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Posted by nooba on Thu Apr 28th at 6:54am 2005

While playing Half-life 2 Deatchmatch after about 30 mins (sometimes longer... sometimes shorter...) my computer freezes... This has happened before, but I fixed the problem by getting the mobo replaced (was faulty) now everything has been good until a few days ago when some games have been freezing (HL2DM, Operation Flashpoint, Hammer <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">, etc..). I have tried different drivers, different ram, different video card, different cpu, different cpu fan...

Specs: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.0ghz, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 128mb, some epox mobo smiley, 512mb ddr400

Any help much appreciated. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Andrei on Thu Apr 28th at 7:03am 2005

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While playing Half-life 2 Deatchmatch after about 30 mins (sometimes longer... sometimes shorter...) my computer freezes... This has happened before, but I fixed the problem by getting the mobo replaced (was faulty) now everything has been good until a few days ago when some games have been freezing (HL2DM, Operation Flashpoint, Hammer , etc..). I have tried different drivers, different ram, different video card, different cpu, different cpu fan...

Specs: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.0ghz, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 128mb, some epox mobo smiley, 512mb ddr400

Any help much appreciated.


I've got about the same system config. as you do (except for a geforce 5200fx 128mb) and the very same games keep crashing on my machine aswell; especially Flashpoint, which freezez, I press ctrl+alt+del a couple of times, it unfreezes for a minute and then freezes back permanently. I've managed to link the problems to the video card driver. I assume you've just updated your video card driver just like I did. That will learn us to buy any more nvidia products.
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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Apr 28th at 7:10am 2005

My Radeon cards have never failed to deliver when running HL2.

I do not push them by running at a higher level than they preset themselves so I am unsure if they could be made to fail.

My old machine, a P4 1.8 with 512 pc2100 ram and a 9000ati 64 meg card has run HL2 virtually all day before with no issues.

My new PC, has no trouble at all.

sounds to me like you have a heat issue, only because i am hesitant to blame nVidia.. that company has always delivered for me, before i bought my 9000. nVidia has never failed me either. :/

I do however prefer ATI now.

check for dust.

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Posted by nooba on Thu Apr 28th at 7:31am 2005

Andrei: Yep, upgraded my video card drivers but went back to the older ones because the newer ones were worse.. :S

Orph: Don't think it is a heat issue because my CPU temp hovers around 40-45C. Checked for dust.. a damn lot there too.. got rid of it and still same problems... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">




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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Apr 28th at 7:36am 2005

the card could still be overheating. if the dust was thick enough to cause damage to the cooling fan that cooled the card. the cpu is not the only culprit when it comes to locking up your pc.

see if you have a temp monitor for the card.

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Posted by SpiKeRs on Thu Apr 28th at 7:38am 2005

On my old comp, it started to freeze up quite a lot and the graphics would go all crazy, particularly if I was running games and it would get worser the longer the comp was on. The gfx card fan was full of dust and had pretty much stopped spinning. I think it had probs overheated and gone bust because even after cleaning it out the problem remained till I replaced it with a new gfx card.

This probs wont explain your problem, but I thought I would just mention it because it seemed to cause similar probs to what you describe.





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