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Tried it, I'm using the same drivers I was before i sent off my PC to get fixed since i thought the newer ones might be causing the problem.
This is really getting me frustrated, I hate it when things break for no aparent reason.
I'm going to play cod:uo for a bit since i'm getting sick of this, it runs fine but newer games dont.

hmmm.

that'd make me wonder if it was a heat or psu issue.

Have you given it an "Engineer's Tap"?

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:hmmm.

that'd make me wonder if it was a heat or psu issue.

Maybe the PSU, I dont think its any hotter than it used to be. It looks like i'm going to have to phone the tech support people, or email them, that'd probably be easier than attempting to tell some one who doesnt know what theyre doing whats wrong then them saying, ok i'll put you through to a technician now and you can explain all that again.

Edit: btw, do you know of any way to test the psu?

Roman_Totale wrote:Have you given it an "Engineer's Tap"?

Tried it, I wonder if the "Thow it out the window" method might help.

*points to edit in above post*

mbm will do voltage monitoring too

hmm, doesnt that need you to specify your mobo though? i have some OEM board that probably isnt listed.

Edit: nope, it isnt listed.

in that case, you're probably fucked.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:in that case, you're probably fucked.

Oh well, tech support tiem, and i'll probably lose my pc for another 3 weeks

Roman_Totale wrote:Have you given it an "Engineer's Tap"?

hehe

in my experience percussive maintenance does actually work sometimes

make sure your power connector is in the back of the graphics card, maybe they were fucking around with the wiring and didn't hook it back up correctly. make sure its pushed in properly, without the proper power it'll run like michael j fox - very shakey.

you may also need to enter a cvar command, but i don't know how to do this with beef2, only with coduo.

good luck bro

northernwifeb3ta wrote:make sure your power connector is in the back of the graphics card, maybe they were fucking around with the wiring and didn't hook it back up correctly. make sure its pushed in properly, without the proper power it'll run like michael j fox - very shakey.

you may also need to enter a cvar command, but i don't know how to do this with beef2, only with coduo.

good luck bro

most graphics cards will make a massive fuss without the power lead.

and in game cvars are not how to cure system wide borkedness.

I dont think the 6610xl/6600gt needs a power connector anyway. I'm going to have a poke around inside the case this weekend before i phone tech support incase its anything obvious that i can fix easily.

just take a second to look at it. can somthing obvious go into that spare hole? was there somthing in there before? is the card in backwards? is the mobo power cord plugged in securely? should my mobo have a coffee stain there? where the fuck am i anyway? are those my legs?

Lee.H wrote:

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:hmmm.

that'd make me wonder if it was a heat or psu issue.

Maybe the PSU, I dont think its any hotter than it used to be. It looks like i'm going to have to phone the tech support people, or email them, that'd probably be easier than attempting to tell some one who doesnt know what theyre doing whats wrong then them saying, ok i'll put you through to a technician now and you can explain all that again.

Edit: btw, do you know of any way to test the psu?

Try another PSU That you know works.. Or.. If you reckon it could be Harddrive.. as thats what they changed.. Try a different HD? (Or perhaps its just me that has random bits of PC Lying around doing nothing.. )

Right, i've had a look inside the case, everything is as it should be as far as i can tell. But i've revisited the idea of temperatures, I played beef 2 for a couple of minutes then checked the CPU temp and it was reading out at 81 degrees C, doesnt the p4 use thermal throttling and slow itself down when it hits 70 degrees C? And do you think that'd be enough to cause my problems?

Google suggests you might run in to a few problems at that sort of temperature.

http://forums.livingwithstyle.com/archi ... --p-1.html

Hmm, if it was temperatures it'd definately make sense, new games need more cpu power, thermal throttling kicks in, slows down cpu and gives bad frame rates. Old games like cod dont need as much cpu so the throttling doesnt affect them.

Strange it wasnt a problem before, although i didnt really bother checking temperatures before so they might have been lower under load.

Lee.H wrote:Right, i've had a look inside the case, everything is as it should be as far as i can tell. But i've revisited the idea of temperatures, I played beef 2 for a couple of minutes then checked the CPU temp and it was reading out at 81 degrees C, doesnt the p4 use thermal throttling and slow itself down when it hits 70 degrees C? And do you think that'd be enough to cause my problems?

that is very bad. try re-seating your Heatsink Fan, using the proper amount of therman grease of course. If that doesn't work you probably have 2 options: New HSF and a new CPU.

put your computer tower on it's side (mobo side *DOWN*)

might improve things a little