bsod i hear my HDs spinning up after restart

[riiaku]

i played act of war for 3 hours and then my computer bsod, i hear my hd's spinning up after restart one by one, are my hard drives slowly dying or is the problem something else? i ran 35 hours memtest each stick and prime 95 for 8 hours as well as superpi on the 32m test and it ran fine

[jonnyGURU]

Could be a defective motherboard.

[jmke]

or PSU acting up, or driver issue, or... *insert many random hw bits*

list all your hardware specs & driver versions, are you using the latest? does the crash only happen with Act of War ?

[jonnyGURU]

He already did in another thread.

He has a "new problem" and feels that he should start a new thread. ;)

[jmke]

ow, woops, didn't know; use the force luke! (thread merge) ;)

[riiaku]

or PSU acting up, or driver issue, or... *insert many random hw bits*

list all your hardware specs & driver versions, are you using the latest? does the crash only happen with Act of War ?

so far i only get the basod now in act of war but its getting worse, the amount of time that i play each game b4 it crashes is getting shorter and shorter, so now it bsods within 10 min of play.

[jmke]

only in that game?

[riiaku]

only in that game?

so far yeah, i used to have bsods in any game but i found out one of my ram chips were screwed up so i sent them in and got them replaced, and ran 35 hour memtest each chip in the same dimm, and both were fine, then i ran act of war high treason and it never crashed, i played for 4 hours at a time and no crashes then the next time i played for 3 hours i finally got a restart, then the next time i played for 2 and a half hours i got a bsod, my first one, then in 1 hour i got another bsod, now in 10 min i get one bsod after another. its insane. ive tried flatout 2 and no problems but those are the two games i play primarily right now. ill try flatout 2:wall: Every time its the same error, ati3duag.dll, never anything else. could it be the video card?

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[riiaku]

i played the game flatout 2 for a couple hours and no bsods, but i cant run act of war now without getting a bsod every 5-10 min. my previous system had the same harddrives in use that i use now in this system, set up the same way raid 0, and i had the same type of error, always relating to the video card. and yet both video cards are different, I had an AGP BFG 6800GT and i got the nv4_disp.dll error 0x7e and 0x50, and now i have the Sapphire Radeon x1900 XT 256mb and it gives me the ati3duag.dll error 0x7e and 0x50. A friend of mine thinks its the harddrives because it is the only thing i carried over into my new system. cant be a cooling problem either cause i have a very cold room, 2x 120mm fans and 2x 80mm fans, so what can it be? I think it might be the harddrives too. if not that then definitly the motherboard. He says because the error keeps pointing to the same thing a video card problem. I'm going to see if i can get a harddrive and install xp on it and see if that works. what do you guys think? i wish ud keep helping me on this.

[spaceman]

Just try and replace your hard drive and see if it helps=)
Did you even try and reformat that drive first? also you can always download soem game demos from the net and play around with those and see if you get this bsod. Im not familiar with that game but i can tell you that when i use to play daoc i use to get all kinds of problems like system restarts , lock ups , bsod etc.... and it was the game, just a terrible game engine.
Did you uninstall the antivirus and all the other stuff you have running on your computer?

PS Like jonny told you replace your MB wile you can at least if it does it again you know its not a MB problem, then change your hard drive and if it does it again then it means you got some stuff running on your system thats screwing it up.
Did you try and update your bios? did you change any setting in your bios? are you overcloacking?

[riiaku]

ok ill try the harddrive thing first, but i need a computer for this month and next cause of school. but if the harddrive thing doesnt fix it then yeah ill replace the board, im thinking of gettin rid of my x1900 xt and buying a 7900 GTO. Another friend of mine that had a 9700 told me that he had the exact same problems im having, and he changed out his ATI card and got a 6800 ultra and now no more crashes. so i dont know. but ill definitly do as you said and try it. i did do a fresh format and all.

[riiaku]

this is weird, i play cs source for like 6 hours and no bsods or crashes, i play any other game for hours and hours and no crashing yet with actofwar it crashes, i beat teh game finally so no need to go back and play but i think ur right it must be the game engine. Im going to keep running tests and see how it goes, i hear GRAW is hell on ur system so ill try it out and come back with info, if it doesnt work im going to buy a raptor 150 and install it and see how it runs, if its all good ill refurbish my other 2 harddrives, im not going to run raid 0 anymore because i hear its not at all what its cracked up to be.

[riiaku]

yeah its definetly the game, i had a bsod after i installed my audigy 2zs back in but that was because of a bad network driver, and i replaced it and never again got a bsod. but other than that ive been playing games for the past 9 hours and no bsods at all. its definitly the game. its gotta be. I"m going to continue running tests, but if i get another bsod ill definitly buy another harddrive and test it on that after that ill replace the motherboard if that doesnt work, ill come back here when ive done those 2 things ok, thank you very much for your help.

[spaceman]

Usually when i reformat my pc i have a certain way of doing it, i remeber reading this on a forum.
For example i remove the audio card and my ethernet card if i have one , then i reformat so i can later install this 2 one by one. Make sure you install your chipset driver first thing after a clean reformat , followed by my graphic card driver and then audio card drivers.
Better to do it slowly and one piece at a time then everything at the same time , it might cause system conflicts.
Also unless you really need it and browse the internet a lot , i would stay away from antivirus softwares if you want your machine to run smooth, but thats just me=)
I browse only certain sites that i know im safe on and i stay away from unkown links and downloads.

[Slartibartfast]

Heh, I'm really bad with driver reinstalls. I install every single one and then hit them all at once with a single reboot :D