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deepspacemillar

deepspacemillar

deepspacemillar

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Hi guys - first post :p

I have an oldish, cheap desktop that was bought a few years ago, never really worked wonderfully, but did the job.
Recently though, it's doing my nut in - the thing will freeze completely for a random length of time (usually over 15 mins) and it does this constantly. When it comes back from having frozen, it just carries on as if nothing happened - there's nothing in the windows logs, no error messages, nothing.
I've checked everything - BIOS settings, voltages, cables, temps/cooling, RAM, PSU load, OS... etc etc and none of it has made any difference whatsoever.
I've tried various flavours of Linux and several builds of windows 7, and a vista business trial I had - all had the same problem.

So, I'm kinda stuck. I'm currently searching around for a copy of windows XP (thats what it originally shipped with) to try that, but thats the only avenue I have left, and I would be amazed if that worked where everything else failed.

The computer has a no name PSU, pentium 4 640, a Foxconn RC4107MA motherboard (latest BIOS) and some older maxtor disks.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them! :(
 
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Download mem test and run that with each memory module's to check if there ok.
Download prime or Orthos to check for stability and check your hard disc manufacturer for any diagnostic software.

And welcome to the Forums, don't forget to check the FAQ ;)
 
Temps are about 30 system, 32 processor when idle.
I'm not too sure on the load temps, but processor never goes above mid-40's IIRC.

Also - thanks for the responses... I'll try memtest later when I get the chance. I'll try to run the stability tests, but I'm not sure how successful that will be given the constant freezes
Cheers
 
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