Desktop Crashing

[voyagerfan99]

My rig (specs in sig) has just gone through an RMA nightmare. I was receiving constant video driver crashes. I thought it was the motherboard, but then it turned out to be the video card (or so I thought). Sent my mobo in to Gigabyte and they said it was fine. Sent my GPU to XFX and they also said it was fine, but they replaced the card for me anyway.

Got it all back together. Wiped my main HDD to prevent possible driver conflicts. Now during gaming I don't get driver crashes, but complete freezes (blank screen and scrambled sound) and then the computer does a hard reboot.

I don't have anything overclocked. Haven't monitored the GPU temps, but I'll game a little and report back on that.

Just so everyone knows everything I have in my rig:
2x 140MM fans (mobo headers)
2x 120MM fans (mobo headers)
1x 92mm CPU fan (mobo header)
Phenom II x4 965BE
8GB (4x2GB) G.Skill RAM (PC-10666)
HD6870
Creative Sound Blaster X-fi Titanium
500GB Caviar Black/250GB standard WD drive/1TB Samsung SetPoint
All powered by a 600W CoolerMaster SilentPro.

I'm wondering if 600W is too little

 

[StrangleHold]

Now during gaming I don't get driver crashes, but complete freezes (blank screen and scrambled sound) and then the computer does a hard reboot.


All powered by a 600W CoolerMaster SilentPro.

I'm wondering if 600W is too little

That sentence sounds like a power supply problem. 600W is not a problem, but it sounds like the 12V rail is dropping under load.

 

[diduknowthat]

I was going to say that too. The powersupply may be the problem. It could be giving out unstable power and thereby affecting the CPU.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Something I really wish I had tried before. Yanked out my sound card and was able to play Star Trek Online without an issue. I'm going to try some other games and see what happens.

 

[just a noob]

I had this same problem, finally upgraded my psu from the 610 watt silencer to a 1200 watt enermax and it stopped, but I also upgraded to windows 7 from xp, so it's kind of a crapshoot

 

[voyagerfan99]

It might have been a driver issue. I originally installed a newer driver for the X-fi, but then ran the install CD and also installed that driver as well. Doesn't matter to me, as onboard is perfectly fine as I'm only using 2 out of the 5 speakers in my 5.1 system anyway.