PC Freeze, Horizontal lines.

[careface]

Hi, I recently built a new PC.
Every once in a while in games(cs,css,portal,RF,SRO,etc) RANDOMly my PC freezes, and These weird horizontal lines appear in the color of what was on the screen before it froze.

I thought maybe it might be the GPU? my drivers are up to date.
I use HWmonitor and the temps are at MOST these:
CPU:56°C
GPU:69°C
HDD:54°C

my build is:
Asus P5Q SE Plus
Intel C2D E8400 @ default
G.SKiLL 4GB(2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz
PNY 9800GTX+ 512MB
Antec 850W PSU
WD 500GB 7200RPM 3GB/s
All in a Antec900 case, and win XP 32-bit OS(SP3)

I have no clue what might be causing it, but within the 3 weeks I had this PC, it happaned 3 times. All while gaming(first in cs, then portal, then in cs again) and cs 1.6 REALLY isn't something that should overheat the GPU :p

Thank you very much for any help in advance.

[shadowpr]

Hmm. Those are all steam games I believe. Have you checked to see if they have any updates or patches available?

Might want to try older drivers, or beta drivers as well.

[careface]

Hmm. Those are all steam games I believe. Have you checked to see if they have any updates or patches available?

Might want to try older drivers, or beta drivers as well.


I looked at some older drivers, but looking at the change logs it seems that I will have much more problems with older drivers. It does seem that this is a GPU problem right?

I want to see if this keep happening, if it does I want to put in my old 7600GT from my old PC. then we would know if it's the GPU or something else.

[shadowpr]

It sounds like either a driver problem, game problem, or a video card problem.

Changing those should lead to the answer. If it happens with different drivers, then most likely not a driver problem. If it happens with different games, then not a game problem. Next would be to try a different video card.