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totalwar23 on 10 January 2008
ssj12 said:
totalwar23 said:
Okay, I might as well tell you my problem. I'm using Vista and a 8600GT overclocked to 630/1480 to play my PC games. I have a slimline PC with a 180W PSU so the card is pretty the max I can have. Anyways, I was running a game and all of a sudden, it froze but still had sound. This was similiar to a problem I had with my old PC when I had a Geforce 4 MX440 except it froze completely and I realized the MX 440 is crap. Here I can run task manager and end the game that way and everything would be fine. This problem keeps persisting so has my graphics card broke down or is it the game? The recommended requirements for the game is a 256 MB Geforce 7300 or higher. My CPU and RAM also beat the recommended requirements.

thats a small amount of power..

but anyways, does this issue happen in other games? It could be that the video card at minimum speeds can run fine but it quickly reaches the limited amount of power needed and cuts off due to lack of power.


 Well, lets see, I played Rainbow 6 Vegas and that was fine. Didn't have any problems with S.T.A.L.K.E.R., AoE III, Oblivion, and the game I'm playing now is an expansion and the original ran fine. The 8600GT I have doesn't use a lot of power anyways and I know someone with the same card and same computer with a higher overclock and he's running Crysis.



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ssj12 on 10 January 2008
totalwar23 said:
ssj12 said:
totalwar23 said:
Okay, I might as well tell you my problem. I'm using Vista and a 8600GT overclocked to 630/1480 to play my PC games. I have a slimline PC with a 180W PSU so the card is pretty the max I can have. Anyways, I was running a game and all of a sudden, it froze but still had sound. This was similiar to a problem I had with my old PC when I had a Geforce 4 MX440 except it froze completely and I realized the MX 440 is crap. Here I can run task manager and end the game that way and everything would be fine. This problem keeps persisting so has my graphics card broke down or is it the game? The recommended requirements for the game is a 256 MB Geforce 7300 or higher. My CPU and RAM also beat the recommended requirements.

thats a small amount of power..

but anyways, does this issue happen in other games? It could be that the video card at minimum speeds can run fine but it quickly reaches the limited amount of power needed and cuts off due to lack of power.


 Well, lets see, I played Rainbow 6 Vegas and that was fine. Didn't have any problems with S.T.A.L.K.E.R., AoE III, Oblivion, and the game I'm playing now is an expansion and the original ran fine. The 8600GT I have doesn't use a lot of power anyways and I know someone with the same card and same computer with a higher overclock and he's running Crysis.


 check some connectors, drivers,etc. It just sounds like a minor issue like that. Also make sure Direct X is up to date. 



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Munkeh111 on 10 January 2008
ssj12 said:
Munkeh111 said:
I don't think my problem is solvable other than by taking the computer apart, but it's worth a shot.

my laptop's screen has flickering problems, with horizantal lines across the screen sometimes, especially when I move the screen, the problem is aliviated when I shake the screen again, and it become perfect as before. I assume this is a faulty connection between the computer itself and the screen?

 well it could be two things. The video card is lose or the connector to the screen. My old Alienware was doing a similar thing, I just had to push the video card back into its sockets. 


 How can I get at a laptop without voiding the warantee. Anyway, surely if was the connection to the video card, it would react to me hitting the computer (keyboard area) rather than the screen itself



ssj12 on 10 January 2008
Munkeh111 said:
ssj12 said:
Munkeh111 said:
I don't think my problem is solvable other than by taking the computer apart, but it's worth a shot.

my laptop's screen has flickering problems, with horizantal lines across the screen sometimes, especially when I move the screen, the problem is aliviated when I shake the screen again, and it become perfect as before. I assume this is a faulty connection between the computer itself and the screen?

 well it could be two things. The video card is lose or the connector to the screen. My old Alienware was doing a similar thing, I just had to push the video card back into its sockets. 


 How can I get at a laptop without voiding the warantee. Anyway, surely if was the connection to the video card, it would react to me hitting the computer (keyboard area) rather than the screen itself


umm.. cant.. but if its under warranty go have it repaired CC does do warranty work. 



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Munkeh111 on 10 January 2008
ssj12 said:
Munkeh111 said:
ssj12 said:
Munkeh111 said:
I don't think my problem is solvable other than by taking the computer apart, but it's worth a shot.

my laptop's screen has flickering problems, with horizantal lines across the screen sometimes, especially when I move the screen, the problem is aliviated when I shake the screen again, and it become perfect as before. I assume this is a faulty connection between the computer itself and the screen?

 well it could be two things. The video card is lose or the connector to the screen. My old Alienware was doing a similar thing, I just had to push the video card back into its sockets. 


 How can I get at a laptop without voiding the warantee. Anyway, surely if was the connection to the video card, it would react to me hitting the computer (keyboard area) rather than the screen itself


umm.. cant.. but if its under warranty go have it repaired CC does do warranty work. 

It's being picked up tommorow, but I was just seeing if there was an easier solution, I don't know how I'm going to live without a computer

 



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totalwar23 on 10 January 2008

Okay, this isn't really a problem but a question.
I currently have 2 GB RAM dual channel and want to upgrade to 2 * 2GB sticks. However I was told that isn't possible. I want to know why not?

Here is the current RAM I have now.

DDR2
Module size: 1024 Mbytes.
Max Bandwidth: PC2-5300 (333 MHz)



epsilon72 on 10 January 2008

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totalwar23 on 10 January 2008
epsilon72 said:
totalwar23 said:
Okay, this isn't really a problem but a question.
I currently have 2 GB RAM dual channel and want to upgrade to 2 * 2GB sticks. However I was told that isn't possible. I want to know why not?

Here is the current RAM I have now.

DDR2
Module size: 1024 Mbytes.
Max Bandwidth: PC2-5300 (333 MHz)


Which is it? Is your ram 333 mhz or is it PC2-5300? (those are two different speeds of ram)


 

Doesn't DDR2 double that speed to 667MHz

epsilon72 on 10 January 2008
totalwar23 said:
epsilon72 said:
totalwar23 said:
Okay, this isn't really a problem but a question.
I currently have 2 GB RAM dual channel and want to upgrade to 2 * 2GB sticks. However I was told that isn't possible. I want to know why not?

Here is the current RAM I have now.

DDR2
Module size: 1024 Mbytes.
Max Bandwidth: PC2-5300 (333 MHz)


Which is it? Is your ram 333 mhz or is it PC2-5300? (those are two different speeds of ram)


 

Doesn't DDR2 double that speed to 667MHz

Yes, you are correct...oops. You should be fine hardware wise, but unless you have a 64-bit OS you won't be able to utilize 4 gigabytes of ram. Do you really need that amount? (what sort of apps do you run?)



ssj12 on 10 January 2008
totalwar23 said:
epsilon72 said:
totalwar23 said:
Okay, this isn't really a problem but a question.
I currently have 2 GB RAM dual channel and want to upgrade to 2 * 2GB sticks. However I was told that isn't possible. I want to know why not?

Here is the current RAM I have now.

DDR2
Module size: 1024 Mbytes.
Max Bandwidth: PC2-5300 (333 MHz)


Which is it? Is your ram 333 mhz or is it PC2-5300? (those are two different speeds of ram)


 

Doesn't DDR2 double that speed to 667MHz

its a matter of how much ram the motherboard supports. Dont listen to people saying that XP doesnt support 4GB of ram. Thats BS. XP jsut doesnt count past like 3.7GBs of ram. You could have 16GBs of ram and only have it read as 3.7GBs. 



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