sepheroth479 Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Could be from me trying to o/c my pc awhile back but idk.. Some games (only 2 so far) willl randomly freeze up my computer i cannot do anything no alt tabbing only solution is to restart my pc. Or my monitor will go black and my pc will immediatly reboot and i see my pretty bios splash yay. This happens randomly mostly after an hour or 2 from playing (Sometimes less) Anyone else have this problem.I can play WoW hours on end with no crashing though :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonger Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 sounds a little like your power supply is overtaxed. and WOW rarely taxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepheroth479 Posted October 21, 2010 Author Share Posted October 21, 2010 sounds a little like your power supply is overtaxed. and WOW rarely taxes. thanks its a 850psu and this still happens when im at my stock speeds sometimes maybe i hurt my hardware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Make sure your fans are all working, and the air channels are not clogged with dust. Overheating can cause this. Anything that pulls the +5 volt supply down will cause a spontaneous reboot. This is almost always a hardware issue. A failing component on anything can cause this - Motherboard, video card, Ram or any other piece of hardware, including anything plugged into an external port - such as a USB add on. Here is a link to a site with many different diagnostic tools - some free, some not. I would try several of the free ones to see if it can track down the problem. But First!! Be sure to back up any important files that you don't want to lose before starting any testing. http://majorgeeks.com/downloads7.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepheroth479 Posted October 21, 2010 Author Share Posted October 21, 2010 Make sure your fans are all working, and the air channels are not clogged with dust. Overheating can cause this. Anything that pulls the +5 volt supply down will cause a spontaneous reboot. This is almost always a hardware issue. A failing component on anything can cause this - Motherboard, video card, Ram or any other piece of hardware, including anything plugged into an external port - such as a USB add on. Here is a link to a site with many different diagnostic tools - some free, some not. I would try several of the free ones to see if it can track down the problem. But First!! Be sure to back up any important files that you don't want to lose before starting any testing. http://majorgeeks.com/downloads7.html Thanks. I keep my pc very clean (I use a leaf blower to clean mine hehe) Im thinking i have harware issues. Hmmm i know how to correctly over clock now but when i began i didnt quite know what i was doing. i didnt however do anything extremely stupid. Also airways are clean and all my fans work when idle my temps are like 49 and under and spike to around 55ish im not positive on whether or not this has always been like this or not. But im considering building my own pc for this christmas i got my two ati hd 5870's and my 6gigs of ram and my 1 terabyte of memory and thats all i need so i shouldnt have too much to spend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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