Computer Locks up during game play

When Ever I try to play Halo Or ut2004 and lot of my other games my computer locks up and soung repeats it self i cant Ctrl Alt Del or nothing i have to press the reset button

well i got to play with my new system for about 2 weeks but now we had a power outage and while comp was on and now i can turn it on or any thing any i deas on what the heck to do cause frankly i about to salvage what i got and go intel cause i pretty anoyyed with the whole psu thing any way Aspire sucky teck support is trying to tell me that all psus do this when the power goes out i said " thats funny cause i have four of these gaming rigs for my gaming center and only one did it " any clues any one?

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I've seen a couple other concerned users in here and figured I'd post my issue with my Oct (mid) 2010 27in i5 iMac.
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Hello,
I've seen a couple other concerned users in here and figured I'd post my issue with my Oct (mid) 2010 27in i5 iMac.
For starters:
2.8ghz Intel i5
16gb of 1333 ddr3
ATI Radeon HD 5759 1024mb
Mac OS Lion 10.7.4
During game play the temperature of the top portion of the iMac exceeds 120'F, I'm fine with the heat, It's a large sealed aluminum case housing lots of hot items. Here's the catch my graphics begin to deteriorate and pixel/hexigon away so gaming is no longer visible... Now I've got a desk fan running behind the computer and can get a few more minutes before the pixel/hexigonal phase hits and game play must stop or be tolerated.
I just downloaded iStat widget to attempt to capture some temperature and fan data. Could this issue not be the temperature and maybe my GPU? Is there a standard limit of temperature to determine maybe my fans are not functioning correctly? Is there a safe way to clean the iMac's innerds without damaging anything?
Thanks -
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(2) In game
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Stock No over clocking
AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History
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Cant get CCC to work properly
Operating System
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Motherboard or System Make & Model
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I am surprised that it works at all, sometimes. PCIE 1.1 slot.
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Suggest you test your system with a quality single 12V rail PSU of 30A or more.
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0019CADF): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x2dc0fb2c, CR3: 0x00d45000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x000002f0, EBX: 0x2dc0fb28, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x0000070a
ESP: 0x2dc0fb2c, EBP: 0x1c83bc88, ESI: 0x000006fc, EDI: 0x26acf40c
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x005de17a, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x1c830010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x1c83b668 : 0x128b5e (0x3bc46c 0x1c83b68c 0x131bbc 0x0)
0x1c83b6a8 : 0x19cadf (0x3c18e4 0x0 0xe 0x3c169c)
0x1c83b758 : 0x197c7d (0x1c83b76c 0x1c83bc88 0x5de17a 0x5d0048)
0x1c83b764 : 0x5de17a (0x5d0048 0x10 0x3d40010 0x1c830010)
0x1c83bc88 : 0x5bf8ab (0x3c09800 0x1c83bcf0 0x3b63aa4 0x3b63aa8)
0x1c83bd18 : 0x3a1e39 (0x3c09800 0x1 0x1c83bd4c 0x1c83bd48)
0x1c83bd58 : 0x3a5343 (0x3c09800 0x1 0x2e69b90 0x1)
0x1c83bd88 : 0x189fe5 (0x3c09800 0x1 0x2e69b90 0x3b63ac0)
0x1c83bdd8 : 0x12b389 (0x3b63a8c 0x38030a0 0x1c83be18 0x11dd90)
0x1c83be18 : 0x124902 (0x3b63a00 0x2e40398 0x34e5c0c 0x0)
0x1c83bf28 : 0x193034 (0x1c83bf54 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x1c83bfd8 : 0x19814b (0x3b35030 0x3b35030 0x2dc0fb28 0x2dc0fb2c) No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbfffe808
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.ATIRadeonX1000(4.3.2)@0x5b7000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.0)@0x57e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.3)@0x58d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.3)@0x5a8000
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.7.1: Wed Jun 7 16:19:56 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.9.72.obj~2/RELEASE_I386
Model: iMac4,1, BootROM IM41.0039.B00, 2 processors, Intel Core Duo, 2 GHz, 1.5 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1600, ATY,RadeonX1600, PCIe, 128 MB
Memory Module: DIMM0/BANK 0, 512 MB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM1/BANK 1, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x14E4, 0x89), 103.2 (3.120.28.3)
Bluetooth: Version 1.7.5f10, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Built-in Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
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Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-846
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USB Device: MP450, Canon, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Bluetooth HCI, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
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USB Device: Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
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The first responsibles for such kernel issues are extra RAM or USB peripherals.
What about your RAM and USB devices?
I'd seggest you to run OnyX, maybe that panic was software related.
See Apple on kernel panics.
Antonio

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MSI Neo2 K8N Platinum - Freezing Issue during games

First off greetings to everyone on these forums...
I purchased the MSI Neo2 K8N Platinum motherboard from NewEgg back at the end of March to compliment the AMD 64 "Winchester" processor that I also purchased at that time to replace a slightly older AMD XP "Barton" system that was using the Abit NF7-S motherboard. For the past month I have been fighting an unusual and highly irritating issue that I have noticed during game play and have tried everything that I know of and more in an attempt to remedy this issue, but to no avail. This is the general background of the situation and now I will descibe in greater detail as to what this issue I am referring to is and the symptoms of this issue and some of the various methods used to remedy this issue.
The issue is that while play a game the system experiences a short 5-10 second freeze during the game randomly, but usually several times an hour. During this freezing the sound would loop and as suddenly as the freeze occurs it would cease and the game would continue on as if nothing happened. However, sometimes this would result in the system freezing outright after this short 5-10 second freeze... but it does not feel like a total system freeze, but rather a video freeze as the sound continues and I still have keyboard control... but this does require me to force a manual reboot of the machine itself. I have scowered the internet and various forums in an attempt to find what the issue was and use various methods to remedy this issue, but so far nothing has worked in my favor... but it does seem like this issue has been plaguing other users with the MSI Neo2 Platinum motherboard. Below are some of the methods that I have used in an attempt to solve this issue:
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*Disabled/Enabled AGP Fast Writes
*Increased AGP Aperture from 64MB to 512MB
*Enabled/Disabled ATI/nVidia Speedup option in BIOS
*Forced AGP clock lock to 66-67mhz
*Relaxed/Aggressive memory timings
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*Disabled nVidia MAC and attempted to use 3Com Gigabit PCI card instead
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*Applied all the latest updates from Windows Update Website
*Reinstalled Operating System (Windows XP SP2) 5 different times clean with various settings (APIC on/off, etc...) and different drivers.
*Installed Audio Card (SB Audigy2 ZS Gamer) with older and the latest drivers available from Creative's website
*Replaced PSU (Previously was a Thermaltake 420watt PSU, 18A +12v) with a OCZ Modstream 520watt PSU (28A +12v)
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*Hard Drive is KNOWN working from previous build
*CD/DVD-ROM drive is kNOWN working from previous build
*Heat is not an issue... all components temperature is well below rated level, the only unknown is the chipset temperature (it has a active heatsink and seems to not be hot to the touch, applied AS5 to it anyway)
*Used latency tweak to the video card
*Used Rivatuner to force constant performance level
*Tweaked BIOS to force even clock rates and forced 1.4v to the GPU Core
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*Used MSI Neo2 K8N Bios 1.4 - 1.8 and modified BIOS 1.8
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*Used application to force maximum refresh rates for my monitor
*Memory passed MemTest86+ for over 24 hours
*System passed Prime95 and SuperPi for over 24 hours
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*Checked through various troubleshooting procedures
*Disabled SBDRVDET.EXE using MSCONFIG
*There are no IRQ conflicts outside of PCI system management sharing IRQ11 with the NIC and USB... in APIC there are no IRQ conflicts what so ever. Regardless neither method worked
*Installed AMD 64 drivers from AMD
*Disabled DEP in boot.ini
*...and many other various tweaks and modifications.
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CPU - AMD 64 3200+ "Winchester", using Thermaltake Silentboost K8 and AS5
Motherboard - MSI Neo2 K8N Platinum (nForce3 250GB Ultra) - Using Bios version 1.8
Memory - 2X 512MB Corsair XMS TwinX1024-3200C2PT (2 Modules, Memory Slots 1 and 2 used)
Audio - Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS (PCI Slot 3 used)
NIC - Onboard nVidia MAC, Disabled Realtek NIC
Video - XFX Geforce 6800NU 128MB AGP (BIOS Rev 1) - NV Silencer 5 and AS5
Case - Thermaltake Damier Series 5000
PSU - OCZ Modstream 520watt (28A +12v rail)
HDD - Western Digital 1200JB 7200rpm IDE
DVD-ROM - Lite-On 16X DVD-ROM
Floppy - Mitsumi 1.44MB 3.25"
OS - Windows XP SP2/DirectX 9c
I have been fighting this issue for well over a month now and I am frankly nearly out of ideas, this does not necessarly prevent me from playing games, but this does interfere with the games I do play (especially online games). I do demand absolute stability from the games that I play and this issue only began AFTER I upgraded to the new motherboard, processor, and memory. The only thing I have not tried is something that I do not have access in attempting on this motherboard, and that is increasing the voltage to the chipset.
Here is my theory on what is going on is that I believe is there is a fault with the chipset on this motherboard and this is manifesting itself while I am playing various games on this system. Of course I would like to try increasing the voltage to the chipset as that would increase stability, but there is no option in BIOS to increase the chipset voltage like the previous motherboard I had (Abit NF7-S). It is possible that either a) the chipset is at fault and is causing me this issue or b) the chipset is not recieving enough voltage.
My question to the rest of you is this, what do you think the problem is and what ideas do you have that I may try that I have not tried yet. Additionally if there is nothing else that I may try should I attempt to RMA this motherboard and will that help, and is there any other versions of this motherboard that I should be aware of. I would appreciate any response from a MSI representative and any comments from those that may have positive suggestions for my issue. Thank you in advance for your time and any help that you may be able to render.
The GameMaster...
*EDIT* Added additional methods attempted... (there was a lot... so I did not remember everything that I have tried)

Quote from: dacull on 25-May-05, 16:06:33
Does it only happen in online games, or can it happen in all games? One thing to make sure of is to turn off CRC checksum offload in your NVidia MAC properties (everyone do this, it is incorrectly calculating checksums which leads to servers ignoring your packets). However as you have tried a different network card you can discount this theory.
For me it looks like the biggest culrpit is your 6800NU, i have read alot of bad things about the NU and you have a low bios revision there, just because it worked well against your old chipset doesnt mean it will work well against your current chipset. Sounds like a BIOS fix is needed as some timing is out somewhere.
Ensure Spread Spectrum is off (and as you have already pointed out Fast writes, ATI NV Speedup) and your card is running at default clock.
As a test beg/borrow/steal another graphics card (preferably nvidia) and see how it goes so you can narrow in on your video card.
It is not just one game, but it is more prodominate in certain games than others... the game in question here is Planetside... though I stuck a demo of Unreal Tournament 2004 on a loop bot match and it seemed to have locked up after 4 hours (not sure how many times it experienced that 5-10 freeze as I went to bed). As for the video card it was KNOWN working from a previous build in those same games (Previous build was a AMDXP3000 and a Abit NF7-S nForce2 motherboard). The only components different in this build is the AMD64, the MSI Neo2 K8N, 2 new sticks of Corsair XMS to replace the Corsair ValueSelects, and the SB Audigy2 as I would never use a software codec audio solution. Spread Spectrum is LOCKED in BIOS and disabled... ATI/nVidia speed up was disabled from the start... and I tried the Video Card at default clock, over clocked, as well as under clocked and the same issue resulted... as I said before it is NOT the video card.
There are two other things I could try is use my old Geforce4ti 4200 and see what happens... or even try out WindowsXP 64-bit edition as someone earlier suggested. I wish I could find a new BIOS for my XFX 6800NU, but there there is only the revision 1 BIOS that I was able to find. The mystery continues...
The GameMaster...

Please help me CREATIVE !!! Audigy 2 ZS causes hiccup/stutter/freeze during game p

HI,
During game play it would freeze (or stutter) for about sec and then back to normal and this happens about every -2 mins, if I take out the audigy sound card then the prob goes away
It didn't used to do this or at least I wasn;t aware of until I ran a program called PCI Latency Tool 2.0 to test different settings of the PCI latency timer and all hell broke loose. Ive tried reloadingh the BIOS and reimaging the partition to the state where everything used to work but to no avail
I look at the IRQ table in WIn XP and the AGP card & the Audigy are sharing the same IRQ but I guess this is normal for WIn XP
I have no spyware running in the background, no USB game pad/controller plugged in, AGAIN the prob goes away when I take out the sound card
I only have AGP and PCI slot, I have a mini motherboard
My spec:
P4 3. Ghz
GB PC3500 Kingston
Audigy 2 ZS
NVIDIA 6600GT
Maxtor SATA 60 GB
Windows XP Pro with SP2
DirectX 9.0c
Latest Creative Driver
Message Edited by webaccount on <SPAN class=date_text>0-5-2005 <SPAN class=time_text>04:43 AM
Message Edited by webaccount on 0-5-2005 04:45 AM

HI,
During game play it would freeze (or stutter) for about sec and then back to normal and this happens about every -2 mins, if I take out the audigy sound card then the prob goes away
It didn't used to do this or at least I wasn;t aware of until I ran a program called PCI Latency Tool 2.0 to test different settings of the PCI latency timer and all hell broke loose. Ive tried reloadingh the BIOS and reimaging the partition to the state where everything used to work but to no avail
I look at the IRQ table in WIn XP and the AGP card & the Audigy are sharing the same IRQ but I guess this is normal for WIn XP
I have no spyware running in the background, no USB game pad/controller plugged in, AGAIN the prob goes away when I take out the sound card
I only have AGP and PCI slot, I have a mini motherboard
My spec:
P4 3. Ghz
GB PC3500 Kingston
Audigy 2 ZS
NVIDIA 6600GT
Maxtor SATA 60 GB
Windows XP Pro with SP2
DirectX 9.0c
Latest Creative Driver
Message Edited by webaccount on <SPAN class=date_text>0-5-2005 <SPAN class=time_text>04:43 AM
Message Edited by webaccount on 0-5-2005 04:45 AM

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