Complete system crash when playing

[thunderwolf86]

this has been going on for quite a while now, but its few and far between until recently. mostly its CTDs which im pretty sure are mod related although i can never seem to find any conflicts. lately though its been happening a lot more, today i had one, waited an hour, then launched the game and it lasted 5 minuites till it crashed the whole system again. i had started a new game and updated Amazing Follower Tweaks before that, which on a side note also isnt working yet but i think it was a bad upload or something im still playing around to see what might be wrong with that.

if it will help ill post my specs here

 

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333)

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: System manufacturer

System Model: System Product Name

BIOS: BIOS Date: 04/14/10 17:53:51 Ver: 09.06

Processor: AMD Athlon II X2 260 Processor (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz

Memory: 4096MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 3328MB RAM

Page File: 1902MB used, 4750MB available

Windows Dir: C:\Windows

DirectX Version: DirectX 11

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

User DPI Setting: Using System DPI

System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode

 

thanks

[thunderwolf86]

UMMM oookkk why did it post my topic 4 times???? i only clicked post once, if you're seeing this im really sorry

Fixed

Bben46

 

EDIT: thanks Bben46, thought i was going to get soo much hate.

Edited January 24, 2013 by thunderwolf86

[Georgiegril]

Hi,

 

Looks to me like your system is an older one? (Can't tell also but maybe a laptop?)

Skyrim takes a lot of juice, and complete system crashes could be due to either overtaxing your power supply, or having a PSU that is failing.

If your PSU is on the way out, playing something like Skyrim might be the first place it shows up, but it would eventually just die on you altogether. Could also be things like loose connections, or overheating of your CPU (typically the GPU overheating would cause a shutdown of the program, but if the CPU is overheating often the entire system shuts down in an effort to avoid permanent damage.)

Have you run any kind of benchmarks program (like CPU-Z) to test the perfromance of your hardware while in game, and maybe run a stress test?

[thunderwolf86]

honestly iv never tried anything like that, im far from being the smartest person with computers, i had to look up how to find my specs for this post. but im not opposed to giving CPU-Z a shot. i do know that when im playing games like skyrim, bf3, and any other cpu hogs i do need another big external fan right beside the tower along with the 2 internal fans whereas something like iuo minecraft not nesseccary at all. iv always assumed overheating was part of the problem but up until recently its been relatively contained because of that fan, without it it would get very warm and crash within minuites of playing those games. i really hope the problem isnt the PSU because that would be a nightmare but worth looking into.

oh and no its not a laptop, tower, modem, mouse, keyboard, scott pilgrim mouse pad, the works.

[Georgiegril]

What drivers/Graphics card do you have?

Have you updated to the latest drivers (and if you have NVidia drivers, have you manually removed the old drivers and installed the new ones, rather than using the Windows driver update-- if you have not, your temp problems could be related to a corrupt driver installation--read this EVGA post for more info.

Edit: LOL on the mouse pad! Nice touch!

[bben46]

Help for an overheating computer.

http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Cleaning_your_computer

[thunderwolf86]

the graphics card i have is ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series, at least thats what the DxDiag had to say. as for the drivers i honestly dont know, drivers are one of pc aspects that i dont understand in the slightest. the one thing i do know is that when i bought bf3 i couldnt play that for a month or so, it wasnt installed properally i think. a friend came out and one of the things he did to get it to work was downgraded one of the drivers, he said that that game required a certain driver and i had upgraded from that. its currently set to 11.7 whatever that means. anyway after that and a bit more fiddling the game worked fine and still does, as did skyrim and everything else. mouse pad, couldnt resist.

 

bben46, as for cleaning the beast, i generally use a can of concentrated air, it seems to do the trick, maybe i should be more thurough?