of Kingston pc3200 memory yesterday. I installed them and am able to surf the web etc without any problems. When I try to play any type of game like Battlefield 2 or Archlord, my screen goes black after a few minutes (first freezes, then goes black, but I can still hear sound from the game even after it goes black!). Sometimes the computer will reboot itself after this happens and sometimes it won't. I updated my nvidia driver to the latest version and have uninstalled all the old ATi drivers. My specs are: 450watt PSU (almost new) - BFG 7600GS OC (new) - 1GB Kingston pc3200 memory (new) - 512mb Corsair XMS pc3200 memory (old) - A7N8X DLX mobo (old) - Athlon 2500+ (Barton, @2ghz (same problem at stock speed), old). My CPU temp currently is 52 idle, mobo is 20. I can max out BF2 with highest reso and get no noticle low framerate with this setup btw : D. Is there some setting or something that's a known problem for this videocard? Thanks!
 
Had the same problem and when it happened all three monitors shut off I was like oh miii god. Upgraded the PSU and it has been owning for 6+ months.
 
50*c isn't hot for that card. My 7600gt is constantly at around 50*c.

Make sure your drivers are updated. If you can check event viewer under administrative tools>control panel.
 
Alright I checked the timings and they're fine, I turned off fast-writing, and used driver cleaner to get rid of the old ATi files, and have a giant house fan blowing into my computer and my cpu temp was 45 while gaming, and it still happened! I just used driver cleaner again and it keeps finding ATi files every time i use it, after every reboot. How the heck do I get rid of these! Is there a reg key hidden somewhere? Could that be causing the problem? Also when my screen turns black I can still hear sound from the game, and my monitor loses it's feed from my videocard (messege comes up on the monitor, and turns off like it would if it wasn't plugged in). And then computer reboots.
 
Oh and my PSU voltages look good. The PSU was bought new not too long ago. And yes the videocard does plug into the PSU. I put pressure on it when i was plugging it in to make sure it was in there. If I did it any harder I think it would have broke so I think it's in there good. This is starting to piss me off
 
jsparks said:
Hey, I bought a BFG 7600GS OC 512mb AGP card and 1GB of Kingston pc3200 memory yesterday. I installed them and am able to surf the web etc without any problems. When I try to play any type of game like Battlefield 2 or Archlord, my screen goes black after a few minutes (first freezes, then goes black, but I can still hear sound from the game even after it goes black!). Sometimes the computer will reboot itself after this happens and sometimes it won't. I updated my nvidia driver to the latest version and have uninstalled all the old ATi drivers. My specs are: 450watt PSU (almost new) - BFG 7600GS OC (new) - 1GB Kingston pc3200 memory (new) - 512mb Corsair XMS pc3200 memory (old) - A7N8X DLX mobo (old) - Athlon 2500+ (Barton, @2ghz (same problem at stock speed), old). My CPU temp currently is 52 idle, mobo is 20. I can max out BF2 with highest reso and get no noticle low framerate with this setup btw : D. Is there some setting or something that's a known problem for this videocard? Thanks!
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Hi jsparks,

What's the brand of your PSU(type, name..)?

Zangetsu
 
It's a 450watt Codegen. I don't think it's my PSU tho... I was running the same games before on a 9250 minus the 1gb of new ram and it was all running fine (looked liek shit, but ran fine).
 
50 Degrees is NOT hot for the 7600 Series.

I have the Gigabyte 7600GS, It idles at 50, Under pressure it plays at 70-80 Degree

I would say drivers being your problem as sound is still working

have you updated your drivers from Nvidia Lately?

As you are not seeing the video, Have you tried Unmounting the card and Remounting?
 
jsparks said:
It's a 450watt Codegen. I don't think it's my PSU tho... I was running the same games before on a 9250 minus the 1gb of new ram and it was all running fine (looked liek shit, but ran fine).
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Hi,

Well... You have played it with a lower range hardware, and if you upgrade your hardware and the PSU can't handle it, that will be the outcome.
But I think a 450W should be enough... but still, you never know.

Zangetsu
 
hermeslyre said:
50*c isn't hot for that card. My 7600gt is constantly at around 50*c.

Make sure your drivers are updated. If you can check event viewer under administrative tools>control panel.
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K3rupt said:
50 Degrees is NOT hot for the 7600 Series.

I have the Gigabyte 7600GS, It idles at 50, Under pressure it plays at 70-80 Degree

I would say drivers being your problem as sound is still working

have you updated your drivers from Nvidia Lately?

As you are not seeing the video, Have you tried Unmounting the card and Remounting?
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"cough" start reading what he wrote, that temp is for the CPU "cough"

jsparks said:
My CPU temp currently is 52 idle, mobo is 20
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look at my sig man, the PSU is alright,i'm running my desktop since more than 1 year with this PSU.

Maybe what i'll say will be considered stupid, but what about RAM, he bought new RAM and added it to the old one, maybe those 2 models arn't compatible, so when he surf on web he dosn't need more than the old 512mo, but when he starts gaming he needs more than his old 512mo, so the computer starts to use the new one, if the models arn't compatible together, it might create a bug. I really dont know if this is possible, but when i saw that the problem is new since the new RAM and gfx card, that's the first thing i thought.
 
Ok smartass, I get it. I mistook the temp.

I don't got any other advice then what's been posted. The PSU shouldn't be the problem as long as it has at least 16 amperes on the +12v, and looking at the rest of the specs I'd consider that a given. If the RAM DIMMs weren't compatible it wouldn't just show signs when gaming, It would refuse to Post. The CPU temp is alittle high, but unless it hit like 80*c load it shouldn't pose much of a problem, still I'd make sure to clean the HS of any dust and reapply thermal paste if at all possible.

Maybe try this. Start, Run, Type Dxdiag, Check the dx files tab for any problems, then go to display and test direct 3d. If it fails then you have narrowed the problem to either the video card itself or the directx files.
 
I have an eVGA 7600GS and I have the same problem...alot of games just randomly freeze and sometimes the game freezes and the computer just randomly restarts. I thought this was due to the fan on the graphics processor being broken (doesn't spin), and taking off the side of my case and putting a fan blowing air into the case seems to have helped, although it still happens.

Otherwise, I don't really know what to say...I'm planning on getting a 8800GTS soon, so that's my solution. :P If the card is brand new, I suppose you could call up BFG and bitch to their customer service/tech support for a while until they send you a new one.
 
well when it freeze i know it is the DRIVER problem. if your have window vista it actually detect some of the problems for you and let me say the AUTOMATICALLY driver download on vista is way better than downloading the driver from Nvidia website.
 
Drivers are the main suspect, but obviously not the only one. Op says he's ran a drivercleaner and reinstalled drivers.

Another suggestion would be to try a different set of drivers, an older kind like the 74's.
 
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