Freezing while gaming, System Freezes while gaming only Options

[bouchusar]

I can't seem to get games to play longer than 2 minutes without my computer freezing. The sound dies out and the picture freezes and a hard reboot is needed. No error messages are displayed or sent to the Event viewer.

My system
ATX 12V 420 watts power supply
3 case fans
3.4 Ghz Pentium 4
GA-8N-SLI Royal F1 motherboard (Rev. 1001, BIOS 6.00PG)
2G RAM (PQI DDR2 667 PC2 5400)
74GB SATA drive (setup as single nvidia striping array)
Geforce 7800 GTX
Realtek onboard AC97 sound

This only happens in certain games, such as World of Warcraft and Rome Total War. The system run fine otherwise - scrolling the net, playing games such as C&C General and Star Wars Battlefront with no problems. I assume it is not a RAM issue if the problem is not universal. I updated my Direct X to 9.0c, I've tried the latest and previous Video Drivers. I disabled the onboard sound and ran the games with no sound and still it froze. I've tested the fans in the case and overheating doesn't seem to be an issue. I have a single Sata drive installed with the OS on it, but, once again, no other problems so I'm assuming I have the bios and raid setup correctly. I'm really not sure what else to do.
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Rome Total war message (Froze then closed on it's own, only got these messages once):

The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: 6.

The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: 7.

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Ran another test with Battlefield 2 and it froze after about 2 minutes, also with no error message. I think it may have something to do with newer games???
Any Ideas?

[Ironbender]

Hi bouchusar, welcome to SAF

Sounds more like some buggy game pack or server issue to me... have you tried other servers?

Have you reviewed the faq list from those games website ?

Also, this topic may interest you:
http://www.suggestafix.com/index.php?act=S...=20&t=17903&hl=

Chris

[bouchusar]

I just ran memtest and got quite a few errors. I then tested each stick in DIMM 1 and no errors were reported on either. I put them both back in DIMM 1 and DIMM 3 and errors again. I also tried them in DIMM2 and 4, no go. I'm not sure what the problem is? Is there some setting to get RAM to work with Gigabyte boards while on dual channel DDR2 mode? Is it a bios setting...I don't see any way to verify the voltage settings. All I see is +/- .1 changes to dimm voltage. Does turbo have to be enabled?

/sigh

[Ironbender]

Hi bouchusar,

Any error on running Memtest will point to a bad RAM issue... There are not few errors in Memtest.

As you had Memtest errors, I strongly recommend you to change your RAM sticks.

Chris

[bouchusar]

Ok, but why do they both check out fine running solo. My mobo supports DDR2 dual channel mode and I've placed the RAM in the correct DIMM slots.

[Ironbender]

QUOTE (bouchusar @ Sep 28 2005, 03:07 AM)

Ok, but why do they both check out fine running solo.  My mobo supports DDR2 dual channel mode and I've placed the RAM in the correct DIMM slots.

Mmmmm...

Are both sticks the same make and model ?

Maybe some kind of buggy setting on your motherboard/BIOS ?

Will need more skilled help on here...