wtf

[Starr]

So I just paid like £500 for a new PC, 8.8 GHZ quad core, 512 MB DDR2 graphics card, so I could 2 box but it just crashes and says the Graphics card doesn't like it when my 3.2 GHZ 128 MB old PC worked... wut? Need to know why the fuck it's doing this cus I don't wanna have wasted money on it.

[Shuemue]

There's no such thing as an 8.8ghz pc for £500.

Where did you buy it?
What are the exact components?
Which OS?
What exactly happens and when, including error messages, beeps and all.

[Starr]

Case £66 PC world site
Graphics Card £120 some website
Mother Board £202 ebay
Power Supply £40 Maplins
etc=~£500

[Starr]

When I load one FFXI its fine, loaded second and they both crashed and shut down and it says ATI Graphics Error, gave up or something.

[Fallso]

Case £66 PC world site
Graphics Card £120 some website
Mother Board £202 ebay
Power Supply £40 Maplins
etc=~£500

But what are the exact components? like what make and model is your graphics card, make and model of processor etc

[Starr]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BUN-INTEL-AMD-Phe ... otohosting
ASRock ALIVENF5SLI-1394 Dual SLI PCI-E Motherboard
AMD Phenom64 Quad Core 9500 8.8Ghz CPU

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =GX-169-SP

[Shuemue]

Yeah, you need to be a lot more specific.

If you don't know how to tell us exactly what you've got, run and install Belarc Advisor and paste the report it generates to us.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

[Shuemue]

Intel AMD processor?

wtf?

[Starr]

I bought what my friend said would be good value for money and should 2box FFXI np, I don't know much about PCs.

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.20 gigahertz AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core
19712 kilobyte primary memory cache
19 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ALiveNF5SLI-1394
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. P1.20 11/13/2007
Drives Memory Modules c,d
122.93 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
106.25 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-212 [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Maxtor 6Y120L0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y35TN4RE, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes


c: (NTFS on drive 0) 122.93 GB 106.25 GB free
Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
Administrator 31/01/2008 16:48:01 (admin)
local system accounts
Guest never
HelpAssistant never
SUPPORT_388945a0 never

DISABLED Marks a disabled account; LOCKED OUT Marks a locked account

Microsoft Office Document Image Writer Driver on Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Port:
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller (2x)
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI Radeon HD 3850 [Display adapter]
Dell E151FPp [Monitor] (14.9"vis, s/n 4R8692CCN1M4, December 2002)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller ATI Function Driver for High Definition Audio - ATI AA01
C-Media CM6501 Like Sound Device
Standard Game Port
Communications Other Devices

1394 Net Adapter
NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
primary Auto IP Address: 77.96.41.116 / 22
Gateway: 77.96.40.1
Dhcp Server: 62.31.176.116
Physical Address: 00:19:66:57:26:66

Networking Dns Servers: 62.31.176.39
194.117.134.19
195.188.53.175
VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
USB Human Interface Device
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse
Microsoft PS/2 Mouse
NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator
Generic USB Hub
USB Composite Device
USB Root Hub (2x)

[Shuemue]

tbh that should have no problems really, it could do with another gig of ram, but not urgently.

Do you have the latest ATI drivers installed?

[Fallso]

Try putting the processes on different cores in taskmanager.

[Starr]

Newest updates installed and set core affinity of FFXI (Starr) on 3 and 4 then loaded POL again and:
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...UK/fuckoff.jpg

[Starr]

2 minutes later:
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...131_184859.png

Did I waste a load of money for no reason?

[Shuemue]

Could be running too hot, have you checked CPU and GPU temps?

[Starr]

um 84 degrees with FFXI and stuff up, that's bad isn't it?

[Shuemue]

If that's 84c, then yeah that's bad.

[Starr]

It was, do you really think it will work if I get another fan in there though?

[Shuemue]

Well, if airflow is that bad in your box, the video card is probably running hot too, and the extra strain of rendering 2x FFXI could be tipping the scales.

[Starr]

but it crashes when pol loads, does that take a lot of rendering?

[Undeadhunter]

Well, if airflow is that bad in your box, the video card is probably running hot too, and the extra strain of rendering 2x FFXI could be tipping the scales.

too bad ffxi doesn't actually use your video card that much so it shouldn't overheat from that, I think the problem is with the cooler on your grafix card