A Little Help?

NezzR

NezzR

NezzR

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So i have been putting up with this problem for quite a while now but its becoming a nuisance. My computer will randomly crash not blue screen but just die. The screen will freeze where it is and the only way to get around it is a manual reset. I have re installed windows a good few times and that doesn't help i have ran memtest86 and that never comes back with anything.

I recently upgraded my graphics card, cpu and psu but the problem was happening before this.

My current specs are

Phenom II X4 965 BE
Asus M4A78LT-M
8GB DDR3 @ 669MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7700
Seagate Barracuda ST3500412AS 500GB

If anyone could point out the problem or give me a hand that would be a massive help.

Thank you.
 
have you got anything to monitor your system temps?
what operating system are you using? as have you looked into the crash logs etc?
sometimes looking for system error logs can be a good port of call.

what case is your build in? good airflow? clean?

for me, a m/b bios update, then get all the latest drivers for everything.
check case airflow and cabling and system / case fan's then system temps at boot, when its been on a while and working at max when benchmarking it.

something like burn in test standard will do from passmark, that will get your pc working at max's and make it freeze quicker, so you can get a temp reading at least, then go from there, it could be a fault with a part but then again it maybe a cooling issue, a burn in test may put you in the right direction
 
Okay ill give that a go, i don't thing its anything to do with cooling as i have a haf x and its got pretty good airflow. I can play games like bf3 on ultra and it will be fine and then i could be in word and it will die on me. I've had days go by without the crash and then sometimes 5 in an hour.

Ill give your idea a go.

Thanks
 
So i gave the bios update a go and that and its not really changed anything. Is there any tools i can use to tell if its the hdd?
 
NezzR said:
So i gave the bios update a go and that and its not really changed anything. Is there any tools i can use to tell if its the hdd?
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Have you checked your CPU temps as per the previous advice?

ultimatebootcd is freeware utilities which can be downloaded - would imagine a utility to low level scan your Seagate HD will be amongst the available tools..
 
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So i have installed new ram and I'm still having this problem.

I've monitored my cpu temps for the last 3 days and it will crash under any temp. I'm idling at about 35c and medium loads around 42c.

Since this problem started i have upgraded Ram, CPU, GPU and PSU.

So i guess that narrows it down to my hdd or motherboard. I ran a few hdd checks but since they take a while to load i would always crash mid test. ill try again tonight but is this the only way to rule out its not my hdd?

Any further advice would be brilliant. Thanks
 
some errors are just a pain, they can be caused by drivers, i have known a pc which worked fine for ages then a vga card died, bought and installed a better spec same make amd card and updated drivers when it was installed on first boot only to have more errors than the pc had ever had since new, ended up reinstalling windows as just couldn't get rid of older drivers totaly from the system, pc has been fine since then, thought it was an irq or memory error but read on another forum that the old driver in use didn't uninstall totaly with a driver update and gave more than a few the same type of random errors, hard to find and even harder to fix, screen saver came on and sometimes pc would freeze, any power saving and pc would also lock up, and certain errors when doing odd things with the card like running a windows index score etc, nothing that you could nail down or alter too much, also tell everyone to update drivers as well, and it turned out to be that which caused all the errors in the first place.

now its add and remove all and clean reg before i install any new hardware, i've learnt my lesson
 
zakblood said:
some errors are just a pain, they can be caused by drivers, i have known a pc which worked fine for ages then a vga card died, bought and installed a better spec same make amd card and updated drivers when it was installed on first boot only to have more errors than the pc had ever had since new, ended up reinstalling windows as just couldn't get rid of older drivers totaly from the system, pc has been fine since then, thought it was an irq or memory error but read on another forum that the old driver in use didn't uninstall totaly with a driver update and gave more than a few the same type of random errors, hard to find and even harder to fix, screen saver came on and sometimes pc would freeze, any power saving and pc would also lock up, and certain errors when doing odd things with the card like running a windows index score etc, nothing that you could nail down or alter too much, also tell everyone to update drivers as well, and it turned out to be that which caused all the errors in the first place.

now its add and remove all and clean reg before i install any new hardware, i've learnt my lesson
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I've re-installed windows countless times. Always have the same error really don't know what to do about this atm.
 
When you last done an OS re-install, can you remember the last drivers or software you installed before it froze.
Also if you cannot check your hdd whilst in windows try using one of the disk check tools on UBCD. Download and burn to CD.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
 
It wasn't so much the latest i bought a new GPU, Mobo and HDD and it just started happening. The company i bought from went out of business so no returns were available.

since then i have replaced my CPU, GPU, Ram with upgrades so it can't be anything to do with them. I just wan't to know what it might be before i sink £80 into a new HDD or more into a mobo and it not work. I try using the UBCD tools but the computer dies before the check has ran its full course always.
 
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