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Old 4th Jan 2008, 00:34
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Hello all,

When I play certain games (Civilization IV, Need For Speed: Carbon) after around 15 minutes the game will crash, taking the entire computer with it. The sound will still be working, but the monitors will be in standby, and a few seconds later, the whole thing locks up.

I am using an HIS ATi Radeon X1950Pro (256mb PCI-E) graphics card with the latest Omega drivers. Tried reinstalling them, didn't help. Temperatures are fine, hardly get above 55.

Other games (Half-Life 2, America's Army) do not suffer from crashes.

The crashes are random but happen after similar periods of time. There is no warning before they happen, the game just dies.

Here are more entire specs:

AMD Opteron 175
2gb RAM (assorted brands)
430w PSU (SLI-certified)

So what is wrong? What should I do?
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Old 4th Jan 2008, 03:23
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Try running with one stick of RAM and swap around if no improvement, or better still try fresh RAM
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Old 5th Jan 2008, 13:17
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I ran Memtest86+ and there were no errors.
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