On Saturday, I was playing BF2 with a friend, and my entire PC froze mid-game. I hit the restart button, and it POSTed like normal but when it got to the windows loading screen, it restarted and just kept loading/restarting/loading/restarting/etc. After a few tries to get into windows, I decide to reinstall. That night and all into Sunday I wiped the drive then reinstalled everything, and it seemed to work fine.
Later that night I started a new game of Crysis. Before the opening cutscene in the plane can finish, my audio goes apeshit and lets out this ringing noise. I ctrl+alt+del out of it, but then it froze and did exactly the same thing as it did the night before - it got stuck in a restart loop.
The next afternoon (Monday) I started it up and it works fine. I surfed the net, listened to music and it didn't have any problems. I start up BF2 and play for a while but mid game, just like on Saturday, it freezes up and when I restart it can't get into windows.
It's now Tuesday night and there hasn't been any improvement. Every time I start it up, it gets up to the windows loading screen and restarts. The last time I had a problem like this was when I had an unstable CPU overclock, but I'm currently running stocks speeds across all componants and on the last occasion I wasn't stopped from getting back into windows.
I've reinstalled, cleared the CMOS and a memory test has come up clean. The problem only seemed to occur under load (fine for net surfing, but screwing up after a round of BF2 or 5 mins of Crysis), but I don't think it's heat - heat shouldn't cause the computer to go into a restart loop.
Any ideas? I really don't want to have to take it to a PC shop and pay $50 to be told "u need new comp lul".
EDIT: I forgot to add that the computer will boot up in safe mode with no probs, but not regular windows.
Later that night I started a new game of Crysis. Before the opening cutscene in the plane can finish, my audio goes apeshit and lets out this ringing noise. I ctrl+alt+del out of it, but then it froze and did exactly the same thing as it did the night before - it got stuck in a restart loop.
The next afternoon (Monday) I started it up and it works fine. I surfed the net, listened to music and it didn't have any problems. I start up BF2 and play for a while but mid game, just like on Saturday, it freezes up and when I restart it can't get into windows.
It's now Tuesday night and there hasn't been any improvement. Every time I start it up, it gets up to the windows loading screen and restarts. The last time I had a problem like this was when I had an unstable CPU overclock, but I'm currently running stocks speeds across all componants and on the last occasion I wasn't stopped from getting back into windows.
I've reinstalled, cleared the CMOS and a memory test has come up clean. The problem only seemed to occur under load (fine for net surfing, but screwing up after a round of BF2 or 5 mins of Crysis), but I don't think it's heat - heat shouldn't cause the computer to go into a restart loop.
Any ideas? I really don't want to have to take it to a PC shop and pay $50 to be told "u need new comp lul".
EDIT: I forgot to add that the computer will boot up in safe mode with no probs, but not regular windows.
Last edited by Sup3r_Dr4gon (2008-05-20 06:13:04)
