Some of my games freeze

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:17 pm

When it happens I have to reboot, I can’t even ctrl, alt, delete. I have an Asus Maximus motherboard, four gigs or ram, it only reads three because I’m running WinXP 32 bit. Crucial Baistix with the LED ‘s. Slightly overclocked to 135 FSB. I’ve used Corsair ram and same problem.

Do you think it could be that I have four gigs of ram plugged into a 32 bit system?

I want to get this problem resolved, I have over 25 games installed.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:14 am

The 4 gigs of RAM with a 32 bit OS...no, that's not the problem. You can have 8 or more gigs worth of sticks in that system, won't cause a problem for a 32 bit OS...the OS will see what it can see, and simplly not see the rest.

Try bringing her down to default speeds.
Is the RAM type one that requires higher than stock voltage? Is it getting adequate voltage?
Latest BIOS?
Latest chipset/motherboard drivers
Latest video drivers, sound card
Run a checkdisk lately?
Is the virtual memory/pagefile set to "system managed"?
GPU cooling fan and heat sink on the video card functional? Clean?

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:02 pm

I have all the latest drivers, not certain about the bios. I have a 1024 set swap file. The GPU fans are clean and working. I’m going to set the FSB to stock speed and I’m going to run a check disc tonight.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:11 am

What games? Games in browser or loaded big games?

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:28 pm

Loaded big games, I haven't had a browser game freeze yet and I use IE.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:31 pm

I forgot to run check disc last night. Damn!

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:07 pm

I want ahead and ran Chkdsk but in the software it showed no errors in the software before the PC booted. After it booted it showed multiple errors in event viewer.

Does anyone know how I could zero fill this drive without wiping out the data that’s on the drive? I got this error,

The remaining of an USN page at offset 0x1ebcbda8 in file 0x2a5f0 should be filled with zeros.