I know a few of you play on-line gaming, we both play Cod4. A few weeks back we bought some new PC's.
The are identical machines as follows:
HP xw6000, dual processor 3.06ghz zeons, adequate graphics cards (nvidia 7600 GS) 3gb RAM, 460w PSU's
Whilst playing Cod4, one of them seems slightly more unreliable and crashes (completely freezes in game and requires a reboot!) (the other machine not so often). It never crashes in Windows although to be fair neither of us use Windows much for anything beyond the gaming as we have our Mac's - Thank f**k for that!!!!
Drivers have been updated and downgraded for just about everything.
Affinity has been set for both COD4 and PB to one CPU in case the support for SMP is not what it should be.
Temp's are being monitored and sit quite happily in the 40's C for the CPU's and 50's C for the GPU.
The only thing we can see is that that Punkbuster stops and restarts just before the PC crashes, viewable in the event log.
Any ideas anyone?
Many thanks