Alright here's my dilemma. Sorry for the long chunk of text you're about to read as well... Okay here goes. I built my computer last year, right after Christmas. It was my first, and everything went smoothly...for the most part. I've been using for almost a year now, and everything has been great. It plays games maxed out, multi-tasks, etc. Within the past month, it's started to crap out on me. When I'm playing counter-strike source (the main game I play, so I don't know what it will do in others), it runs fine...except when I turn. Then, the screen gets a bit glitchy, and my frames/second drop quite a bit.
Well...I guess before you guys would even start to diagnose my problem I can provide you with a little info about my computer. I've got an AMD Athlon 4200 X2, overclocked to about 2.5 GHz (as of now). I had it overclocked at 2.7 GHz for most of that year I've owned the computer, with just the stock heatsink/fan. Probably not the best idea on my part... Anyways, I've got that fixed now. For my video card, I've got an nvidea 7800GT 256 MB (made by evga, if that helps). My hdd is just a seagate 160 GB something or other, it runs fine. I've also got a decent sound card. Now for my memory...it was the original source of my problems in my thinking. I got the blue screen of doom at the beginning of the month, and I traced the problem to my RAM. One of the modules appears to be dead, because now that I've got it removed, my computer no longer gets blue screens. My motherboard is an ASUS A8N SLI Premium.
Now that I've got that out of the way, I might also add that I reinstalled windows xp professional in the past week. The video problems are still there...and I can't figure out what the heck is wrong! I'd appreciate any and all help I can get! Thanks!
Well...I guess before you guys would even start to diagnose my problem I can provide you with a little info about my computer. I've got an AMD Athlon 4200 X2, overclocked to about 2.5 GHz (as of now). I had it overclocked at 2.7 GHz for most of that year I've owned the computer, with just the stock heatsink/fan. Probably not the best idea on my part... Anyways, I've got that fixed now. For my video card, I've got an nvidea 7800GT 256 MB (made by evga, if that helps). My hdd is just a seagate 160 GB something or other, it runs fine. I've also got a decent sound card. Now for my memory...it was the original source of my problems in my thinking. I got the blue screen of doom at the beginning of the month, and I traced the problem to my RAM. One of the modules appears to be dead, because now that I've got it removed, my computer no longer gets blue screens. My motherboard is an ASUS A8N SLI Premium.
Now that I've got that out of the way, I might also add that I reinstalled windows xp professional in the past week. The video problems are still there...and I can't figure out what the heck is wrong! I'd appreciate any and all help I can get! Thanks!
