CS Crashing? :/

[Starburn]

Hmm curious...

Been trying out Counter-Strike on my new setup, and found it crashes (well it has both times I've played it up to now)..
The first I was playing for about 5mins then the monitor just went into standby and all sound stopped.
The second I was playing for about 30mins, then it froze up (sound looped) then after tapping Ctrl+Alt+Del a few times the monitor went into standby (dunno if it was me trying to reboot it or if it would of done that anyway)..
Both times I ended up having to reset my system.

My setup:
Win2k SP4
Epox 8RDA+ 1.1 (& latest BIOS)
XP2500+ @ 11x200
Corsair Value Select PC3200
Radeon 9800pro Cat 3.10's

Was running it in "High Detail" (ATI) & 1024x768.

Temps were about 45C for CPU, 31C system.

I've ran tonnes of benchmarks before installing CS (3DMark 01', 03', Aquamark, PCMark) quite a few times, without any sort of error/problem.
Ran prime 95 for nearly 2 hours with no errors, CPU reaching about 46C with fans on medium.
Also had SETI@Home (cmd line) running for over 2 hours with no problems.
As for games, I've played STEF II & America's Army (in ultra detail) both fine..

Help?

[Ammok]

you'll laugh at this but iit always proves a point, open up the side of the case, get a ten inch desk fan powered up at full, and play the game.

Noisy as hell but if your still playing after an hour your graphics card is overheating,

remove large desktop fan and run the processor at nominal fsb should cure your problem.

Crashes after with fan on? it's definately not temps.

works for me.

[Starburn]

I used to use a huge desktop fan with my case open back on my super-OC'd 1.2 years ago so I won't laugh.

I reckon it could be the NB/SB overheating looking at this...

gonna mod my nb cooler maybe, put a fan on it.

tho it still could be CS itself (dodgy steam )... so I'm about to run sisoft on network test loop (to stress the nb, onboard lan) whilst running 3dmark in demo (w/ sounds, onboard sound also).

[bblqj78]

I've had a couple of problems like that in the past from the following couple of problems....

sound drivers....installed new sound drivers (Audigy Player) and it fixed the problem on whatever game I was playing at the time...think it was HALO.

Not enough juice into the CPU...what Vcore are you on for that overclock...allthough this generally reset the computer.

Power supply...not enough juice to an overclocked system from 300W power supply. Is it powerful enough?

Just my experiences...you may be able to eliminate all of these.

[Starburn]

Latest nforce drivers (3.13) onboard sound.

Juice to cpu, default, to be precise 1.665v.. no resets or any other strange behavior so I thought it was fine.

350w Enermax PSU, no pci devices, no usb (just a mouse), onboard LAN/Sound.

I thought it could be NB/SB overheating... so I tried to stress them by running sisoft burn-in on LAN, looped & 3dMark 2001 w/sounds, high detail (ati) on loop...
left it running for about 1hour 45mins.
CPU temp was about 45c, system was 32c.
No crash, nothing.

Can I blame Steam/CS yet?

[fishybawb]

Originally posted by Starburn
Can I blame Steam/CS yet?

Yes

Steam's had it's problems. To rule anything else out, try either running at stock speeds or increase the VCore slightly to see if the problem repeats