PC Help

[nightwalker]

Well just recently my PC died on me due to an electric shock in my house even the battery fried. Thank God I always keep my games unplugged all the time only when im gonna use them. Well here is my new rigg.

COOLER MASTER Stacker 830 Evolution RC-830-KKR3-GP Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case Real Power Pro 1000W Power Supply - Retail $379.99

MSI K9A2 Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $169.99

VisionTek 900202 Radeon HD 3870 512MB 256-bit GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail $249.99

Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM $174.99

COOLER MASTER RL-EUL-GBU1-GP Liquid Cooler supports Intel and AMD - Retail $74.99

AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor Model HD960ZWCGDBOX - Retail $239.99

Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model BL2KIT12864AL804 - Retail $74.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $119.99

Ok so whats my problem.....? Well its this

I play team fortress 2, all half life 2 and portal and they all run perfectly for countless hours on the highest settings. I installed bioshock and call of duty 4 (btw I got the original of those two) and they start fine once you begin to play 30 seconds in game the pc crashes the graphics get all distortion and the gpu temperature its at its normal for that card (3870hd) 53C. I even downloaded the new catalyst and install them but still the same problem. Has anybody had that same problem?

oh and another thing my memory only runs single channel and YES i put them just as the manual says for running in dual on slot 1 and 2 or slot 3 and 4 Ive put them on those slots and even 1,3 or 2 and 4 and nothing keeps telling me that it runs in single channel. Any suggestions on this one?

[ImportBoy]

First, have you updated your motherboard to the latest BIOS? If not, try that and see if you have the same problems.

Unfortuntly, I've heard nothing but bad things about the Phenom processor. Make sure you install whatever drivers/software are out there for the Phenom from AMD after upgrading the BIOS.

If a BIOS update doesn't fix your memory issues I'd suggest contacting MSI and see if they have a list of supported memory configurations. If yours are supported its possible there is an issue with your motherboard and/or RAM. I suggest you run memtest86 to make sure the RAM is ok.

Finally - what OS are you running? 32 or 64 bit? Make sure you get any updates availible for both those and games your having issues with.

[nightwalker]

Well Im running windows xp profesional 32 bit. I bought this processor since I had a athlon 64 and thats was one heck of a processor I bought the phenom and then I saw all the bad comments gonna try updating the bios. Lets see if that helps.

Thank you ImportBoy