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My friend is having a problem

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Cake Faice:
Every time he plays any game, at random, usually within 20-40 minutes, the game freezes, the sound loops every millisecond, and his whole computer locks up, thus forcing manual restart.

And I built his computer for him. We've tried switching out power supplies, changing memory slot positions, graphics cards, hard drives, using multiple -dxlevel tricks and the works of it. Yet nothing I can do will solve that issue. I'm starting to feel bad that he spent $900 by the parts I told him to get at our local electronics shop. Here's what we got:

550W PSU
ASUS Radeon HD 5770
Antec case
ASUS P8 P67 EVO motherboard
6GB of RAM
1TB Samsung hard drive
Windows 7 home edition

And yet his computer is fine without playing games, but once started, it starts the locking up stuff. Any suggestions?

Frank:
This happened to me when my PCI-E 16x got burnt.

Cake Faice:

--- Quote from: Frank on January 13, 2012, 07:21:38 PM ---This happened to me when my PCI-E 16x got burnt.

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Oh damn, haven't thought of that one. Usually the games run fine, Gmod goes up to 300fps, Source games around the same rate.

Frank:

--- Quote from: Cake Face on January 13, 2012, 07:43:17 PM ---Oh damn, haven't thought of that one. Usually the games run fine, Gmod goes up to 300fps, Source games around the same rate.

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Mine would work perfectly. Fucking fine beautifully. But it'd sometimes get so goddamned fucked up I'd smash my CRT monitor. That LG Studioworks 710e was a beast.

You could try running it WITHOUT the GPU.

If that way, the Pc runs perfectly, then it's definitely the slot.

Cake Faice:

--- Quote from: Frank on January 13, 2012, 07:48:22 PM ---Mine would work perfectly. Fucking fine beautifully. But it'd sometimes get so goddamned fucked up I'd smash my CRT monitor. That LG Studioworks 710e was a beast.

You could try running it WITHOUT the GPU.

If that way, the Pc runs perfectly, then it's definitely the slot.

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Alright, I'll tell him to try that suggestion. And if it turns out to be the case, hopefully the PC shop will exchange his mobo for the same exact thing.

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