Really weird problem

[magey]

All the games I have tried (Q4, NFSMW, farcry) all seem to work fine when my card is running at its stock speed (450/1050) but when I try and play any HL2 related game I get constant random crashing. This isnt crashing back to desktop or anything, but my monitor loses its display and my pc stops respoding but the PSU is still running. Before I had the Antec Truepower, I had a Neo HE 550w which also had the exact same problems which I am having now. The crashing stops when I underclock the card to 400/1050.

 

I have installed everything properly, all the 4 power connectors are in... the only thing I can pin point is that the XFX card I have has a 4pin molex instead of the usual 6pin PCI-E connector... but even then that shouldnt matter.

 

Tried different sticks of ram as well (GeIL and Corsair...all of which pass memtest running for 10 hours+) as well as only having 1 hdd plugged in (the boot drive)... still have the same problem.

 

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Cant really start overclocking when I cant even run my system stable at stock

[Xile]

The SAME exact thing happens to me... it just crashes for no reason when im playing HL2, DOD:S, or CS:S.

[magey]

Cant really see if being a software error though... :confused:

[FoxMcCloud]

magey this is happening to me to. After a few minutes of play my computers shuts down, restarts etc...

[sammuel]

http://www.xfxforce.com/forums/thread.jspa...D=1677&tstart=0