scentmental
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Okay, I've registered here in hopes that the smarter folks can figure this out for me.
I've built three or four PCs in the past, and I've recently upgraded my own PC (well I pretty much bought new everything). I've been troubleshooting to the best of my ability over the last few months, but haven't been able to solve this.
THE SYMPTOMS:
1. my screen will freeze when playing fullscreen stuff like youtube videos, farmville, and HD vimeo vids. I already tried disabling hardware acceleration and it didn't help.
2. (the worst one) my PC will just freeze, no response. If there's audio playing it will lock up that too, making a godawful racket until I push reset. The freeze usually happens when I'm playing video with quicktime or Windows Media Player, both under heavy and light system usage.
3. Crysis will run, but not for long...if my PC doesn't freeze, it will eventually give me a black screen and an error message. I'm at work right now so I don't have that specific message to post here, but it's something related to video failure.
PC SPECS:
OS: Windows XP sp3
PSU:
Chiefmax 750W 20/24 Pin PS-CM-750W-24PIN Power Supply
MAINBOARD:
GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H(rev. 1.0) Socket AM3/ AMD 785G/ DDR3/ A&V&GbE/ ATX Motherboard
CPU:
AMD Phenom II x4 965 processor
GRAPHICS CARD:
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD4870 VAPOR-X 2GB DDR5 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card
RAM:
Patriot Viper II Sector 5 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1800 (PC3 14400) Desktop Memory w/ 3DMark Vantage Model PVV34G1800LLKB
DUAL MONITORS: (my troubles preceded my second monitor accrual by several months, so I doubt it's because of the dual-mon)
Westinghouse set at 1680 x 1050
Another newer monitor (not home right now, don't know the model) set at 1920 x 1080 using an HDMI cable.
Earlier today I took the video card out and put it back in, didn't seem like I'd done it wrong the first time. If it's a compatibility issue, I'd be mildly surprised...I research compatibility before I buy parts. However, I looked over a list of compatible RAM with this particular motherboard, and did NOT see my model number (PVV34G1800LLKB). I hope that's not actually the problem though because I paid $200 for 4GB. My RAM is recognized by Windows XP, and it seems to be working. All of my drivers are current as well.
I'm about ready to give up on trying to figure this out because I've exhausted my own limited knowledge on the subject of computer hardware. I'm no novice but I'm not an expert either. I'm using my PC for 3D animation and video editing (Maya and After Effects) so I need an answer to this badly.
Good fortune times infinity to anyone that can/will attempt to help me...
I've built three or four PCs in the past, and I've recently upgraded my own PC (well I pretty much bought new everything). I've been troubleshooting to the best of my ability over the last few months, but haven't been able to solve this.
THE SYMPTOMS:
1. my screen will freeze when playing fullscreen stuff like youtube videos, farmville, and HD vimeo vids. I already tried disabling hardware acceleration and it didn't help.
2. (the worst one) my PC will just freeze, no response. If there's audio playing it will lock up that too, making a godawful racket until I push reset. The freeze usually happens when I'm playing video with quicktime or Windows Media Player, both under heavy and light system usage.
3. Crysis will run, but not for long...if my PC doesn't freeze, it will eventually give me a black screen and an error message. I'm at work right now so I don't have that specific message to post here, but it's something related to video failure.
PC SPECS:
OS: Windows XP sp3
PSU:
Chiefmax 750W 20/24 Pin PS-CM-750W-24PIN Power Supply
MAINBOARD:
GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H(rev. 1.0) Socket AM3/ AMD 785G/ DDR3/ A&V&GbE/ ATX Motherboard
CPU:
AMD Phenom II x4 965 processor
GRAPHICS CARD:
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD4870 VAPOR-X 2GB DDR5 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card
RAM:
Patriot Viper II Sector 5 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1800 (PC3 14400) Desktop Memory w/ 3DMark Vantage Model PVV34G1800LLKB
DUAL MONITORS: (my troubles preceded my second monitor accrual by several months, so I doubt it's because of the dual-mon)
Westinghouse set at 1680 x 1050
Another newer monitor (not home right now, don't know the model) set at 1920 x 1080 using an HDMI cable.
Earlier today I took the video card out and put it back in, didn't seem like I'd done it wrong the first time. If it's a compatibility issue, I'd be mildly surprised...I research compatibility before I buy parts. However, I looked over a list of compatible RAM with this particular motherboard, and did NOT see my model number (PVV34G1800LLKB). I hope that's not actually the problem though because I paid $200 for 4GB. My RAM is recognized by Windows XP, and it seems to be working. All of my drivers are current as well.
I'm about ready to give up on trying to figure this out because I've exhausted my own limited knowledge on the subject of computer hardware. I'm no novice but I'm not an expert either. I'm using my PC for 3D animation and video editing (Maya and After Effects) so I need an answer to this badly.
Good fortune times infinity to anyone that can/will attempt to help me...