Freeze Up. Hardware?

Jimothy

Jimothy

Jimothy

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A few months ago I upgraded most of the componants inside my ancient behemoth of a PC. HDD was reformated and everything seemed set to go.

Except, there seems to be a problem somewhere. My PC completely locks up at times. It has never frozen during gaming and has never exhibited any other bizaare behaviour. The problem seems to occur when I'm running iTunes and///or Firefox. I've gone for a clean install of Firefox and I'll attempt iTunes later this evening after work.

Are there any diagnostic tools available or perhaps an event/error logger?

Many thanks...
 
What hae you got in it? Sounds to me like software, if it is a hardware issue its most likely memory.
 
The system isn't over clocked.

I have the following hardware:

Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Intel Core 2 Duo E2140 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.60GHz (800FSB)
Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 (Socket 775) PCI-Express/AGP DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-5300C4 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit

These are all of the new componants, I kept the original HDD.
 
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Sorry but this problem still occurs. I checked my event logger and it returned an error relating to my ATI card. This kept appearing at every crash:

ati2mtag

Still trying to pinpoint what this error actually is, so far it appears to be random as to when it occurs. Running 6.5 drivers right now. Interestingly, using the 6.5 drivers eradicated the ati2mtag error appearing in my logger yet it still freezes when I browse with Firefox. Tried the latest too and a few inbetween. Used Driver Cleaner Pro to clear up any remnants. This really is beginning to irk me ...

Isolating events, only two error numbers consistantly appear at the time of the freeze: 6005 and 6009.
 
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Had the same problem with an Asrock board (939Dual-SATA2) a while back. Could run stress tests or games for hours and everything would be fine, but when not doing much to tax the system it would just freeze up at random... no BSOD, just a frozen screen that would require a hard reset. It would also immediately happen sometimes when connecting a USB device, such as a pen drive. Tried a couple of different PSUs, didn't fix it, so changed the motherboard for something else. Everything fine after that.
 
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