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From: mechphisto on 9 Jan 2008 16:39
I have a friend who recently built a new PC, and he's experiencing
this odd issue where the system will lock up and reboot itself any
time he exits from playing any decently hardware intensive game, like
"Battlefield 2" or later.

He has an AMD Athalon 64 X2,
POWERCOLOR 26XT512M/D3HDMI Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI
Express x16,
GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD Motherboard
2GB or DDR2 RAM.
Every calculator I've used says he needs 350-420 watt PSU, he has a
520 watt.

I've watched his temps via the mobo software, Speedfan, and other
programs and they never climb very high. Even in the middle of a game,
after an hour, his CPU never gets above 50, his Northbridge sometimes
gets to 60 or 65 but usually 55-60, and his video card never gets
above 55 or 58C. So I don't think it's an over heating thing.

I've run memtest, drive tests (PartitionMagic, badblocks, checkdsk,
etc), video card hardware checkers, SiS Sandra, and everything seems
to say the hardware is fine.

We tried completely formatting and reinstalling Win XP Pro. tried the
default drivers, tried Windows update drivers, and tried Catalyst
drivers, and there's no change.

He never crashes IN the games and programs, just immediately upon
exiting them. No bluescreen, just reboots and auto-chkdsk's upon
bootup.
Any ideas what I should do or look into at this point?
Thanks for any advice!
-Liam
From: Skybuck Flying on 9 Jan 2008 16:51
Look at the minidumps in the windows folder.

Use tools for windows debugging, open the minidump, follow the tutorial and
you can see some driver names their.

Check out if drivers causing problems.

Monkey could do it ;)

So you need special debugging tools download those.

Bye,
Skybuck :D


From: Craig Coope on 9 Jan 2008 18:14
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:39:48 -0800 (PST), mechphisto(a)gmail.com wrote:

>I have a friend who recently built a new PC, and he's experiencing
>this odd issue where the system will lock up and reboot itself any
>time he exits from playing any decently hardware intensive game, like
>"Battlefield 2" or later.
>
>He has an AMD Athalon 64 X2,
>POWERCOLOR 26XT512M/D3HDMI Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI
>Express x16,
>GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD Motherboard
>2GB or DDR2 RAM.
>Every calculator I've used says he needs 350-420 watt PSU, he has a
>520 watt.
>
>I've watched his temps via the mobo software, Speedfan, and other
>programs and they never climb very high. Even in the middle of a game,
>after an hour, his CPU never gets above 50, his Northbridge sometimes
>gets to 60 or 65 but usually 55-60, and his video card never gets
>above 55 or 58C. So I don't think it's an over heating thing.
>
>I've run memtest, drive tests (PartitionMagic, badblocks, checkdsk,
>etc), video card hardware checkers, SiS Sandra, and everything seems
>to say the hardware is fine.
>
>We tried completely formatting and reinstalling Win XP Pro. tried the
>default drivers, tried Windows update drivers, and tried Catalyst
>drivers, and there's no change.
>
>He never crashes IN the games and programs, just immediately upon
>exiting them. No bluescreen, just reboots and auto-chkdsk's upon
>bootup.
>Any ideas what I should do or look into at this point?
>Thanks for any advice!
>-Liam

Make sure you have all the drivers installed for the motherboard

--
The Zero ST
From: Augustus on 9 Jan 2008 19:46
> Any ideas what I should do or look into at this point?
> Thanks for any advice!
> -Liam

Look for updated m/b drivers and install all first before anything else.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2434
Given what you've done, I'd try a couple of things hardware wise. Even
thought the RAM appears to test OK, pull one stick and see if it persists.
If it does, swap it with the other stick and try with just the other. If the
issue is still there, swap out the videocard for another and see whether or
not it happens. I'd probably try the videocard first actually.


From: First of One on 10 Jan 2008 00:38
1) In Windows, go to System Properties -> Advanced tab -> Startup & Recovery
Settings button -> System Failure. Uncheck "Automatically restart".

2) Disable "VPU recover" from within Catalyst Control Center.

3) Try playing games at the same resolution and refresh rate as Windows
desktop.

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It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


<mechphisto(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:697f1e92-6159-4f2b-b7d6-41a8397f1203(a)l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>I have a friend who recently built a new PC, and he's experiencing
> this odd issue where the system will lock up and reboot itself any
> time he exits from playing any decently hardware intensive game, like
> "Battlefield 2" or later.
>
> He has an AMD Athalon 64 X2,
> POWERCOLOR 26XT512M/D3HDMI Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI
> Express x16,
> GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD Motherboard
> 2GB or DDR2 RAM.
> Every calculator I've used says he needs 350-420 watt PSU, he has a
> 520 watt.
>
> I've watched his temps via the mobo software, Speedfan, and other
> programs and they never climb very high. Even in the middle of a game,
> after an hour, his CPU never gets above 50, his Northbridge sometimes
> gets to 60 or 65 but usually 55-60, and his video card never gets
> above 55 or 58C. So I don't think it's an over heating thing.
>
> I've run memtest, drive tests (PartitionMagic, badblocks, checkdsk,
> etc), video card hardware checkers, SiS Sandra, and everything seems
> to say the hardware is fine.
>
> We tried completely formatting and reinstalling Win XP Pro. tried the
> default drivers, tried Windows update drivers, and tried Catalyst
> drivers, and there's no change.
>
> He never crashes IN the games and programs, just immediately upon
> exiting them. No bluescreen, just reboots and auto-chkdsk's upon
> bootup.
> Any ideas what I should do or look into at this point?
> Thanks for any advice!
> -Liam


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