Hangs in games w/ P8Z68-V/GEN3
Last month I built a new machine with a P8Z68-V/GEN3, running an Intel i5
2500K and 16G of Corsair Vengeance RAM. The video card is an Asus GeForce GTX 560 DirectCU, and I've got a DLink wifi card in for network. Driving the thing is an Enermax 625W Liberty PSU, and Windows 7 (64 bit, obviously) for an OS. Overall, it's a pretty basic setup, but I'm having crash after crash. It almost always happens when I'm playing graphic-intensive games, usually Team Fortress 2 or Lord of the Rings Online. Oddly, it *doesn't* seem to happen as often in Skyrim, although it does happen. I've also had it hang once while playing a Youtube video in Chrome. The crashes manifest as the video/graphics freezing, and the sound will stutter. This is usually when I'd hit the reset button on the machine. However, I've noticed that if I leave the machine alone - stuttering sound and all - it will *sometimes* recover. The currently running game will close, and I'll be busted out to the desktop. On the Youtube occasion, the browser remained running but the video area turned green. Does that sound like the video driver crashing? I'm using the latest nVidia WHQL drivers. I've run memtest86+ extensively, and the RAM seems to check out fine. The PSU has been solid (I carried it over from my old machine) and I've got it plugged into a UPS; with a single video card (no SLI) and only running a single 1TB disk I'd think 625W would be enough. I'm starting to lean toward the video card being at fault, but the motherboard is newer and the problems started manifesting themselves with the new machine. Tonight I might try re-arranging the guts to put the 560GTX in a different PCIe slot, just to see if it makes a difference. Anyone have any other suggestions? It's getting frustrating... I average one crash per night, after which I'm *usually* fine for the rest of the evening, but last night I had two crashes in a row... which is a problem, because I'm frequently main tank in LOTRO. :) -- Brandon Hume - hume - BOFH.Ca, http://WWW.BOFH.Ca/ |
Hangs in games w/ P8Z68-V/GEN3
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Hangs in games w/ P8Z68-V/GEN3
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