While playing World of Warcraft on pretty low settings, I start to see giant shapes and random colors throughout my screen. Sometimes my screen just goes black, and my computer becomes unresponsive. The speakers stutter for a while. The computer stays on, though. I just have to do a manual power down to reset.
I have ran several GPU stability tests, and I do not see any strange shapes, and the computer doesn't crash.
I used RivaTuner to turn the GPU fan up to 100%. I have 4 case fans, with a fan on the heat sink thing above my GPU (don't know if that is what that is or not lol). Recently, I have taken the side of my case completely off, and have an electric fan blowing directly onto my GPU. That helped for a while, but the issue has come back. Now, it is worse than ever.
I underclocked my GPU. I've tried the lowest possible settings on everything. It is still messing up.
My system is as follows:
-Alienware Predator Case
-Computer Type: ACPI x86-based PC
-Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit
-ATI Radeon X1950 pro (256 MB). (Everest is saying I have 2 of those, but I'm pretty sure I only have 1? It is just listing it twice for some reason, idk)
-Rocketfish 500W PSU
-Monitor Dell 17" LCD flatscreen
- Motherboard:
CPU Type: DualCore Intel Celeron E3200, 2400 MHz (12 x 200)
Motherboard Name: Intel Bad Axe D975XBX (2 PCI, 3 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset: Intel Glenwood-DG i975X
System Memory: 3328 MB (DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM)
DIMM1: Samsung M3 78T2863DZS-CE6 1 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-15 @ 333 MHz) (4-4-4-12 @ 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 @ 200 MHz) Have 4 of these.
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
- Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF
IDE Controller Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller
Storage Controller Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller
Disk Drive ST3500418AS ATA Device (500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Disk Drive WDC WD3200AAJS-65VWA0 ATA Device (298 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 ATA Device (465 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive HP DVD Writer 1270r ATA Device
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
-DMI:
DMI BIOS Vendor Intel Corp.
DMI BIOS Version BX97510J.86A.1334.2006.0714.1343
-DMI System UUID 76F10420-26E311DB-BF41000E-A68F75BC
-DMI Motherboard Manufacturer Intel Corporation
DMI Motherboard Product D975XBX
DMI Motherboard Version AAD27094-305
-BIOS Properties:
Vendor Intel Corp.
Version BX97510J.86A.1334.2006.0714.1343
Release Date 07/14/2006
Size 512 KB
Boot Devices Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, CD-ROM, ATAPI ZIP
Capabilities Flash BIOS, Shadow BIOS, Selectable Boot, EDD, BBS
Supported Standards DMI, ACPI
Expansion Capabilities PCI, USB
-Processor Properties:
Manufacturer Intel(R) Corporation
Version Intel(R) Genuine processor
Asset Tag Unknown
External Clock 100 MHz
Maximum Clock 4000 MHz
Current Clock 400 MHz
Type Central Processor
Voltage 1.6 V
Status Enabled
Socket Designation J3E1
-CPU Properties:
CPU Type DualCore Intel Celeron E3200
CPU Alias Harpertown / Penryn / Wolfdale / Yorkfield
CPU Stepping R0
Engineering Sample No
CPUID CPU Name Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3200 @ 2.40GHz
CPUID Revision 0001067Ah
CPU VID 1.1500 V
-CPU Speed:
CPU Clock 1200.0 MHz (original: 2400 MHz)
CPU Multiplier 6x
CPU FSB 200.0 MHz (original: 200 MHz)
Memory Bus 333.3 MHz
DRAM:FSB Ratio 10:6
I am sooo sorry for the long thread. I don't know if I posted the important stuff or not. Please let me know if you guys need any more information to be able to help me. I appreciate you reading this thread and taking time to help me out. I freakin out over this. I bought this computer 5-6 months ago. I'm pretty upset. Any help is appreciated guys. Thanks so much.
I have ran several GPU stability tests, and I do not see any strange shapes, and the computer doesn't crash.
I used RivaTuner to turn the GPU fan up to 100%. I have 4 case fans, with a fan on the heat sink thing above my GPU (don't know if that is what that is or not lol). Recently, I have taken the side of my case completely off, and have an electric fan blowing directly onto my GPU. That helped for a while, but the issue has come back. Now, it is worse than ever.
I underclocked my GPU. I've tried the lowest possible settings on everything. It is still messing up.
My system is as follows:
-Alienware Predator Case
-Computer Type: ACPI x86-based PC
-Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit
-ATI Radeon X1950 pro (256 MB). (Everest is saying I have 2 of those, but I'm pretty sure I only have 1? It is just listing it twice for some reason, idk)
-Rocketfish 500W PSU
-Monitor Dell 17" LCD flatscreen
- Motherboard:
CPU Type: DualCore Intel Celeron E3200, 2400 MHz (12 x 200)
Motherboard Name: Intel Bad Axe D975XBX (2 PCI, 3 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset: Intel Glenwood-DG i975X
System Memory: 3328 MB (DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM)
DIMM1: Samsung M3 78T2863DZS-CE6 1 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-15 @ 333 MHz) (4-4-4-12 @ 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 @ 200 MHz) Have 4 of these.
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
- Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF
IDE Controller Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller
Storage Controller Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller
Disk Drive ST3500418AS ATA Device (500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Disk Drive WDC WD3200AAJS-65VWA0 ATA Device (298 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 ATA Device (465 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive HP DVD Writer 1270r ATA Device
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
-DMI:
DMI BIOS Vendor Intel Corp.
DMI BIOS Version BX97510J.86A.1334.2006.0714.1343
-DMI System UUID 76F10420-26E311DB-BF41000E-A68F75BC
-DMI Motherboard Manufacturer Intel Corporation
DMI Motherboard Product D975XBX
DMI Motherboard Version AAD27094-305
-BIOS Properties:
Vendor Intel Corp.
Version BX97510J.86A.1334.2006.0714.1343
Release Date 07/14/2006
Size 512 KB
Boot Devices Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, CD-ROM, ATAPI ZIP
Capabilities Flash BIOS, Shadow BIOS, Selectable Boot, EDD, BBS
Supported Standards DMI, ACPI
Expansion Capabilities PCI, USB
-Processor Properties:
Manufacturer Intel(R) Corporation
Version Intel(R) Genuine processor
Asset Tag Unknown
External Clock 100 MHz
Maximum Clock 4000 MHz
Current Clock 400 MHz
Type Central Processor
Voltage 1.6 V
Status Enabled
Socket Designation J3E1
-CPU Properties:
CPU Type DualCore Intel Celeron E3200
CPU Alias Harpertown / Penryn / Wolfdale / Yorkfield
CPU Stepping R0
Engineering Sample No
CPUID CPU Name Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3200 @ 2.40GHz
CPUID Revision 0001067Ah
CPU VID 1.1500 V
-CPU Speed:
CPU Clock 1200.0 MHz (original: 2400 MHz)
CPU Multiplier 6x
CPU FSB 200.0 MHz (original: 200 MHz)
Memory Bus 333.3 MHz
DRAM:FSB Ratio 10:6
I am sooo sorry for the long thread. I don't know if I posted the important stuff or not. Please let me know if you guys need any more information to be able to help me. I appreciate you reading this thread and taking time to help me out. I freakin out over this. I bought this computer 5-6 months ago. I'm pretty upset. Any help is appreciated guys. Thanks so much.