OliWarner
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Random Crashing
Right... Everything, and i mean everything's been fine for a quite a while then i turned off the and now the system locks before the displays fail (sometimes go patchy)
PSU/Voltages are fine
Temperatures are good
That said its not crashing now...
I'm just asking if there's anything that i've done recently (coming up) that could cause this random problem and so I know what to expect in the future.
I installed SP2 yesterday.
Updated to catalyst 4.9 drivers this morning
Had to do an emergency switch off from my UPS
Have been doing heavy networking and moving one of my monitors and my keyboard to another computer temporarily and everything's firmly plugged in now...
(250 points)
Bonus marks if anybody can tell me why my philips DVDRW packed up a few days... bios recognises it but it cannot determine disks (it has a light to tell you if there's a cd or a dvd in the drive). windows can see it but no disk.
(100 points)
get them both without me getting in a sweat and you can have the full 500
PSU/Voltages are fine
Temperatures are good
That said its not crashing now...
I'm just asking if there's anything that i've done recently (coming up) that could cause this random problem and so I know what to expect in the future.
I installed SP2 yesterday.
Updated to catalyst 4.9 drivers this morning
Had to do an emergency switch off from my UPS
Have been doing heavy networking and moving one of my monitors and my keyboard to another computer temporarily and everything's firmly plugged in now...
(250 points)
Bonus marks if anybody can tell me why my philips DVDRW packed up a few days... bios recognises it but it cannot determine disks (it has a light to tell you if there's a cd or a dvd in the drive). windows can see it but no disk.
(100 points)
get them both without me getting in a sweat and you can have the full 500
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Try replacing video card with the one completly different. Also try to d/l newest bios for gc.
And for the dvd drive - the dvdr you are putting in the drive cannot be recognized by drive - try another brand/disc.
And for the dvd drive - the dvdr you are putting in the drive cannot be recognized by drive - try another brand/disc.
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for a start: the video card's fine... tested it another PC, no probs...
for a second... the DVDRW just isnt working at all... it has an internal thing (as stated before) to recognise DVDs or CDs... and its not reporting either... it just dowsnt recognise either disk type...
for a second... the DVDRW just isnt working at all... it has an internal thing (as stated before) to recognise DVDs or CDs... and its not reporting either... it just dowsnt recognise either disk type...
ASKER
Right upgraded DivX... seems to have fixed it...
Nobus wasnt completely right, but he gets the points for poinpointing it to SP2... cheers again nobus... we seem to be sidestepping around each others PC probs...
and goddamn SP2... anybody reading this post, NEVER install SP2 - the firewall sucks ass and well everything just pretty buggy... goddamn MS, and please, Linux programmers make a DirectX compatable emu.... It's the final hurdle...
Nobus wasnt completely right, but he gets the points for poinpointing it to SP2... cheers again nobus... we seem to be sidestepping around each others PC probs...
and goddamn SP2... anybody reading this post, NEVER install SP2 - the firewall sucks ass and well everything just pretty buggy... goddamn MS, and please, Linux programmers make a DirectX compatable emu.... It's the final hurdle...
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Sorry a little drunk =)
Credit to grisk...
**slaps himself**
Good trying everybody else... its a very vague problem...
Credit to grisk...
**slaps himself**
Good trying everybody else... its a very vague problem...
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As i said the DVD drive has a thing to show if it recognises a cd or a dvd, but it's not doing it...