Crashing

Have you try shutdown all your firewall,anti-virus,anti-spyware and IM apps ? Re-install DX ? Re-install soundcard driver ?  Did you OC your Video card or RAM ? Which OS are you running? Your problem is most likely due to video card or RAM issue.

Edited by commast - 17 Dec 2007 at 9:10pm

Reseat Video card ? Check all connections ? Switch RAM slots ? Yes i know it's seem like a lot of work but it may help to isolate the problem.

okay, tried reinstalling DX. didnt work. Comp is clean, all processes are necessary....

Hi Solo,
My computer keeps crashing on me, too.  Stupid graphics card. I'll be playing something simple like the Sims 2 and it'll freeze up.  The sound will still be on but the picture will freeze, although I can still move my cursor but then my computer reboots itself.  Really strange. I'm starting to get aggravated with it.  It's really annoying.  With having trying to turn off other services on your computer?...I don't see why you should have to turn your things/services off to play a game.    That bites.  I can play Sims 2 fine on other computers and they don't crash and I don't have to turn off any firewalls or any other services.  I don't think you should  have to do that on a computer that you spent a lot of money on.
It's got to be the graphics card.  They said they were having problems with them.  Maybe the ones we received are bad or something.
I hope your computer fixes soon, Solo.  I hope mine does, too. 
I am really disappointed I keep having this problem with it. 
I'm thinking of going back and playing on my other computer until this gets resolved. Maybe I should try turning down my resolution, too? 
I want a new graphics card.  This one sucks.

DSO should include with each computer, a few pages with pictures explaining how to reseat and check all cables before they start up their system.  I was able to figure out to do this all on my own, but I know several people who would be too excited to do it or just not know any better.

Reseating is just a simple word for removing the component and installing it again to make sure it is properly inserted into the slot.

Use a temperature monitoring program like CoreTemp to make sure it isn't overheating.

A SLI bridge is used to connect two video cards together for SLI.


Edited by skyR - 02 Jan 2008 at 1:22pm

Core temp download, it asks, mirror 1 or mirror 2.  I haven't the foggiest clue.  I guess I'll just try mirror 1? 

Thanks again, SkyR, one more question.  Where do I download it to? 

Okay, I just downloaded it to my desktop. I didn't know if it had to be in a certain folder. 
I'll try this and see how it goes.

Okay, I'll do that.
At what temperature should I start to worry? Right now it's reading.. 37c, 32c, 31c and 35c for the different core #s.  That seems fine. I guess when it starts getting up to about 99 or something I should be concerned?

I tried the DL RivaTuner but it seemed too confusing to me so I uninstalled it.  I'll just go with the core temp for now.

okay
Know what?  I went to Nvidia out of curiousity and I was nosing around and in a section I clicked onto it said that you must turn off your virus protection before installing the driver or it won't work right. 
I didn't do that when I installed the drivers.  I think this may be what's wrong?  I hope.  I reinstalled it without the virus protection.  Let's see what happens.
I appreciate all you help SkyR -you're really smart.

Originally posted by Pineapplerum I played last night for 2 hours, it was fine.  I'll play again tonight.  I hope this is all that it was.  If it was then I owe Digital Storm and everyone a big apology for being such a pain in the butt about this when it was my own stupid mistake.

Hmmmm... yes, so we see now.  You will now go to your room until told to come out.  You've been a very bad guest.

Grrrrs, it crashed again so no, that wasn't it.  Sigh.  Of course, it's the weekend and tech support isn't in. 
I'm going to try and reseat the graphics card and memory.  Wish me luck.  If this doesn't work then I think I'm going to ask to exchange my graphic card with an upgrade or downgrade or something. 

I played for a little more than an hour and once again, it froze and got all red and I had to reboot my computer.  I'm going to try reinstalling the darn driver one more time without the virus protection on.
GRRRRRS!