hardware problem . . .

khushy · 27 Feb 2009 at 14:12

right - here is my problem - my PC runs perfectly - right up until any media is playing or video/animated graphics are running - then, more often that not it freezes!

Unable to reboot safely - power off and start up!

When no media or video/graphics are running - it is perfect. It did not do this when I first built the pc - but it acquired this "bug" over a period of time and I cant attribute it to any particular install either - just reinstalled windows and its doing it again - now I have to work in silence ;-(

Spec -

ASUS Maximus Extreme
4Gb DDR3 RAM
4 x Raptors in RAID 10 on a SATA RAID Card
2 x WD 1TB's in RAID1 on another SATA RAID Card
4 x monitors on a Matrox QID LP PCIe Card
Windows XP Pro - with all updates installed

Khushy

95thrifles · 27 Feb 2009 at 14:45

Well it sounds like a gfx error, as its crashing under gfx load. What gfx card you got?
Have you checked temps during running by using GPU-z and logging to file? maybe the fan is failing?

khushy · 13 Mar 2009 at 16:18

well - since I backed down the RAM frequency from 1333 to Auto (and that is all I did) - no more freezing!

So what could that be - voltage - RAM failiure?

khushy

Guardsmon · 13 Mar 2009 at 16:56

yeh. Overclocking does make your system unstable... Probably just pushed it too high. Do some Prime95 on the system. and try some nice gaming

khushy · 14 Mar 2009 at 08:04

but the RAM I have says it runs at 1333Mhz as standard!

khushy

killari · 14 Mar 2009 at 12:18

khushy said:
So what could that be - voltage - RAM failiure?

Have you tried going into the BIOS and setting all the voltages and timings to the retailer specifications?

Could also run memtest or something to see if any sticks are not up to par.