AMD Problems
@christophermaloth (19)
India
March 12, 2007 11:30am CST
I am using a AMD 3200 with 1 Geg RAM. My problem is, my system crashes (goes off in between applications) I have an NVIDIA onboard display card, and the applications are like Simcity, which my son plays a lot. This problem has started recently. Can someone give me a clue to what might be wrong?
5 responses
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
12 Mar 07
Well if it's happening with games like Simcity, then your graphics are most likely the problem. When the computer crashes, does it restart? If so then your video card is getting overloaded. You could try lowering the settings on your games since they don't always detect onboard video too well, or you could allocate more RAM to your video card, or you could upgrade to a real video card.
Nvidia is great but that onboard video is still taking juice out of your processor and system RAM. An independant card will greatly increase performance. By the way, what NVidia graphics controller do you have? Geforce 4 MX, Geforce 6100, or Geforce 6150?
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@christophermaloth (19)
• India
12 Mar 07
Thank you so much for your resonse. I am using Geforce 6100, and I have already done all the tweaking, and yes the fans are working perfectly. I have a feeling it has to do something with the OS(WIN XP) because all the other programmes fine.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
12 Mar 07
Well the GeForce 6100 is pretty solid for onboard video. If you've done all the tweaking I mentioned and it hasn't fixed your problem there may be a driver conflict. Does your computer restart when it crashes? Do you ever get a blue screen? Have you checked your error log? Typically driver conflicts will be logged so you can check the problem. Try reinstalling or updating your chipset drivers including video. Then try reinstalling the Simcity and any other games having this problem.
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@mylovejeet (24)
• India
12 Mar 07
you may have software problem.
which operating system u have.
may be virus in hard disc.
@christophermaloth (19)
• India
12 Mar 07
Thank you for your response. I am using Windows XP, and my antivirus is Avaste.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
13 Mar 07
Most problems with NVidia are with AMD systems? Where did you get that from? Are you basing that on the fact that AMD uses more Nvidia chipsets than Intel? After all, Intel prefers to manufacture their own chipsets, something AMD will start doing soon. I really think you're just making this up though.
@Phlamingho (7824)
• Denmark
12 Mar 07
AMD CPU with onboard card... Could very easily be a overheatning problem. Check your fan, is it working properly?
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@christophermaloth (19)
• India
12 Mar 07
Thank you for the response, even I thought it was an overheating problem, but all the fans are working perfectly alright.
@AlexMasters (247)
• Philippines
13 Mar 07
Have you installed directx? And also you could try installing the latest driver from the Nvidia site. It happens when you don't have the right drivers, your system are more likely to crash. That is if it works well in other application
@usher8701 (29)
• Philippines
12 Mar 07
pls post your specs of ur pc.. from cpu, board, psu, brand of memory..... thanks....
do hav an separate video card? if yes what is the model... thanks
