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About 3 or 4 day's ago, while my roommate was playing a game on my computer that I had played plenty before, randomly hard froze. After rebooting and trying the game again, the same thing happened within a few minutes. I suggested to try a different game, and 2 game later I gathered that it wasn't something wrong with the games, it was my computer.
I'm running Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, Pentium 4 3.0 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, NVidia GeForce 8400GS Video card...
Gothic 3, and then Homefront(which was a new addition to my collection), and then Bioshock... Gothic 3 and Bioshock never had any problems before, but it seems like it's gonna do it sometime randomly during ANY game I try and play. Even windows Solitare is kind of glitchy
.. I have no idea what prompted this issue, or how to fix it, since I don't really know what's wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Skatr
Posted 2013-09-22T13:45:40.573
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Tell us the name of the game... – Jet – 2013-09-22T13:53:16.447
Gothic 3, and then Homefront(which was a new addition to my collection), and then Bioshock... Gothis 3 and Bioshock never had any problems before, but it seems like it's gonna do it sometime randomly during ANY game I try and play. Even windows Solitare is kind of glitchy... – Skatr – 2013-09-22T14:00:51.193
1This is a tough one because there are several possibilities. Any other info you have might help. OS version, hardware specs, etc. Are these fairly modern games with intense graphics? Might be something wrong with cooling of CPU or gpu. Might also just be faulty CPU gpu or ram. Try running a memtest for an hour or two to rule that out. – Neil Neyman – 2013-09-22T14:04:39.683
Oops ok didn't see your second comment before I sent mine. Solitaire is probably not overheating CPU. Still, start with a ram test then maybe some hdd diagnostic tools, antivirus scans. Until you come up with a problem. – Neil Neyman – 2013-09-22T14:07:55.823
Yes, Solitaire can't harm. But everything can harm when you restart PC with overheated hardware... – Jet – 2013-09-22T14:12:09.317
I'm running Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, Pentium 4 3.0 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, NEVIDEA GeForce 8400GS Video card... I guess the games are new-ish, but I know for sure that Bioshock didn't have any problems before all this started... I'm leaning towards and over heating probem, so I guess the next step is to turn it off and open up the tower for a good cleaning\wire check... – Skatr – 2013-09-22T14:14:29.553
How do I run a RAM test? – Skatr – 2013-09-22T14:16:57.817
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@skatr http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm burn iso as a bootable cd and let it run for a few hours. If it reports any errors you have a bad stick/set. Or win7 has a built-in one that's not as thorough but worth a try for starters.
– Neil Neyman – 2013-09-22T17:25:26.267@NeilNeyman Can I mount the ISO on a virtual drive and run it that way or do i have to burn it?? – Skatr – 2013-09-22T22:20:31.687
1It's supposed to boot from the cd. You can use a usb drive but I don't think you can boot a virtual drive. Needs to run without the os behind it. – Neil Neyman – 2013-09-22T22:44:26.497