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Replaced motherboard, computer still semi-freezes after exiting game,

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Spoudazo

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Dec 12, 2005
Well, no more weird PCI-hardware quirks that I had with my old mobo, but I think I may have figured out something.

Ok, here is what my PC does.

I exit a game, and after exiting a game the computer seems to not switch from 3D to 2D mode. Like for example, in some games if you Alt-Tab out (I think Quake 4 does this), you can't click on any desktop items, but the mouse still moves around and is context sensitive to the icons it hovers over, but you can select anything.

So, doesn't that mean my PC, or more specifically, my graphics card is having problems switching from 3D back to 2D mode? I am using the old trusty 91.45 drivers from Nvidia, but others have done this as well.

So is this a GPU hardware issue? Card is a 7950gx2, and perhaps it's a weird quirk w/ the 7950gx2 and Intel motherboards? Tomorrow I plan on switching out for a little 6200 TC card from Nvidia, and testing it there.

Any advice?

I have tested the RAM, switched the DIMMs out, ran MemTest for 8 hours, switched motherboards (had other issues with it), etc.

Thanks!

(PS: It didn't do this yesterday when I was playing UT2004 and HL2, but it did it each time with BF2142).

New motherboard is the Asus P5b Deluxe Wifi, old one was a Gigabyte 965p-S3, currently the PC isn't overclocked.
 
Hmmm, after returning video card clocks (mem. and core) to stock settings, it doesn't do this anymore? :confused:
 
Whenever you are troubleshooting a problem it's best to return to stock settings as a first step to rule it out. It's quite apparent now that you had your card pushed beyond its limits of stability.
 
Spoudazo said:
Well, it used to do those settings just fine, I dunno.
Maybe its time to do some cleaning. Check for dust. But yeah, if returnign to stock fixes the problem, its pretty obvious that the card was being pushed too hard.
 
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