BIG problem doing my head in.

eracer2006

eracer2006

eracer2006

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my pc keeps freezing, its only a week old, built by myself (and it didnt work) then built by a professional who had to do things such as dremelling the TT120 to make it fit the cpu :rolleyes:

Now it keeps freezing, freezing to the point of rebooting at which point it wont POST just sits there for xxx amount of hours with all the fans on full, the only way to get it working is to clear the CMOS.

now thats ok, apart from i have to take out the gfx card to get to the cmos.

so its annoying that its doing this every 6 hours or so, ive had it a week and only been able to play it 4 days!

it doesnt matter if its standard (slow) or a moderate overclock or full overclock, it still does the same thing.

It only does it when your not playing a game, when the screensaver comes on, when you leave it idle, or when your doing menial tasks such as unzipping small files. it NEVER does it in a game.

Im so wound up by it my old rubbish computer was far more reliable.

specs

ocz gamestream 600w psu
TT120
Conroe e6300
gigabyte 965P S3
antec 900
2gb of GeiL pc6400
radeon 1950 xt

note when it boots the display doesnt come on. none of the keyboard lights light up, but wierdly this time one of them has done, the pc is turned off yet the keyboard light is STILL on :confused:

any help would be greatly appreciated before i ebay all the parts waste 500 quid and start again!
 
yup, not reformatted drive though.

cant see how it can be a windows problem already ? though that would explain why msn wont work and i cant click links.
 
ok now running DS3 F7.

I have 1 sata hdd and one IDE DVDRW. So i think i can rule that out!

Im going to leave it as standard fsb and standard clock speed for now.
 
i was to tempted to oc it.

same problem :mad:

so reset cmos and now running at 2.1ghz which i suppose is better than 1.8.

thinking it might be a bad install, as it only does it when loading windows or in windows, and not when playing games etc.

bit concerned where people state a c2d xp setup takes under 20 mins, mine took over 2 hours!
 
i wasnt, i am now cos ive just reset the bios agian.

found out the screw holding the soundcard in was threaded, so it kept falling out a little bit. i pushed it back in to test what happens and guess what, it locked up and needed cmos reset!

so moved it to another slot and it locked up again! my fault this time, forgot to plug in the cpu fan :mad:

seems ok so far now.

question: why if i reset the cmos by taking the battery out, does it ONLY WORK if i take out the graphics card at the same time ?
 
ok ive got only one more thing i can try, reinstall windows. with full reformat.

cos i got it working, stable, stock speeds, started playing farcry, got as far as when he pics up his first gun and it crashed, with the subwoofer making pulsing noises :confused:

reset and guess what, now have to reset cmos, i really dont understand why it wont just reboot normally after a GAME locks up ?

nor do i understand why if i reset the cmos without taking out the gfx card, it does the same thing when i boot it up :confused:

anyway ive unplugged it and im going to ebay it all and buy an xbox 360 i think.
 
the pc wont post without the soundcard in.

ive reset the cmos and if the same soundcard isnt in a slot it just wont post :confused:

so i dont have much choice there do i!


the temps are stable both in bios and on TAT.
 
the system never beeps!

i get

CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE. that msg has only just started coming up, and the lockups are getting worse and worse.
 
why would a sata hdd run in ide mode ? lol

ive had it playing games and running for hours on end in the past, and then it just hangs and have to reset cmos to clear the problem.

recently its getting worse and worse, now i can barely boot before it happens, i think its windows but i dont want it to happen halfway through installing it!
 
thankyou.

i do have something wierd that there all the time, a pci device with a little yellow question mark next to it, everytime i boot it says install new hardware, finds nothing, and theres nothing to install ?
 
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