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Games Crashing
Newly built system:
Antec TX640B w/SmartPower 2.0 400w A64 3200+ 939 (Win) Chaintech VNF4 Ultra MOBO 2x512 Corsair TwinX1024-3200C2PT WD IDE 40GB 8mb HDD Sony DVD/CD-RW Sapphire X800GTO WinXP Home SP1a Using AC97 3.78 onboard sound CAT 5.10 with Control Panel (.net framework is not installed) Routine install of WinXP using the VNF4 Ultra's included (3.6) chipset drivers but did not install NVfirewall, NVnetworks (due to anguish with them elsewhere). Have installed my usual programs, Firefox browser, and have run everything I ever run on our home PC's fast and flawless but running AquaMark3 I either get a freeze up at the very end where the results screen should appear or 3/4 of the way thru I get an error: [Code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access. Addr: 0x0fea266a.] 3dMark2003 will run awesome almost all of the way thru and then crash and reboot. Ditto for 3dMark2005. Doom 3 runs full benchmark's reliably at default settings and scores where it should for this setup. I can usually only run the first level or two of the game though, before it suddenly crashes to the desktop. Half-Life 2 runs awesome - for about 5 minutes. UT2004 about one full level. RMA'd the X800GTO (it did reach 78c temps I noticed) and the replacement never seems to go above 70.3c but the exact same problem persists. I have tried the CAT 5.9 drivers and older AC97 drivers (3.54 and 3.77) - using DriverCleaner to clean up scraps in between. No change. DxDIAG (9.0c) says all is well. The MOBO had auto set-up the memory timings at 2.5-4-2-8 and I have changed these to 2.5-3-3-6 as specified for the RAM I'm using but nothing noticeable has occured. Mem testing reveals no errors. SiSoft Sandra will run a full benchmark and then at the very end of it, crash and reboot. Everything runs fast, looks great - UT 2004 (and the other games and benchmarks too for that matter) run amazingly smooth and fast, but then suddenly crash out. UT displays a variety of errors when it crashes but the first referenced a sound issue. Ideas? |
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2x512 Corsair TwinX1024-3200C2PT
Sounds like RAM problem. The AMD64 is very touchy about RAM. http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/xms.html The RAM is marginal at rated speed so has to be over Volted (2.75 V) to work properly per Corsair specs. Many motherboards cannot get to this Voltage. Slow the RAM frequency to a more reasonable speed and increase Voltage and see what happens. I would RMA the RAM and only buy RAM rated to work a stock Voltages. -Kent |
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Kent_Diego wrote:
2x512 Corsair TwinX1024-3200C2PT Sounds like RAM problem. The AMD64 is very touchy about RAM. http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/xms.html The RAM is marginal at rated speed so has to be over Volted (2.75 V) to work properly per Corsair specs. Many motherboards cannot get to this Voltage. Slow the RAM frequency to a more reasonable speed and increase Voltage and see what happens. I would RMA the RAM and only buy RAM rated to work a stock Voltages. -Kent Thanks. I've run 24 hrs memory testing OK. Upped the voltage to 2.75, returned to the original timings and ran memory test all night. No errors and the "end of the benchmark crashes" still occur. The CPU runs at 28-31c. The system runs at 34-37c. The GPU runs at 45c and never seen it pass 70c. Nothing has ever been OC'd on this system. Benchmarks (2003, 2005, Aqua3) run through the whole thing fantastic - smooth fast frame rates and then when they finish and are about to load the results screen, they freeze. SiSoft runs an entire benchmark, or even the full system analysis program, to completion, and then freezes on the "results" screen. I had it save the results to text the second run and the only thing to mention was CPU vcore lower than spec. Checked it with CPUID and it was 1.374v so changed it from "default" to 1.4v in BIOS and now it shows 1.392v which I remember from reviews of the MOBO to be normal. Didn't help. Reinstalled Windows XP, chipset drivers, video and sound drivers, gone through it all over again - same deal. In games, you run a whole map fantastic and then upon transition to a new map or something it freezes. I can run MPEG's full screen without issue. |
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Id say your problem is a heat issue(which really is only an opinion). I'd
recommend you increase the airflow in your case by adding additional fans. I also notice that you dont have '.net framework' installed. I believe that you need that installed to use the ati catalyst drivers(5.10). It might be reaseon your games are unstable. Also defragment your hard drives aften and check and remove spyware. It might help. ranger wrote: Newly built system: Antec TX640B w/SmartPower 2.0 400w A64 3200+ 939 (Win) Chaintech VNF4 Ultra MOBO 2x512 Corsair TwinX1024-3200C2PT WD IDE 40GB 8mb HDD Sony DVD/CD-RW Sapphire X800GTO WinXP Home SP1a Using AC97 3.78 onboard sound CAT 5.10 with Control Panel (.net framework is not installed) Routine install of WinXP using the VNF4 Ultra's included (3.6) chipset drivers but did not install NVfirewall, NVnetworks (due to anguish with them elsewhere). Have installed my usual programs, Firefox browser, and have run everything I ever run on our home PC's fast and flawless but running AquaMark3 I either get a freeze up at the very end where the results screen should appear or 3/4 of the way thru I get an error: [Code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access. Addr: 0x0fea266a.] 3dMark2003 will run awesome almost all of the way thru and then crash and reboot. Ditto for 3dMark2005. Doom 3 runs full benchmark's reliably at default settings and scores where it should for this setup. I can usually only run the first level or two of the game though, before it suddenly crashes to the desktop. Half-Life 2 runs awesome - for about 5 minutes. UT2004 about one full level. RMA'd the X800GTO (it did reach 78c temps I noticed) and the replacement never seems to go above 70.3c but the exact same problem persists. I have tried the CAT 5.9 drivers and older AC97 drivers (3.54 and 3.77) - using DriverCleaner to clean up scraps in between. No change. DxDIAG (9.0c) says all is well. The MOBO had auto set-up the memory timings at 2.5-4-2-8 and I have changed these to 2.5-3-3-6 as specified for the RAM I'm using but nothing noticeable has occured. Mem testing reveals no errors. SiSoft Sandra will run a full benchmark and then at the very end of it, crash and reboot. Everything runs fast, looks great - UT 2004 (and the other games and benchmarks too for that matter) run amazingly smooth and fast, but then suddenly crash out. UT displays a variety of errors when it crashes but the first referenced a sound issue. Ideas? |
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:17:22 -0500, Varun Chawla
wrote: Id say your problem is a heat issue(which really is only an opinion). I'd recommend you increase the airflow in your case by adding additional fans. I also notice that you dont have '.net framework' installed. I believe that you need that installed to use the ati catalyst drivers(5.10). It might be reaseon your games are unstable. Also defragment your hard drives aften and check and remove spyware. It might help. 5.10 does have a control panel version, so don't install .net S*** ranger wrote: Newly built system: Antec TX640B w/SmartPower 2.0 400w A64 3200+ 939 (Win) Chaintech VNF4 Ultra MOBO 2x512 Corsair TwinX1024-3200C2PT WD IDE 40GB 8mb HDD Sony DVD/CD-RW Sapphire X800GTO WinXP Home SP1a Using AC97 3.78 onboard sound CAT 5.10 with Control Panel (.net framework is not installed) Routine install of WinXP using the VNF4 Ultra's included (3.6) chipset drivers but did not install NVfirewall, NVnetworks (due to anguish with them elsewhere). Have installed my usual programs, Firefox browser, and have run everything I ever run on our home PC's fast and flawless but running AquaMark3 I either get a freeze up at the very end where the results screen should appear or 3/4 of the way thru I get an error: [Code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access. Addr: 0x0fea266a.] 3dMark2003 will run awesome almost all of the way thru and then crash and reboot. Ditto for 3dMark2005. Doom 3 runs full benchmark's reliably at default settings and scores where it should for this setup. I can usually only run the first level or two of the game though, before it suddenly crashes to the desktop. Half-Life 2 runs awesome - for about 5 minutes. UT2004 about one full level. RMA'd the X800GTO (it did reach 78c temps I noticed) and the replacement never seems to go above 70.3c but the exact same problem persists. I have tried the CAT 5.9 drivers and older AC97 drivers (3.54 and 3.77) - using DriverCleaner to clean up scraps in between. No change. DxDIAG (9.0c) says all is well. The MOBO had auto set-up the memory timings at 2.5-4-2-8 and I have changed these to 2.5-3-3-6 as specified for the RAM I'm using but nothing noticeable has occured. Mem testing reveals no errors. SiSoft Sandra will run a full benchmark and then at the very end of it, crash and reboot. Everything runs fast, looks great - UT 2004 (and the other games and benchmarks too for that matter) run amazingly smooth and fast, but then suddenly crash out. UT displays a variety of errors when it crashes but the first referenced a sound issue. Ideas? |
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