LordFett Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 I am running a homebrew PC on an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo with an AMD 2700+ 2.17GHz CPU. Whenever I play WoW for more then about 10 minutes (sometimes I can make it about 20) or try and convert a .tivo file to a .mpeg or my daughter plays any of her games it locks up. I have to turn the power supply off then restart it.I am running WinXP (SP1, I don't have SP2 yet because I want to get this problem worked out before I register). The system started with 2x512k RAM, fearing this was the problem I removed one same problem. Removed the other, same thing. Took a 1gb stick from my other PC that works seamlessly same problem. The fan on my Vid card died so I thought it might be this as well. So I took out this card (MegaSpeed nVidia AGP) and replaced it with an older ATI PCI card, same problem.I've checked my event log and nothing is showing up there.Could an overheating CPU be causing this? I'm thinking about picking up a new CPU but socket As aren't few and far between these days. Any help would be great.http://lordfett.com/files/DxDiag.txtThis is a link to my dxdiag. It is a bit old, I can run a newer one tonight if it will help any.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 overheating is my first guess. download a program such as everest, speedfan, or motherboard monitor. then play WoW for 5-10 min and minimize it to see ur temps. let us know whats going on, cpu temp and chipset temp. video card doenst matter at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFett Posted July 26, 2006 Author Share Posted July 26, 2006 overheating is my first guess.Hmm, I think ASUS shipped a temp monitor with this. I'll drop it on tonight.Ever notice once you start talking about a problem you start realizing fixes. I've been having this problem for months and until I started typing this overheating never slipped into my head as a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shindo_Hikaru Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 (edited) I agree, but to complement that i would go ahead and add a better heatsink and fan such as thermaltake, one that wouls support faster CPU's.Also upgrade/update all hardware and software drivers/firmware. Edited July 26, 2006 by Shindo_Hikaru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 I agree, but to complement that i would go ahead and add a better heatsink and fan such as thermaltake, one that wouls support faster CPU's.that was going to be my next post after he reported on how bad his temps were Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFett Posted July 27, 2006 Author Share Posted July 27, 2006 I installed ASUS Probe. CPU was idling at 111F. I swapped out for another heatsink/fan I had and that dropped the idle to 95-98 and 30 minutes of WoW only took it to 104.I hope this has solved the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shindo_Hikaru Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 OK, give me the full system specs as in model number and brands for your computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 well ~35C is a normal idle temp ide have to say, try playing WoW for a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shindo_Hikaru Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 Their is other related issues to AMD (yuck) and certian model or brand motherboards or other hardware related issues, which is why i am asking for the computer specs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 Run Prime95 for a few hours and watch the temperature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFett Posted July 27, 2006 Author Share Posted July 27, 2006 Their is other related issues to AMD (yuck) and certian model or brand motherboards or other hardware related issues, which is why i am asking for the computer specsMotherboard: ASUS A7N8X-E DeluxeCPU: AMD 2700+ 2.17GHzVidcard: ATI PCI 64mbI don't think it is the mobo/cpu combo (unless one of them is burning out) I ran this setup (different vidcard) for 2 years without any problem. After I swapped the fan/heatsink I started thinking about when I started having the problems and it was about the time that I put this new heatsink on. It has a case fan on it with red LEDs (my brother's chop job). I don't think the fan was cooling enough.I'm going to switch back to the "bad" fan/heatsink tonight just to see what temps look like after 15 minutes of WoW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shindo_Hikaru Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 What i am looking for is your ram model and brand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFett Posted July 27, 2006 Author Share Posted July 27, 2006 What i am looking for is your ram model and brandI'll check tonight. I doubt it is the RAM unless the board/cpu are really picky I've had 3 different chips from 3 different manufacutres in, all with the same result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 whats the new heatsink you tried? like i said 35C is a normal temp, so leave it. has it crashed since u put on the new heatsink? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shindo_Hikaru Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 Motherboard: ASUS A7N8X-E DeluxeCPU: AMD 2700+ 2.17GHzHere is the bad news, This combo is very picky, why you may ask, Complain to Nvidia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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