waterinthefuel
New Member
Ok, I'm going to try to start from the beginning with this.
I built this computer, a fairly mack daddy gaming machine, for Christmas, but I did it a bit early to take advantage of some great shipping deals. Anyway, for about a month this computer worked great minus a few CTD errors playing Arma. Then when I would play Arma I would get CTD type errors all the time. I fought those and fought those.....and then it would start to freeze at random, whether or not I was in a game or not. For a while, it would stay frozen and I had to reboot manually. Then, when I'd try to reboot, it would get to the MSI splashscreen, and then it would just stay there. Then later on, it would freeze about every 10 seconds or so, but unlock itself after about 3 or 4 seconds. This got really annoying so finally I got some ideas from other online forums and they said to remove 3 of your 4 sticks of RAM. Well, I did and the computer smoothed out great. I played Arma for a little while with no issues. Fast forward 5 days to this afternoon. I decide to switch out to my second stick and try it. It works fine as did the other, but with Arma, it would play for a minute or two, and then the entire computer would turn itself off!!!!!
I was like holy crap!! So I took out that stick and marked it with a "?" not knowing what had happened. I put in the third stick, it did the same thing. I put BACK in the first stick that Arma played on fine the first time (although I didn't stay on it long) and yet again, after a few minutes, the computer turned itself off. I put in the 4th stick and again, smooth for browsing the internet, but for Arma, a full computer shutdown within a minute or two. Every time the computer shut down, I would have to take the side of the case off and press and hold the "CMOS CLR" button on the motherboard to clear the CMOS. For some reason, the CMOS was getting corrupted. MSI (the motherboard people) said that the video card can corrupt the CMOS and people have suspected a dud video card since my initial Arma CTD errors a month ago.
I was told by the motherboard tech support that it's my video card, and I already called the video card people and told them about the screen freezes and Arma CTD errors and I sent them my information and whatnot, and I haven't heard back, I was supposed to get another card in the mail from when the screen freezes would occur, well that didn't happen. Anyone know why galaxy's company KFA2, no longer replies to my phone messages or emails??
Anyway, I've tried every stick of RAM individually and I have problems, and I've tried them all together and I have different problems. I am at a loss to know what to do. Nothing is overheating, all drivers are up to date, and noone seems to be able to figure out why my computer keeps doing this!!!!
Please someone help!!!
I built this computer, a fairly mack daddy gaming machine, for Christmas, but I did it a bit early to take advantage of some great shipping deals. Anyway, for about a month this computer worked great minus a few CTD errors playing Arma. Then when I would play Arma I would get CTD type errors all the time. I fought those and fought those.....and then it would start to freeze at random, whether or not I was in a game or not. For a while, it would stay frozen and I had to reboot manually. Then, when I'd try to reboot, it would get to the MSI splashscreen, and then it would just stay there. Then later on, it would freeze about every 10 seconds or so, but unlock itself after about 3 or 4 seconds. This got really annoying so finally I got some ideas from other online forums and they said to remove 3 of your 4 sticks of RAM. Well, I did and the computer smoothed out great. I played Arma for a little while with no issues. Fast forward 5 days to this afternoon. I decide to switch out to my second stick and try it. It works fine as did the other, but with Arma, it would play for a minute or two, and then the entire computer would turn itself off!!!!!
I was like holy crap!! So I took out that stick and marked it with a "?" not knowing what had happened. I put in the third stick, it did the same thing. I put BACK in the first stick that Arma played on fine the first time (although I didn't stay on it long) and yet again, after a few minutes, the computer turned itself off. I put in the 4th stick and again, smooth for browsing the internet, but for Arma, a full computer shutdown within a minute or two. Every time the computer shut down, I would have to take the side of the case off and press and hold the "CMOS CLR" button on the motherboard to clear the CMOS. For some reason, the CMOS was getting corrupted. MSI (the motherboard people) said that the video card can corrupt the CMOS and people have suspected a dud video card since my initial Arma CTD errors a month ago.I was told by the motherboard tech support that it's my video card, and I already called the video card people and told them about the screen freezes and Arma CTD errors and I sent them my information and whatnot, and I haven't heard back, I was supposed to get another card in the mail from when the screen freezes would occur, well that didn't happen. Anyone know why galaxy's company KFA2, no longer replies to my phone messages or emails??
Anyway, I've tried every stick of RAM individually and I have problems, and I've tried them all together and I have different problems. I am at a loss to know what to do. Nothing is overheating, all drivers are up to date, and noone seems to be able to figure out why my computer keeps doing this!!!!
Please someone help!!!
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