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4th July 2008, 10:23 PM
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Kryt, I think you are on the right lines with starforce, or something like that. The fact that it only happens in 1 game is a bit suspicious.
Ctuchik, download & run this and see if it finds anything. StarForce Drivers Removal
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4th July 2008, 10:34 PM
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surely if its new and its playing up send it back
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4th July 2008, 10:48 PM
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Simple, Moriath, but a very good point
 Update drivers first by all means, get rid of DT and Starforce if applicable and see if it behaves. If not, back everything up you need and get it changed  Saying that, just looked up on Metaboli : there's a lot of starforce floating around it's distributed software. Hit Inactionman's link and get rid
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4th July 2008, 11:12 PM
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got rid of starforce, uninstalled DT and updated the drivers you said and its still acting up :/
gonna head to my brother in law on sunday and clone my hard drive to one that he's got and see if that might help. if not i'm gonna pay the retailer a little visit.
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5th July 2008, 12:33 PM
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so just out of curiosity i did a better memtest today and after 25 minutes the PC shut off. so what the hell is going on here? the event log hints to a disc failure but the memtest actually shut the PC off...
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5th July 2008, 01:04 PM
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Strange, very strange.
I'd take it back, just thinking about your warranty. If it wasn't, I'd suggest unplugging HDD's and CD drive and trying again. Sounding rather like a dodgy motherboard, possibly power supply. At least you can rule out software issue, meaning you won't look like a prat taking it back to where you bought it.
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5th July 2008, 01:51 PM
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well i've been playing back and forth with the 2 ramsticks i have and the problem persists when playing a game. but i did notice my gfx card were kinda hot (read omgwtf?!?). so now i'm looking for a decent freeware heat monitor.
been trying google but i just end up downloading MBM wich hasent been updated in 4 years. /edit: nm found one. and it isnt looking that hot from what its listing wish i'd find one that worked with logitechs g15 as alt tabbing to check all the time isnt that accurate as the game kinda go sleep mode then. Last edited by Ctuchik; 5th July 2008 at 01:57 PM.
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5th July 2008, 02:09 PM
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heres how it looks when the game is minimized. add 5 - 10 degrees while playing or so i guess...
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...rgald/Heat.jpg /edit: hmm, temp3 just clawed its way past 60... and now temp2 is trying to 
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5th July 2008, 02:23 PM
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ok i'm fairly certain its a heat related issue now. had a stroke of luck last time i minimized it was just before the pc shut off. temp 2, 3 and core were all over 60 degrees with temp 2 just breaking 70.
so its probably my PC shutting down to save itself from melting. so no games for me untill monday when i can get new fans only thing thats bothering me is those ATAPI errors... and why did the PC shut down during memtest. is that generating that much heat aswell?
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5th July 2008, 02:49 PM
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Memtest will certainly heat things up, it's basically pushing as much data through your RAM as possible, heating up both ram and CPU.
60 isnt *that* hot, certainly not for a graphics card. Either way, you shouldn't have to spend monies on fixing something bought from a shop, it should work outright. Don't void your warranty.
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5th July 2008, 07:15 PM
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well i built the PC myself 6 months ago so not sure if there still is a warranty. but either way i'm not gonna void it if there are one. i'm just trying to speed things up for them when/if i take it in.
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5th July 2008, 07:43 PM
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Ooooh I see, I was under the assumption it was a package system.
Either way 60 degrees isnt enough to make a system shut down - it will take nearly double that. Motherboard dodgy, power supply dodgy. Starting to suspect it may be the latter.
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5th July 2008, 07:58 PM
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well i've been running with a table fan as an extra cooling for a while while playing a game and now it "only" locked up my entire system >.<
didnt notice any increase in playing time before it happened either :/
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5th July 2008, 09:07 PM
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That's your problem right there. *runs*
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5th July 2008, 09:10 PM
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