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Sumpfman
13 years ago
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random freeze and complete lockup (PC)

Problem: At a random point while playing the game online on punkbuster secured servers (mostly after 15 - 60 minutes) the screen goes black, the screen LED starts blinking and the complete machine l...
battlefield 3
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    Sumpfman
    13 years ago

    I have been playing for two weeks straight now without any lockups.

    So what has fixed all of this?

    - windows power management (disable pcie and cpu power savings - especially for Z77 boards, because they do power management on their own)

    - repairing each and every c++ & .net runtime installed on the machine

    - re-installing the game

    - installing latest AMD 12.9 beta drivers

    - manually updating nvidia physx

    along with the stuff mentioned above, here's the additional thing that finally fixed it for me:

    - uninstalling, completely removing, wiping everything that monitors voltages and settings like that from my pc.

    (speaking of: ASUS AI SUITE, MSI AFTERBURNER, SAPPHIRE TRIXX and so on...)

    In conlusion the black screen errors can be caused by almost everything that we fixed throughout this thread and it's finally gone.

    I'd like to take a minute and thank you guys, I really apprechiate your help and I owe you one!

    In addition I can now reproduce blackscreen lockups by for example enabling pcie-power saving in windows or installing ASUS AI SUITE and other power-monitoring stuff.

    And here's the reason why: From time to time there are negative readings recorded for GPU Voltages on 7xxxx GPUs and this is what seemingly causes the crashes when using those software components, that were originally intended to help you.

     

    Again: Thank you guys!!

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d4isycutter
13 years ago

deleted, nothing for n00beris to plagiarise

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Sumpfman
13 years ago

hey guys,

just a quick update: I'm playing for 2 hours straight now and will report back later if it locked up or not.

Regards,

Sumpfman

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    Sumpfman
    13 years ago

    ... aaand it completely locked up again. *sigh*

    • Sumpfman's avatar
      Sumpfman
      13 years ago

      I have been playing for two weeks straight now without any lockups.

      So what has fixed all of this?

      - windows power management (disable pcie and cpu power savings - especially for Z77 boards, because they do power management on their own)

      - repairing each and every c++ & .net runtime installed on the machine

      - re-installing the game

      - installing latest AMD 12.9 beta drivers

      - manually updating nvidia physx

      along with the stuff mentioned above, here's the additional thing that finally fixed it for me:

      - uninstalling, completely removing, wiping everything that monitors voltages and settings like that from my pc.

      (speaking of: ASUS AI SUITE, MSI AFTERBURNER, SAPPHIRE TRIXX and so on...)

      In conlusion the black screen errors can be caused by almost everything that we fixed throughout this thread and it's finally gone.

      I'd like to take a minute and thank you guys, I really apprechiate your help and I owe you one!

      In addition I can now reproduce blackscreen lockups by for example enabling pcie-power saving in windows or installing ASUS AI SUITE and other power-monitoring stuff.

      And here's the reason why: From time to time there are negative readings recorded for GPU Voltages on 7xxxx GPUs and this is what seemingly causes the crashes when using those software components, that were originally intended to help you.

       

      Again: Thank you guys!!

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