Thread of PC Woes, Troubles, Problems, and Issues

Originally Posted by frank007

what cooling do you have?
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I have 2 fans that came with the tower, 1 on the cpu and 1 on the graphics card.

I stress tested the CPU's (which is quad core) all 4 of them and the graphics card at the same time for 6 hours no problems.


Originally Posted by Blackhand

I'd say more likely that its the PSU. I recently had a PC that had exactly the same problem as your describing as the result of a faulty PSU, 30 mins of gameplay, then it would crash to a black screen with a buzz through the speakers. It gradually got worse until pretty much any load on the PSU caused it to do this. I would recommend taking it in on warranty and having them test it out.

The noise sounds similar to volt squeal, it doesn't indicate anything is wrong and you wouldn't be able to get a replacement on warranty for components just because of volt squeal. Sometimes GFX cards, motherboards or PSUs do it.
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I see, but I had it stress tested by Frontoza (Not sure of the spelling) technical staff and they said there was nothing wrong with the PSU, but I think I will take it back then, rather safe then sorry. Even so the stress test would have caused the PSU to malfunction wouldn't it?

You see it doesn't always crash, somtimes I can play for hours but when it starts then it doesn't stop

Could my problem maybe be driver related?
 
Trying to confirm something here so help me out if you had experience such things.

So last night was busy playing allien swarm then I got some lines running from top to bottom of my screen. Shutdown my pc and cleaned it out. looked for any signs of damage and could not see anything nor smell anything.

Put it back in and started the pc it up, but it cept restarting as soon as it should go into windows.
was able to go into safe mode and uninstall the drivers then I can get into normal windows but I got 4 pairs of lines running down my screen. Installing the nvidia drivers resaulted in the restarting non stop again.

Seems my power switch on my case is broken so swapped it out for the reset switch now each time I power on my pc it would come one Cpu fan spinning as well as the case fan then die for a few sec before it will switch it self on again and that is where I am stuck atm. It does not post reseated the ram and gpu again but still noting.

So any idea what could cause this? Gpu and PSU? or just GPU thats messing with the PSU as well?

Intel dual core 2.8
2gigs crosair Ram
600watt PSU
Nvidia 8800gts 320meg
 
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Sounds like GPU to me. I would try get a test Gfx card and see if you that resolves it, but ya definitely sounds like your card is on the blink.
 
Definitely the GPU mine did the exact same thing just a few months ago Geforce 8800 and i took it in and ja i ended up buying myself the ATI 5660 and ja nothing else i could do i guess... how long have you had the card for?
 
Its in its 3de year now if I remember correctly and with us moving 3times I have no idea where the invoice is.
 
Crzwaco said:
Its in its 3de year now if I remember correctly and with us moving 3times I have no idea where the invoice is.
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Dude Trust me I'm surprised mine last 3yrs so ja I mean maybe it is finally time to hang up the old card and slide in the new one considering a decent one retails at around R1200 and i picked up my 5660 for R900 from Zaps :) speak to MooDy she might be able to give you something worth your money.
 
sycogrim said:
Dude Trust me I'm surprised mine last 3yrs so ja I mean maybe it is finally time to hang up the old card and slide in the new one considering a decent one retails at around R1200 and i picked up my 5660 for R900 from Zaps :) speak to MooDy she might be able to give you something worth your money.
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Yes just confirmed my gpu is packing up.
Looking at the 4850 going for R1300 from zaps.
 
I can attest to it being the GPU, my 8800GT packed up a few months ago with the same problem. Bought myself a Radeon 5770 as a replacement and never looked back. :) For the price range you are looking at I would get a 5750 or 5770.
 
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Hey All last nite after our power came back on in Randburg I started getting a high pitched noise coming from my PC... then as I moved to find out what it was the PC shutdown and then proceeded to restart itself. I then switched it off and realized the noise was still there and coming from my PSU... is it possible that a surge has blown it?? Thanks :)
 
sycogrim said:
Hey All last nite after our power came back on in Randburg I started getting a high pitched noise coming from my PC... then as I moved to find out what it was the PC shutdown and then proceeded to restart itself. I then switched it off and realized the noise was still there and coming from my PSU... is it possible that a surge has blown it?? Thanks :)
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yep sounds like it
 
ah ok cool well i thought as much... Dammit now i gotta fork out another R900 *sigh* does it ever end :(
 
Hey peeps another problem i need help with :)

A user here at my work was able to print up until yesterday... now here is the catchy bit... She cant print to any of the network printers as well as her local printer which is attached to her machine... now I checked the print spooler service and its all good, I restarted, and I deleted and re-added the printers... The drivers are also all good because i re-installed those too...

Any ideas???

Thanks :)
 
Screwy printer maybe? Can anyone else print to her printer or the network printers?

Otherwise the old time classic

Format c: [enter]
 
I've just about had it with my laptop. There's a virus that is literally eating away at my harddrive space and since my Windows Update refuses to updat, my defender is very out of date.

I need a fast and free solution if anyone can think of something... I've used AVG before but it buggered up my computer and put my drivers in quarantine.... <_<
 
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