Hi,
As you can see from the topic, I'm not really sure what the problem might be, so here comes the description of it.
Whenever I play something that's pretty graphics heavy (Deus Ex, Dead Island and Battlefield 3 Beta being the most recent) my computer crashes in a few different ways. The things that can happen is a normal crash to desktop, game freeze, complete shut down, or any of the first two combined with one or more hard drives not showing up in My Computer afterwards. The system disk never crashes.
I've tried deleting and reinstalling all drivers, and have searched for viruses etc but found nothing. Under heavy load I can also hear something that sounds like a hard drive shutting off. A sort of "click". This happens several times until I turn off the game I play, regardless of where the game is installed (I run some games on my SSD-drive, and some on Steam which is installed on another drive).
My specs are:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
8GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 560 Ti
The main drive is an SSD, the secondary drive is a 7200rpm SATA. I also have two 5400RPM IDE drives connected but not being used. Power supply is 650W (too little?).
I haven't tried to format my computer or any of the drives, as I see that as a last resort. Any ideas what can be causing the problem?
Thanks for any replies.
-Shik
As you can see from the topic, I'm not really sure what the problem might be, so here comes the description of it.
Whenever I play something that's pretty graphics heavy (Deus Ex, Dead Island and Battlefield 3 Beta being the most recent) my computer crashes in a few different ways. The things that can happen is a normal crash to desktop, game freeze, complete shut down, or any of the first two combined with one or more hard drives not showing up in My Computer afterwards. The system disk never crashes.
I've tried deleting and reinstalling all drivers, and have searched for viruses etc but found nothing. Under heavy load I can also hear something that sounds like a hard drive shutting off. A sort of "click". This happens several times until I turn off the game I play, regardless of where the game is installed (I run some games on my SSD-drive, and some on Steam which is installed on another drive).
My specs are:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
8GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 560 Ti
The main drive is an SSD, the secondary drive is a 7200rpm SATA. I also have two 5400RPM IDE drives connected but not being used. Power supply is 650W (too little?).
I haven't tried to format my computer or any of the drives, as I see that as a last resort. Any ideas what can be causing the problem?
Thanks for any replies.
-Shik