ZombieZomG

Hi all, Ive got a Big problem, My Asus P5QC seems to crash in some games - COD5/Left 4 dead demo/Grid after like, 5 min to 1hr, and YET i can play Games like Cnc red alert 3 Over 8hrs straight and it doesent crash.

By Crash i mean i play the game and in the middle of it i get a Black screen with the Music/Sounds looping and then after like 5-10 sec the pc shuts off.

It is NOT An overheat Issue, i checked my temps - 44C max on CPU/45C max on Mobo and 72C on my 8800GTX.

It is NOT an overclock issue either, I Even tried to put everything back to stock - CPU/RAM/GPU Speeds but it still crashes.

It is NOT a Soundcard/Driver issue, As i have Changed the Drivers didnt help at all.

It is NOT a Videocard/Driver issue, As i have changed the drivers and got the Latest ones.

What can it be?.. its Really annoying, Because most of the games i cant play are actually my favorite ones, But games like Red alert 3/Far Cry 2 run perfectly fine.

I hope some of you could help me, Thanks in Return.

x2s3w4

Have you tried the Vista event log in the control panel? It might tell you.
Also just because you got a newer driver for your sound/graphics card doesn't mean it's not either of those. I'd lean towards graphics myself but that's only because I had pretty much the exact same problem with Vista before. Same thing also, some games played great, and some crashed after a few minutes. Finally got a driver that Vista liked and now I'm all good.

ZombieZomG

Hmm just checked the Event log, Nothing Special.. Just some Security failure or something, Could it be the 8800GTX Driver?.. should i re dl it again?..

Also if you wouldnt mind telling, what driver fixed your problem for you?.. i know we have Different VC's/Mobo's etc.. but even so, i might get so help from knowing what vista didnt like of your hardware

x2s3w4

It turns out that Vista didn't like the latest driver for my 3870 (I think it was 8.2 or 8.3) Then I tried uninstalling the driver and going to the previous driver and when I uninstalled it, it left some part of the driver and as a result the new driver was partially corrupted. After doing a lot of research I found that if I used Drive Cleaner Pro (in the download section) and uninstalled it twice (rebooting between each) in safe mode that ensures that it cleared out everything from the old driver, then I just installed the previous driver( not the latest, but the next one back) and it seemed to work OK then.
Before trying that, go to the device manager, click on your graphics card and try rolling back to the previous driver and see if that works first. That takes a lot less time and during my research it appears that solved the problem for some people. It didn't work for me, but it's a lot faster than all those reboots just in case that works for you.

ZombieZomG

k, Thanks, ill try. Ill et back to you with the info.

ZombieZomG

Well im back, however news are bad, I tried DriverCleaner, didnt help, I installed XP SP2 and still same problem (However it takes longer to crash now) But it still does... anymore suggestions?


EDIT: my 8800gtx died yesturday actually, There was a click and i could smell smoke i tried everything to bring it to life but it didnt help, So i got a ati radeon 4870 now along with 2GB OCZ DDR2 800mhz and now the performance is way better and no more crashes.