PC freeze issues

Okay, don't worry about the receive buffer, that's a minimal issue and won't cause problems which I know about. If you run Vista, it auto tunes the receive buffer, Xp it can be tweaked.

I've also got a Gigabyte mobo with onboard NIC (socket 939). My advice would really be to either borrow or buy a fast newish NIC, which has a few cool features and which you could use to test. ;)

Don't worry about the rcv buffer for now, that's nothing. You could try and set your current NIC to Full Duplex 100Mb/s and see if it is better, auto tune by the NIC makes a lot of errors some times. Just check the hardware properties of the NIC and look through it's options :p
 
have u tried different drivers?

run pcmark and 3dmark06 if it freezes your vga card is stuffed

what is your load temp while playing

do this:

go get a fan take off the side of your box put the fan on full speed and play, sounds like something is overheating to me

i doubt its your network card
 
i also suspected it could be overheating, but what made me move away from that idea is that my pc only freezes while playing online I have no problems playing offline....

i got a fan blowing onto the gfx card, besides its own fan. Could that perhaps be disrupting the airflow?

I will try another network card and see what happens...

thanks for your guys help again, i appreciate it
 
yea remember one thing, is that fan blowing onto your card blowing hot or cold air?

rather turn the fans off and try a huge fan, a normal fan used in summer

maybe offline does not work your system as much as online
 
ok, just to make sure there aint no confusion, the fan i am using is a proper PC fan (2 small fans on 1 card) slotted next to the gfx card. I got 2 10cm fans at the front of the case and also a bigger one at the back for extraction
 
game crashed again..
quickest temps i could get after re-start (maybe 1 min and a bit) are the following:

CPU at 35 deg
GFX GPU at 67 deg
system temp at 33deg

also. at the time according to my G15 keyboard,
CPU was running at 84%, ram about 40% occupancy rate
 
ya but those temps are after the reboot, load is not that heavy

try get temps during gaming

alt tab out the game and take a reading

did you run pcmark and 3dmark? did it pass?
 
mm... something interesting happened now...

i downloaded PC wizzard 2007, it shows everything about your comp there, and also speedfan.. They both said my mainboard was at 60degrees... rest of the temps were fine

I restarted my comp, played quake wars demo for about an hour no probs, and then checked, and they said my mainboard was at 45degrees...

could that have been the prob?? dont know how the mainboard got to dec temp by itself, but hey?
 
ajax do pcmark and 3dmark tests man

if you pass 3dmark06 your gpu is fine
pcmark tests most of your computer

im not sure how a program would measure your board's temp as im sure the board is not consistent

i mean some part of the board wil be hotter than other part, i would not trust that
 
i ran pcmark05 and 3dmark06, and my comp "passed" both tests..

dont know if u want me to post the scores??

i tried to play last night again but the thing froze...again
 
yip.. have reloaded XP.. reformatted and lost a few games in the process...

I think i am gonna try a new network card, cause thats the only thing i think it could possibly be now...

dont know if the ADSL line would cause a game to freeze instead of just disconnecting?
 
i eventually got a new network card... and guess what.. it didnt help....

it froze 10 seconds into the game... i then took the sound card out, and it lasted longer (with no sound at all), but froze after 35mins....
 
still have not tried a different hdd eh?

replace your mobo then your ram then your cpu, basically you must now start replacing everything man
 
yeah... thats what i was starting to think as well... and i was hoping that my setup would have lasted me atleast another year before i had to upgrade...

any suggestions on where to take my pc in cape town so they could troubleshoot and not rip me off while upgrading at the same time??
 
What kind of motherboard & CPU (actually all your hardware, down to the case type you have would be useful) do you have and what drivers are you using for the motherboard?

Secondly perhaps you could put the logging option on in speed fan next time you play a game that usually hangs, just to be sure it's not temperatures. The logging option saves the data to the hard-drive immediately so it should be possible to see your temps juts before the crash. Haven't used speed fan in ages (Everest Ultimate is the way to go ;) ) but I can remember it had a logging option, if you have Everest use that instead, and just select everything for logging (can be snatched of the news-servers, about 8MB).

Did the problems start recently or is it a new PC?
 
Mainboard : Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 rev 1.0, latest drivers
Chipset : Intel P965
Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2400 MHz
Physical Memory : 3072 MB (2x512Mb Corsair XMS2, 2 x 1gig Mushkin) both DDR2-800
Video Card : ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1950XTX
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hard Disk : ST3320620AS (320 GB)
Hard Disk : WDC (200 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10N SCSI CdRom Device
DVD-Rom Drive : BI5465M PEB902S SCSI CdRom Device
Monitor Type : LG Electronics L226W - 22 inches
Network Card : Realtek Semiconductor RT8139 (A/B/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
DirectX : Version 9.0c (May 2007)
Case: Antec Solo (i think)

i have had the pc since last year oct, problems started about month and a half back.. initially with BF2142, then the rest of the games (also Quake Wars ET). I have now set speedfan to log (thought i did, but i didn't) and i will see what it says.. How do i know what temp setting is for what? i can see the CPU core temps, but what would temp1 and temp2 represent?

dont think its my directx file, cause i just installed it again when i installed Quake wars ET.. i played the same game now offline for 1hour 15 mins, but it froze earlier after firat 10 seconds, then 30 mins...
 
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