COD4 Crashes

[Miker]

Random times, maybe twice a day my PC randomly reboots... Ideas? Should I set up CPU volts and see if it is a OC right on the edge?

[Xero (1)ne]

If you feel comfortable giving your CPU just a tad more juice then I say go for it. I had to do it once. If it doesn't solve the problem try memtesting. You can also check the error logs for Windows to see what the problem could have been.

[Miker]

How do I look at error logs?

[werty316]

What kind of crash? Does it reboot with or without BSOD?

Does it crash when you CPU is not overclocked?

If its a BSOD go into your Control Panel and uncheck this option as highlighted:
http://i25.tinypic.com/30hypes.png

[Miker]

Just a random reboot, no BSOD, no nothing. If I don't OC my PC I don't think COD4 would even load. Remember how slow my POS is.

[Sadasius]

I would say it is your ram running a 1:1 with your overclock. See if you can manually set your ram to 200mhz and see if that solves the problem.

[werty316]

Just a random reboot, no BSOD, no nothing. If I don't OC my PC I don't think COD4 would even load. Remember how slow my POS is.
Your CPU going from 3.4Ghz to 3.7Gz won't make a huge difference so give it a try... either try that or increase the vCore or give Prime95 a few hours if you suspect its an unstable CPU overclock.

[Miker]

When I overclocked Memtest and OCCT where fine. I run ORTHOS all night tonight.

[werty316]

Oh gawd, how hard is it to run everything at their stock clocks to see if your overclock is unstable?

Remember to run one memory stick at a time when running memtest.

[Miker]

Run both sticks. If you get a error, run one.

[Miker]

Every test I threw at it failed, I think it is the RAM.

CPU only ORTHOS test failed too, I set up volts to 1.6v. Memtest failed all night.

Failed at 1.6, going back to stock CPU.

Everything stock, set RAM timings high.

[mivanx77]

Keep your RAM timings the at stock speeds and try memtest again. If it continues to fail, I suggest to RMA it, then, if you have any, use another RAM and see if it continues to BSOD.

[Miker]

At 100% stock it is ok, but I do think I have bad RAM. At 2-3-3-6 stock speeds it doesn't run, I have to set them up higher. But at 5:4 3.7GHz CPU, 3-3-3-8 it still doesn't run.