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Originally Posted by Bifta
I tend to get the same with any new card I get, whether it's ATI -> ATI or not. I normally uninstall the driver, DON'T reboot, run driver cleaner, remove all traces of the original drivers, then reboot, disable my internet connection so windows doesn't try installing any default driver files and then install the new drivers.
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I did that but still the same problem, which can always be reproduced by joining a server, selecting the weapon and spawn, then it will do a hard lock like type 3 in Zingle's link.
I've not had an issue in any other games (or BF2 offline) apart from CoD where the video freezes but I can still talk to people on Teamspeak.
HL2, Colin McCrae 4, CS:Source and Doom 3 all run fine at very high quality settings so it's not overheating.
It's unlikely to be a power issue either TBH - the rails on the PSU look stable as a rock, even when running HL2 at 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF.
I also ran the CD version of Memtest for 1hr 20mins while out shopping and had no errors at all.
Personally I think it's the mobo again.
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Things can become even worse, if for some reason the video chips stops retrieving commands from the AGP pipeline. Then the temporary CPU stall becomes a permanent one. Since the CPU isn't allowed to execute new program instructions, it cannot respond to keystrokes, mouse clicks and the like. Even the sound card's interrupts won't be honored. That usually causes a sound card to repeat its most recently loaded sound fragment over and over again.
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This describes it perfectly.