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jaimesilta
Profile Joined October 2011
16 Posts
November 09 2011 16:39 GMT
#1
Hi, the problem is as stated in the title.
i7 2600, sparkle gtx 570, 8 gb of ram, new heatsink that keeps cpu below 40, gpu running at no more than 50.
I don't know what to do at this point, I could reinstall windows, which I've done before, but that's never fixed the problem. Could it be my Mobo? I have 4 different sticks of ram and swap them around, I'm pretty sure the ram is fine. My computer never does it when I'm not playing video games, and starcraft 2 is the only game I actually play. Even if I play on medium graphics it restarts on me. Why god?
Remb
Profile Joined August 2011
United States190 Posts
November 09 2011 16:40 GMT
#2
Go to the Tech Support forum
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/index.php?show_part=46
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TheToast
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4808 Posts
November 09 2011 16:41 GMT
#3
PM a mod and ask them to move this to Tech Support.

Then read the Tech Support Forum Guidelines: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=278114

Update the OP with the necessary info to make sure you get assistance.
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Profile Joined March 2006
Netherlands19135 Posts
November 09 2011 17:07 GMT
#4
Moved.
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Taefox
Profile Joined March 2010
1533 Posts
November 09 2011 18:34 GMT
#5
Looking into My documents/Starcraft II/Variables.txt file and add :

frameratecap=60
frameratecapglue=30

Save it

beside, run virus-scan, check the processes for any programs which conflict with SC2 ( Google n download ProcessXP, it's useful ). Your computer restarted while playing or just running SC2 ?
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etherwar
Profile Joined December 2010
United States45 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-09 19:03:26
November 09 2011 19:02 GMT
#6
When my computer rebooted spontaneously when the graphics card came under load, it was because my PSU wasn't pumping enough wattage. How many watts does your power supply push, can you try using different power connectors from the PSU to the graphics card?
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Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
November 09 2011 19:10 GMT
#7
What's your power supply?
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Sansai
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria188 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-09 20:04:55
November 09 2011 20:03 GMT
#8
-nvm-
jaimesilta
Profile Joined October 2011
16 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-10 00:59:06
November 10 2011 00:58 GMT
#9
950w diablotek. sorry i didnt know there was a tech support.
trying that program and the suggestions thusfar. and its like a few mins into games of sc2, i can load it and stuff. on occasion i can play full games.
jaimesilta
Profile Joined October 2011
16 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-10 02:44:54
November 10 2011 01:02 GMT
#10
Switched around power cables to everything possible. Issue still occurring
jaimesilta
Profile Joined October 2011
16 Posts
November 10 2011 02:44 GMT
#11
I'm thinking its not an overheating or power problem because I just ran furmark and prime95 with my gpu and cpu going at 100% for about 10 mins, definitely not gonna get worse from sc2, I don't know why the psu would fail when putting out less juice,

so I'm thinking it's software related.

Maybe drivers, or maybe some issue with one of my hard drives?
jaj22
Profile Joined September 2009
United Kingdom1376 Posts
November 10 2011 05:39 GMT
#12
Software is possible (triple fault) although rare for restarts these days. It'd have to be a very broken driver. You could narrow that down by disabling sound and running games against AI (to rule out network drivers). AV software is always a possibility, although that's an unusual failure mode. You'd need to uninstall it completely - just "turning it off" tends to leave all the services active.

Could also be a power-saving problem. Try disabling EIST, C3 and C6 in BIOS to check. Also disable anything that triggers VRM stages depending on load - Gigabyte call it EPU, everyone else probably has their own name. I'll assume that you're not daft enough to run with an overclock and complain about restarts.

Could still be a PSU problem but it'd have to be a transient issue. Can't prove that it's not without replacing the PSU. Could also be motherboard but other than the power-saving it's not likely to be the cause if it's completely stable except when running games. Bad PCI-E transfers don't cause restarts on S1155.

jaimesilta
Profile Joined October 2011
16 Posts
November 10 2011 15:24 GMT
#13
I'll try disabling stuff in my BIOS like you said, also I'll turn off turbo boost to see if that helps.
I did run Crysis 2 without any crashes last night, if that makes a difference to anyone.
Ashby
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia204 Posts
November 10 2011 16:23 GMT
#14
I would run a virus scan, and if nothing is suspicious, then completely delete/reinstall SC2.

Once you have a fresh install of SC2, if it still crashes then you can be pretty confident that the SC2 software is not the issue, but either something else software/hardware related.
http://sc2sig.com/s/sea/30597-1.png?1307082433
jaimesilta
Profile Joined October 2011
16 Posts
November 10 2011 21:15 GMT
#15
i'm reinstalling right now, updating my audio driver too.
i got this list of drivers from my uninstall menu screen, not all, but I figure might point something out

Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller Driver
NVIDIA PhysX System Software 9.10.0514
NVIDIA Graphics Driver 275.33
NEC Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller Driver
marvell 91xx console driver
JMicron JMB36X Driver

should i remove one of the host controller drivers? if so which one?
jaimesilta
Profile Joined October 2011
16 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-11 01:07:55
November 11 2011 01:07 GMT
#16
Reinstalled, updated audio drivers, worked for about 2 hours then restarting again.
I noticed that the game had my email address already entered.
I'm stumped though
Windows 7 64-bit if I didn't mention
boobalotcha
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada54 Posts
November 11 2011 01:40 GMT
#17
I had this problem too with starcraft and it turned out to be a problem caused by a setting on my mobo. try looking for a setting in your bios called Load-Line Calibration and set it to High and also PLL Overvoltage and set that to disabled.
jaimesilta
Profile Joined October 2011
16 Posts
November 11 2011 03:05 GMT
#18
Ok so I've changed all the motherboard settings, looking for clarification on how to check driver compatibility and I'm going to test it when I have time so idk if any response is even necessary.
I'd like to thank everyone who has replied so far nonetheless. I appreciate all the help.
jaimesilta
Profile Joined October 2011
16 Posts
November 11 2011 20:21 GMT
#19
still restarting. So it could be a power supply problem? even with it not restarting during crysis 2 or the stress tests? Any other bios settings other than Load-Line Calibration high, Pll overvoltage disabled, Eist c3 c6 off
Any compatibility tests i can do?
Eisregen
Profile Joined September 2011
Germany967 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-11 20:27:21
November 11 2011 20:25 GMT
#20
Did you try using only 2 ram slots (4gb)? You can turn off the automatic reboot on error. Should be an option in the save and restore(hopefully thats the vorrect wording in the engl. Win7 version) section. With that you will get a bluescreen and maybe get a hint of what is causing the reboot.

Edit: Concerning a maybe Powersupply problem, you actually would need another PSU OR if you have much stuff attached to your PSU like opticl drives etc, pulling em out and just use the stuff needed on the PSU.
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