CPU Crashing on Standard Clock Speeds???

[General_Chris]

hey guys i ran intro a new problem again i was playing somen nfs undercover i had it on pause when i was down stairs and then i was upstairs 30 mins later and my game crashed saying nfs.exe has encountered a error and needs to close my dvd burner stopped working also the day before and its now my cpu what the hell is going on with my rig please help

 

[fruityness]

Need to try and narrow it down,

run MemTest86 and see if the memory is ok. Would be my first step.

Can run hdTune and see if all is ok with the hard drives.

click start, type in 'event viewer' and see if there is any more specific info on the crashes.

You have the usual suspects all sorted? Latest drivers for soundcard / VGA / motherboard? (maybe bios too).

 

[General_Chris]

the bios is from 2005 got the latest drivers for everything only not from the bios running prime95 now to check if its the cpu

EDIT it says this in event viewer

Application Error nfs.exe version 1.0.0.1 Crashed Module d3d9.dll version 5.3.2600.5512 crashed on 0x0008a50c

 

[Rastalovich]

nVidia drivers could be fudged.

 

[General_Chris]

u saw the error rastalovich?

 

[zak4994]

u saw the error rastalovich?

Yeah he did.

It says D3D9 as in Direct3D 9 or basically DirectX 9 which is related to graphics.

What driver you running on?

 

[lasher]

Heres the minimum spec....

looks for the ram details ive highlighted.

NEED FOR SPEED UNDERCOVER

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

OS: Windows XP/Vista

CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 3500+

RAM: 1GB MB RAM or higher (Windows Vista requires 2 GB RAM)

HDD: 10 GB free disk space or more

Graphics: 256 MB or higher (Pixel Shader 3.0, PCIe only) *

DirectX: Version 9.0c

RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS

OS: Windows XP/Vista

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD 64 X2 5200+ or AMD Phenom

RAM: 2GB MB RAM or higher (Windows Vista requires 3 GB RAM)

HDD: 10 GB free disk space or more

Graphics: 512 MB or higher (Pixel Shader 3.0, PCIe only) *

DirectX: Version 9.0c

ATI

Radeon X1600 series

Radeon X1800 series

Radeon X1900 series

Radeon HD 2400 series

Radeon HD 2600 series

Radeon HD 2900 series

Radeon HD 3000 series

Radeon HD 4000 series

NVIDIA

GeForce 7300 series

GeForce 7600 series

GeForce 7800 series

GeForce 7900 series

GeForce 8500 series

GeForce 8600 series

GeForce 8800 series

GeForce 9500 series

GeForce 9600 series

GeForce 9800 series

GeForce 200 series

***NOTE: Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but are not officially supported.

NVIDIA GeForce 6000 series not supported.

obv try drivers etc but looks like the system is falling over on drivers and possibly lack of resources.

How much pagefile is the system using or has available?

Did your Antivirus try to update?

Vista may have tried to start indexing/defragging if it fell into idle mode and swallowed a chunk of ram therefore kicking out the game?

Im no expert .. just offering friendly possibilities

 

[General_Chris]

it was related to the video drivers i installed older ones 178.24 and the problem dissapeared thanks guys for help

 

[Rastalovich]

I have a sneaky feeling that nVidia had recent-ishly released a set of drivers that were like the old 169.25 ones that crapped out alot.