Annihilator
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I've been having trouble playing games on my PC as of late. I changed my CPU, motherboard and RAM about 5 months ago but hadn't tried gaming since then. I installed Borderlands about a month ago and kept having this issue where the game would lock up on the screen after about 2 minutes of play. The sound would still play, but the image would stand still. By doing an alt-tab and coming back in the game, I could usually keep playing, but after 3-4 occurances the game would either crash or reboot my machine.
I thought at first it could be an issue with my crappy video card (Radeon X1600) so I changed it for a BFG GeForce GTX260 with a corresponding power supply, but the problem still occurs.
I tried an older game (WAY older, baldur's gate 2) and got the same issue as with Borderlands. I tried updating my video card drivers, chipset software, flashed the BIOS to the latest version, ran a chkdsk, tried uninstalling my mobo's built in power saving software (EPU-6 engine), tried shutting down my antivirus, looked at the CPU and mobo temperature in the BIOS after a crash, nothing worked so far.
Here is my hardware setup as of now:
Motherboard: ASUS P5QC, socket 775
Processor: Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.5GHz
RAM: 4GB Kingston DDR3 (Not sure on the frequency)
Video card: BFG GeForce GTX 260
550W Power supply
Note: I installed all of that myself, so there is a possibility of a slight problem with the hardware installation, but I doubt it considering the system runs fine by itself as long as I don't launch a game.
I will try to format and reinstall Windows today, but other than that I'm running out of ideas
I thought at first it could be an issue with my crappy video card (Radeon X1600) so I changed it for a BFG GeForce GTX260 with a corresponding power supply, but the problem still occurs.
I tried an older game (WAY older, baldur's gate 2) and got the same issue as with Borderlands. I tried updating my video card drivers, chipset software, flashed the BIOS to the latest version, ran a chkdsk, tried uninstalling my mobo's built in power saving software (EPU-6 engine), tried shutting down my antivirus, looked at the CPU and mobo temperature in the BIOS after a crash, nothing worked so far.
Here is my hardware setup as of now:
Motherboard: ASUS P5QC, socket 775
Processor: Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.5GHz
RAM: 4GB Kingston DDR3 (Not sure on the frequency)
Video card: BFG GeForce GTX 260
550W Power supply
Note: I installed all of that myself, so there is a possibility of a slight problem with the hardware installation, but I doubt it considering the system runs fine by itself as long as I don't launch a game.
I will try to format and reinstall Windows today, but other than that I'm running out of ideas