I'm really pulling my hair out with this one now. Did a re-install of XP last week because I somehow managed to get a virus on my PC, and no matter what tool I used to remove it, it always came back. Ever since doing that re-install my PC will crash at random times, it could run for 2 hours fine, it could run for 5 hours, then it will only run for 5 minutes and I get a real hard lock up, and the only way around it is to do press the reset button.
Specs are
Gigabyte GA955DSP3 Rev 3.3 (Flashed to F12 bios)
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz stock speed (Allendale core, was overclocked but now running at stock as I thought that was the problem but it wasn't)
ATI Radeon X1800 XT
2 Gig Corsair DDR2 RAM 667 FSB (will be 4 gig of ram if I get this fixed)
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
Compro DVB T200 TV card
I just don't get it, before the virus it was really stable and depenable, but now arg not happy.
The odd thing is I'm dual booting with Windows Vista 64 and thats really stable, but as half my games aren't supported XP is my primary os (XP Pro, all updates installed and everything has the latest driver also)
I've gone into the bios and turned my memory speeds down to normal, and set the optimal defaults.
Here's what I've done, bought another 2 gig of ram just in case my ram was at fault, with exactly the same type of ram I get the same result so I know thats not the issue. I've flashed my motherboards BIOS from F11 to F12, still the same problem. This only happens in WIndows XP, doesn't happen in Vista 64.
Looking in the event log shows I have an error with my parallel port service (because I've turned that port off in the BIOS as I don't need it) and also something about Ulead burning manager and I don't have anything Ulead installed (Does Nero use anything from Ulead by chance?) So I have stopped that service from running.
I don't get to see a blue screen, just a total hard lock up with a horrid beeping sound coming from my speakers.
I know I don't have any faulty hardware because all the teseting sioftware I've run gives my PC a clean bill of health , I know that it's software but what I have no idea which software it is.
I am starting to possibly question my power supply a 480 watt Xilence Power job, although I'd say with the X1800 XT, 1 optical drive and 2 hard drives connected that it isn't exactly over tasked.
Any ideas or offers of help would be great as I am really getting to the point where I am going to take my PC outside and introduce it to a really big heavy hammer.
Specs are
Gigabyte GA955DSP3 Rev 3.3 (Flashed to F12 bios)
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz stock speed (Allendale core, was overclocked but now running at stock as I thought that was the problem but it wasn't)
ATI Radeon X1800 XT
2 Gig Corsair DDR2 RAM 667 FSB (will be 4 gig of ram if I get this fixed)
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
Compro DVB T200 TV card
I just don't get it, before the virus it was really stable and depenable, but now arg not happy.
The odd thing is I'm dual booting with Windows Vista 64 and thats really stable, but as half my games aren't supported XP is my primary os (XP Pro, all updates installed and everything has the latest driver also)
I've gone into the bios and turned my memory speeds down to normal, and set the optimal defaults.
Here's what I've done, bought another 2 gig of ram just in case my ram was at fault, with exactly the same type of ram I get the same result so I know thats not the issue. I've flashed my motherboards BIOS from F11 to F12, still the same problem. This only happens in WIndows XP, doesn't happen in Vista 64.
Looking in the event log shows I have an error with my parallel port service (because I've turned that port off in the BIOS as I don't need it) and also something about Ulead burning manager and I don't have anything Ulead installed (Does Nero use anything from Ulead by chance?) So I have stopped that service from running.
I don't get to see a blue screen, just a total hard lock up with a horrid beeping sound coming from my speakers.
I know I don't have any faulty hardware because all the teseting sioftware I've run gives my PC a clean bill of health , I know that it's software but what I have no idea which software it is.
I am starting to possibly question my power supply a 480 watt Xilence Power job, although I'd say with the X1800 XT, 1 optical drive and 2 hard drives connected that it isn't exactly over tasked.
Any ideas or offers of help would be great as I am really getting to the point where I am going to take my PC outside and introduce it to a really big heavy hammer.
