Ear Piercing crash of death....revisited

Ok,
As posted in a previous thread,
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=48650&sid=&hilightuser=39974
I am experiencing the ear piercing crash during gaming only. Going along fine and suddenly-- nails down the chalkboard courtesy of the speakers, and a total system hang, remedied only by the reset button. Not even necessarily in heavy "combat" situations, happens just sometimes when booting the game (Call of Duty). Here's what I've tried.
-Dumped the "new" ATI drivers and went with the latest Omega's
-Got new PSU
-Graphics card is only device attached to the respective PSU line
-Reinstalled VIA 4 in 1's, DirectX and drivers, respectively
-Turned off AGP fast writes
-Turned off spread spectrum
-BIOS 1.6
-Banged head into desk, repeatedly.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully it's not time to RMA the card.
Thanks in advance.

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Originally posted by shorner
Glad to see that I'm not the only one with this quirk. Interestingly, I upped the RAM voltage to 2.65, and have not experienced the crash since. Even got a few extra hours of "testing" ie. gaming, in with wife approval, as I had to be sure that this didn't happen to her while she was doing her work reports .
Not really sure why this works, as I have run memtest & prime95 etc etc for extended periods of time with no problems. MAybe the extra draw of the graphics card during gaming affects the RAM voltage???--shouldnt with a decent PSU. Maybe I'm on the "verge of stability" with the RAM settings and a little heat messes things up. Who knows.
So hopefully, this will continue to fix the problem, or fry my RAM...whichever.
Thanks for the help.
Hmmm....
Wonder if my wife would fall for that?
I think you may find, in most of these cases, it is a heat build up, as the heat builds even by only a few degrees, the PSUs output falls dramatically, that I think is why raising the volts often helps, I raise both AGP and DDR.
cheers
jocko

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