01-06-2013, 04:13 PM
God damnit!
Gonna preface this by saying that I am absurdly frustrated at my old PC. As long as I owned it I had trouble with it, and now I've got a new throng of bullshit now that I've rejiggered it and given it to Deb. If anyone can help suggest a test or a cure, I'd really appreciate it, as I currently have a $2000 crash-box.
Here's some background:
The computer is a 3-4 year old rig; i7-920, EVGA x58 motherboard, 3x2GB DDR3-1600, and 2x GTX 460s. I had it running for a few years, then decided to do a clean install of windows to give it to Deb. I used the upgrade disc that I originally had, and my license key was accepted. Installed all of our essential programs, then noticed a problem when we tried running Resident Evil 5. Here is that problem:
After a few minutes of play, the screen would black out, the keyboard would die (backlight goes dead), and the computer appears to stop responding to all input. This happens consistently. We thought it was an overheating issue at first; the computer was in an enclosure with poor ventilation. We moved it, and saw marginal improvements, but the same problem persisted. It happens rarely in other games as well, not just Resi5. I even went so far as to reinstall win7 a second time to fix this, but it still happens. Does anyone have a clue what this could be? I tried using different graphic drivers, but to no avail. I'm going to run some stress tests and monitor the temperature to see if that's really the problem.
More information: I have validate the cache and know that it's not a problem with the game. I will be trying without SLI enabled in a few minutes to rule out that possibility.
EDIT: Wow. Temperature test hit 103/93 CELSIUS before the crash happens. This sure as hell sounds like a temperature problem, and that the crash is the card killing itself before it gets hot enough to cause permanent damage...but this was run with fans full on and in a well ventilated area. How can I stop this, and why the hell didn't it happen before, when I was using it?
EDIT2: Opened one of the GPUs to see if it was clogged with dust. It wasn't, but its thermal paste was all fucked up. I think that the last time I opened it up, I ruined the layer of thermal paste, but didn't fix it. This would explain why I had crashing after the reinstall, but not before (I cleaned the cards around when I constructed Victor). Going to reapply thermal paste.
Gonna preface this by saying that I am absurdly frustrated at my old PC. As long as I owned it I had trouble with it, and now I've got a new throng of bullshit now that I've rejiggered it and given it to Deb. If anyone can help suggest a test or a cure, I'd really appreciate it, as I currently have a $2000 crash-box.
Here's some background:
The computer is a 3-4 year old rig; i7-920, EVGA x58 motherboard, 3x2GB DDR3-1600, and 2x GTX 460s. I had it running for a few years, then decided to do a clean install of windows to give it to Deb. I used the upgrade disc that I originally had, and my license key was accepted. Installed all of our essential programs, then noticed a problem when we tried running Resident Evil 5. Here is that problem:
After a few minutes of play, the screen would black out, the keyboard would die (backlight goes dead), and the computer appears to stop responding to all input. This happens consistently. We thought it was an overheating issue at first; the computer was in an enclosure with poor ventilation. We moved it, and saw marginal improvements, but the same problem persisted. It happens rarely in other games as well, not just Resi5. I even went so far as to reinstall win7 a second time to fix this, but it still happens. Does anyone have a clue what this could be? I tried using different graphic drivers, but to no avail. I'm going to run some stress tests and monitor the temperature to see if that's really the problem.
More information: I have validate the cache and know that it's not a problem with the game. I will be trying without SLI enabled in a few minutes to rule out that possibility.
EDIT: Wow. Temperature test hit 103/93 CELSIUS before the crash happens. This sure as hell sounds like a temperature problem, and that the crash is the card killing itself before it gets hot enough to cause permanent damage...but this was run with fans full on and in a well ventilated area. How can I stop this, and why the hell didn't it happen before, when I was using it?
EDIT2: Opened one of the GPUs to see if it was clogged with dust. It wasn't, but its thermal paste was all fucked up. I think that the last time I opened it up, I ruined the layer of thermal paste, but didn't fix it. This would explain why I had crashing after the reinstall, but not before (I cleaned the cards around when I constructed Victor). Going to reapply thermal paste.