RENEGADE-623 Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 ok, this is really bugging me. I am on my home built puter, here are my puter specs:Intel core 2 quad 2.66 ghz4095 ddr2 ramwindows vista ultimate 64 bit OSNVIDEA GeForce 8800 GTS 640 meg memorydriver date 8/27/2007driver version 7.15.11.6230When I had beta it would do thie same thing til I had it run in windows xp sp2 mode, but now with the update I get into game and within the first 3 minutes my puter shuts off, no warnings. I tried the compatibility thing, didnt work. any suggestions? could it be the driver? this is the driver i downloaded today. Tried searching forums for same issue, no luck.ok, rolled back to old display driver version 7.15.11.5818 date 4/12/2007was doing it on that one too 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Volcano Posted April 9, 2009 Moderators Share Posted April 9, 2009 The computer completely powers down? Or SB closes to desktop? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENEGADE-623 Posted April 9, 2009 Author Share Posted April 9, 2009 computer shuts down, doesnt even do the shutdown thing just goes off, like have to turn it on again and get the windows didnt shut down properly screen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted April 9, 2009 Members Share Posted April 9, 2009 In any case, please run SB Pro PE in windowed mode to see if there is an error message lurking in the background.What about other games, maybe it is some sort of an emergency shutdown due to overheating? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENEGADE-623 Posted April 9, 2009 Author Share Posted April 9, 2009 ok, it not doing it at all in windowed mode, might just have to play it in window mode with it maxed out. will test it tongiht see if i can get it to do it again. I can play other games fine just not sb pro pe for some reason 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted April 9, 2009 Members Share Posted April 9, 2009 You could try and run it in fullscreen mode, then use Alt+Tab every other minute to see if something's going on. But I have no real clue here myself, I'm just suggesting random experiments to see if they produce a promising lead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENEGADE-623 Posted April 10, 2009 Author Share Posted April 10, 2009 Ok, little update. when i tried it in full screen mode, it would do it, in window mode, it didnt, til i left the window to open internet explorer. Maybe something to do with my system, I dont know. :confused: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee-66 Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Maybe a stupid idea here but could your video card be pulling too much power from your power source?The system I built here has a 1000 watt PS to power the two video cards in SLi. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENEGADE-623 Posted April 14, 2009 Author Share Posted April 14, 2009 I dont think so, I have a 1000 watt power supply and only one vid card. it doesnt do it so long as I play in windowed mode so will play like that. might be my op system, not sure tho. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee-66 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Ahh ok. I did a search on the problem, a couple of things came up. One could be the video card is overheating. Check to make sure the fan on the card is running. The other was your driver could be broken. Here is the newest one Apr. 02, 2009.http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_182.50_whql.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Monitor your system with this: http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.phpIt will help you determine if you got an overheating or voltage problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENEGADE-623 Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 thanx, will try that out. dont know why it overheating if it is, got like 4 fans on the dang system itself LOL Woah. just ran the speedfan. lot of flame icons guess gonna have to get me some more fans Ahh ok. I did a search on the problem, a couple of things came up. One could be the video card is overheating. Check to make sure the fan on the card is running. The other was your driver could be broken. Here is the newest one Apr. 02, 2009.http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_182.50_whql.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENEGADE-623 Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 welp, has to be overheating. new driver didnt fix it. will have to get some more fans installed I guess. For the time being it works in windowed mode so will go with that for now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee-66 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Check and make sure the video card fan didn't get unplugged somehow. Stranger things have happened. BTW who built your MB? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENEGADE-623 Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 the mb is an msi p7n platinum. the systrm i built 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee-66 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Nice looking MB. Forgive my endless questions please, but I was wondering do your fans plug into the MB or plug into the PSU plugs? If they plug into the PSU, could be the reason for the flame icons as the monitor software can't read those. It can only read the fans plugged into the MB. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENEGADE-623 Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 they plug into both 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee-66 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Did a search on your problem. Recieved some interresting information when I typed in: "msi p7n sli platinum shuts down while playing a game in full screen mode" seems last year that the NVidia NForce 750 series chipset was having some video corruption problems last year, you can go to the nvidia website and download the chipset drivers and see if that helps some. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=65855 Also found this website http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=126132.msg949962 that talks about the chipset overheating and someone gave a few other links that might help with that. http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=125496.0 http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=125786.0 Hope the sites have some information that might help. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENEGADE-623 Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 OK, update. checked graphics card fan, was working, took a fan out of old puter that was above grapghics card, and put it on this one where it is below it blowing air onto it. So far seems to be working. Hopefully will keep working, it been running now for good 7 minutes, 5 minutes longer than it has lasted before, and still going. letting it play through whole scenerio to see if it will stay working. looking good so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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