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Steve Evans - 18 Jun 2005 20:36 GMT

Have any of you guys experienced a crash whilst playing DM, where the
display freezes, the sound goes into a loop and the only way out is
the reset button?
I wouldn't have said it was heat or psu related because it can happen
from a few minutes to over an hour into a game, or sometimes not at
all - plus, it's bloody hot here in the uk and it *was* running for an
hour before it crashed. Whilst on the subject of heat, I have noticed
that the graphics card gets hot to the point that I wouldn't be able
to keep a fingertip on the ram chips indefinitely when running 3d
mode!
Any help muchos appreciatos....

Spec:
A64 3200
1G Corsair pc3200
Abit av8
9800 pro + arctic cooler on max speed
Tried cats 4.12 and 5.5, no difference

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McGrandpa - 19 Jun 2005 00:25 GMT

> Have any of you guys experienced a crash whilst playing DM, where the
> display freezes, the sound goes into a loop and the only way out is
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> 9800 pro + arctic cooler on max speed
> Tried cats 4.12 and 5.5, no difference

I've just today started having the same thing happen. Only way out is
RESET on the front panel. I can hear XP making the crashing programs
sound...several times. It isn't just HL2DM. Something else is shutting
it down hard. Are you also running Zone Alarm? AVG Pro 7? Trojan
Hunter 4?
McG.

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Civilian_Target - 20 Jun 2005 13:46 GMT

Take a look at the capacitors on your motherboard - see if there's
residue beneath them. Also, check your temps with aida32....

Civilian_Target

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Gary - 24 Jun 2005 17:36 GMT

> Have any of you guys experienced a crash whilst playing DM, where the
> display freezes, the sound goes into a loop and the only way out is
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> 9800 pro + arctic cooler on max speed
> Tried cats 4.12 and 5.5, no difference

I have a similar spec to you and the same problem. Do you have a
Soundblaster sound card? There's a suggestion on Steam's support pages that
this behaviour can be caused if you have a SB card in PCI slot too far from
the video card, i.e. move it to slot 1 or 2. Having said that, I tried this
and it didn't resolve it for me :( If you do get a solution please post
it!!! Out of interest how often does the problem happen on your PC?

Gary

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Steve Evans - 26 Jun 2005 01:26 GMT

>> Have any of you guys experienced a crash whilst playing DM, where the
>> display freezes, the sound goes into a loop and the only way out is
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>
>Gary

I *have* a soundblaster but it's sitting on the shelf now that I have
onboard AC97 sound. Experienced the problem again today, and that's
with an older nvidia card - the 9800 gave up last week, probably due
to the scorching weather we've had in the UK :/

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KCB - 27 Jun 2005 04:20 GMT

>>> Have any of you guys experienced a crash whilst playing DM, where the
>>> display freezes, the sound goes into a loop and the only way out is
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> with an older nvidia card - the 9800 gave up last week, probably due
> to the scorching weather we've had in the UK :/

I'm curious, what is _scorching_ in the UK?

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Shawk - 27 Jun 2005 05:29 GMT

>>>> Have any of you guys experienced a crash whilst playing DM, where the
>>>> display freezes, the sound goes into a loop and the only way out is
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> I'm curious, what is _scorching_ in the UK?

30 degrees LOL :-)

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