PC problems, would be glad for any suggestions.

[Tight]

Ok. so i did it. baught a new rigg.

Spec.
MOBO - ASUS M3A32-MVP
AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2,21Ghz
700W PSU
3gig Ram Kingston.
GForce 8800GT.
Samsung 24" LCD.
Vista 32bit SP1.

I dont know what ells is important info.
Anyway here is my problem.

When starting WOW it runs for 3 sec - 20 min. then BLAM! like pulling out the power plug. no difference if i run 1 or 4 instances. No blue screen, i even checkt the box in windows to provide a blue screen. did not work. temp on CPU is 42C constantly. i even tried a 1000W PSU. same thing happens. I have run memory tests, telling me nothing is wrong with the ram memory. I have tried taking out 1 memory stick and switching. same thing over and over again. tried updating all the drivers including bios. no change at all.
Last night i tried Assassins Creed, got about 1h of game play. then BLAM! same thing again.

Anyone have any idee what is going on?? GFX Card that is causing this?
I am running out of idees right now. suggestions are very wellcome.

//Sebastian.

[X2Guy]

I would open up the side of your box and make sure all fans are working. Make sure all fans are spinning. Check the fan on your GPU make sure its running, and that the power cable is plugged into it. Looks like you are having a heat problem and your computer is shutting off. Check and make sure the switch on the back of the Power Supply is set to the correct Voltage for your area.

[Tight]

Yes everything is spinning.. one funny thing though. as i remember on my old system. should i not have some sort of fan control in the NVIDIA System Tools? maybe i need to install the driver in safe mode. been reading about other people having trubble getting averything to work under vista. I dont know. :S

[Tight]

hmm.. just noticed something.... i cant find GPU temp anywere or any fan control for that matter... starting to think that the guy at the computer dealer did a really bad job putting this together. should there be any other cables then the extra power cable connected to the card??

[X2Guy]

Yeah just 1 cable to the card.

I would go to nvida's site and download the driver package(vista32 bit) from them dont let windows update install the driver.

Unistall your graphic driver from control panel, resart, install new driver from Nvidia.

You should now have the Nvidia control Panel.

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hmm still no Fan control or temp indicator.. :S

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hmm Riva Tuner indicates my GPU has 0 in temp.. could it be so simple that my GFX card is faulty? is there any test programs to use for this?

[X2Guy]

I think the program from Nvida is called Nview cant tell u for sure being im at work.

Ok scratch that. lol

In the Nvida control panel choose advanced view now you should see the options for fan and temp

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no nothing even close to fan control or temp.. :(

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i get a error box with the following headline when trying to acess the system information tab . "nvdisps" and a red mark with a X on it. seams something is missing..

[Kissell13]

Definately sounds like a heat issue to me. I had a similar issue with a gpu that had gotten a bunch of dust up in the fan intake. I could play for a bit, then bam pc resets.

[Tight]

well. could be heat. but everything is 6 days old.
the fact that i dont have any fan control or a way of monitoring the temp on the GFX card "not with Nvidias Ntunes or with Riva tuner" would suggest that its probably related to cooling the card.
maybe i should try to get another GFX card to see if i have the same problem. maybe its the motherboard. i dont know. but it would rule out one or another.
could it be a good idee to have the same brand on both mobo and GFX card? my mobo is ASUS so maybe i should try a ASUS gfx card as well?
ATI instead of nvidia?

//Sebastian

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ok here is a weird turn. I just installed RS vegas 2.. everything maxed out. 2 hours of game play not 1 crash. :S starting wow = death in less then 5 min.

[Dawnstone]

My roommate had a similar problem with a new computer he bought. The issue was the power supply. I'd recommend taking any other power supply that you know works (or buy off the shelf) and try it - we had a old spare one laying around and popped it in. OR put your 'buggy' power supply in another computer and see if that PC crashes instead.

[Tight]

yes i will try that. this is very anoing.. :S

[Tight]

hmm ok. ok i used my friends 1000w psu. no change. however, Nvidia Control Panel dont recognize my mobo. with my 700w or my friends 1000w psu. my processor shows up, and my gf card. but not mobo. maybe it is a mobo problem?
my god i wish i was some super computer cable guy.. !

[X2Guy]

No Nvidia control panel does not show my MB, and I have the new Nvidia chipset on this board(go figure). But I do have the fan control and temp monitor. I just installed the driver package from Nvidia and it was there. I have a 750w truepower PS, 8800 gts and vistia 32 also, I just cant figure out why you are having the problems you are having. maybe check your BIOS config. and make sure everything is operating at the correct voltage. I know for windws xp Nvidia has a program called Ntune, but im not sure if it works with vista

[X2Guy]

Where did u buy this computer? If all else fails just pop in the vista disk reformat and do a fresh install, update (do not let update install video driver, download from Nvida before hand and save to a thumb drive or cd first), then install video driver. I know dell and hp like to put alot of there stuff on computers that cause more trouble than they are worth.

[Tight]

OMG! i dont know what i just did.. but it seams like its running stable now..


maybe it was ERROR 40 all along.. 8| i will never turn this baby off.. haha

well.. the thing is this.. i live in italy. and im swedish.. soooooo italian operating sys and a swedish guy = ERROR 40.. :D

my god i feel so stupid now.. 6 days of hell and some button presses out of frustation seam to do the trick...

[X2Guy]

Good to hear, and happy gaming

[Tight]

hmm i was jumping the gun.. :( got 45 mins of gaming..

ill take this paperpress back to the store.. i dont want to poke around with it any more..

and sorry Rob, probably need another reset when i get it back. . :S