- by yx
I've tried everything I can possibly think of in trying to fix this problem and I'm totally out of ideas, so any help would be appreciated:
The problem: whenever I fire up a game, it works for a short while with no problems and then it would crash. Either its a hard crash, forcing me to reboot, or windows would report that the display driver has stopped working and recovered. Here is a list of things I've already tried:
Drivers - tried the latest drivers (catalyst 9.12) as well as the stock drivers that came with the video card. Also have the latest BIOS/chipset
Memtest - Ran Memtest86+ overnight, had no problems, the windows diagnostic tool also does not find any problems.
Overheating - Video card/cpu temperatures are well below peak (42 and 31 Celsius receptively)
PSU Voltage - CPUID shows that the voltage levels are all above what they should be. The PSU itself is only roughly 16 months old and is a good model.
HDD - No errors when checked
GPU - Brand new (replaced previous card since I thought it was the problem, apparently not)
Overclocking - Everything is at stock levels, memory voltage is set to manufacturer's standard
Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q Pro
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 ghz
OS: Windows 7 home premium 64 bit
Memory: Mushkin Enhanced 4GB DDR2
GPU: Sapphire HD 5850 1GB
PSU: SeaSonic M12 600W ATX12V
DirectX: DX11
Event Viewer after a crash always has these logged:
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error
Processor ID: 1
The details view of this entry contains further information.
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error
Processor ID: 0
The details view of this entry contains further information.
A previous card that I had (4850x2) also had these errors, so I changed video cards, but the same thing is happening.
