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January 27th, 2008 10:00

Unstable H2c

Anyone have problems with the system crahing to desktop or locking up altogether whilst carring out extreme gaming ( FSX, Crysis etc ) ?
 
It so unstable, getting fed up with the thing being unreliable ...
 
Ive tried updating the the latest Dell drivers and Nvidia drivers, even Beta drivers but still no joy ...
 
Specs are :
 
 


 
 
PROCESSOR H2C Intel® Core™ 2 Quad-Core Extreme QX6850 Processor (3.46GHz,1066MHz,8MB cache)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English  
MONITOR Dell™ 24" Black Wide Flat Panel (E248WFP) - UK/Irish
MEMORY 4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [4x1024]
HARD DRIVE 1TB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe (2x500GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache)
ADDITIONAL HARD DRIVES 320GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA/100 Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst™ cache
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW & 48x CDRW/DVD Combo Drive  
GRAPHICS CARD DUAL 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX graphics cards
PHYSICS PCI CARD 128MB Ageia™ PhysX™ physics accelerator PCI card  
 
  • chama98

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    Posted January 27th, 2008 14:00



    Gary9895 wrote:
    Anyone have problems with the system crahing to desktop or locking up altogether whilst carring out extreme gaming ( FSX, Crysis etc ) ?
     
    It so unstable, getting fed up with the thing being unreliable ...
     
    Ive tried updating the the latest Dell drivers and Nvidia drivers, even Beta drivers but still no joy ...
     
    Specs are :
     
     


     
     
    PROCESSOR H2C Intel® Core™ 2 Quad-Core Extreme QX6850 Processor (3.46GHz,1066MHz,8MB cache)
    OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English  
    MONITOR Dell™ 24" Black Wide Flat Panel (E248WFP) - UK/Irish
    MEMORY 4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [4x1024]
    HARD DRIVE 1TB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe (2x500GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache)
    ADDITIONAL HARD DRIVES 320GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA/100 Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst™ cache
    OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD+/-RW & 48x CDRW/DVD Combo Drive  
    GRAPHICS CARD DUAL 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX graphics cards
    PHYSICS PCI CARD 128MB Ageia™ PhysX™ physics accelerator PCI card  
     


    first things first, have you over clocked it? if so that might be causing the problem, any software added recently?
     
    there might be a bug in the game, have you checked the web site for any fixes?
     

     
  • Gary9895

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    Posted January 27th, 2008 15:00

    No overclocking done by me, only what state it was in from Dell, no real software added except games but its always been like this since I got it ... Ive got all the latest updates and patches for all my games and system ... I think I will be requiring a call from a Dell technician ...
  • chama98

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    Posted January 27th, 2008 19:00



    Gary9895 wrote:
    No overclocking done by me, only what state it was in from Dell, no real software added except games but its always been like this since I got it ... Ive got all the latest updates and patches for all my games and system ... I think I will be requiring a call from a Dell technician ...


    do you get any error messages? error codes? have you looked in the event viewer for clues?
     
    it might be an idea if you got the PC straight from dell that you reformat and reinstall, this will correct any errors by badly written software to disk and cut down on any rubbish which is confusing it.
     
     
  • mickelodian

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    Posted January 28th, 2008 06:00

    Thats funny , I'm having a very similar problem with mine. Dell has been getting me to run many tests and everything looks fine. But nothing is fine it crashes many times a day, I used to get a blue screen but that has stopped and now it just randomly reboots. Nothing Dell has suggested has fixed this problem for me. I bought this pc to be high end and my old pc worked better and was more stable. I wasn't afraid to do something and lose data, now I don't even want to log into a game because it's useless to. As for the support, well everyone is nice enough just not knowledgeable enough to solve my problem yet. I hope that you get yours fixed
  • TurboShane

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    Posted January 28th, 2008 18:00

    Disable nTune in your bios and don't use CoreTemp. See if that makes it any better.
  • Gary9895

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    Posted January 28th, 2008 18:00

    Random reboots are all I seem to be getting as well now ... Most anoying ... Will phaff about with settings later ;o(
  • Davet50

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    Posted January 28th, 2008 19:00



    TurboShane wrote:
    Disable nTune in your bios and don't use CoreTemp. See if that makes it any better.



    there is no ntune in the bios ntune is a addon program that you manual install yourself..
  • Ehun

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    Posted January 29th, 2008 17:00

    I literally had just posted this message and was scrolling down the thread to make sure it posted correctly when I blue-screened:
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    After rebooting Windows detected that something went wrong and gave me this:
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    After submitting an error report, it redirected me to a page that said:
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    This problem was caused by an error in your computer's random access memory (RAM). Microsoft is unable to determine if this problem was caused by a hardware or software issue, although this type of problem is usually caused by hardware.
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    Posted January 29th, 2008 17:00

    This sounds very familiar.. I posted a thread about my machine and similar behavior.

    I have come up empty-handed as to the cause of this, and I'm beginning to wonder if it's just a bad motherboard since it happens when I strip out most of my hardware.