Help my PC is just constantly freezing...no idea why.

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ok I built my pc about 6 months ago and overclocked it following instructions from some of u guys (oced the cpu and the ram). anyway everything has been fine. Now i just bought a buffalo wireless router as my flatmates have just got cable. I also bought this buffalo card below..

http://www.buffalo-technology.com/p...-speed/wireless-g-125-high-speed-pci-adapter/

now ive been getting problems. I installed the card but when I connected to the net, the PC just frooze. I had to restart. Now it freezes whenever I get into windows, I cant do anything I have to restart. It doesnt matter what im doing, it will always freeze not long after ive just turned my pc on.

I even tried reformatting. I put my xp cd in, restarted and went to format. The first time it got to 26% before freezing, second time about 13%.:mad::o

I removed the card and uninstalled it but it still freezes.

I dont get why suddenly???? I presumed it was obviously something to do with the buffalo card. I phoned up buffalo support, spoke to a guy who couldnt speak english and he told me my PC may have had a conflict. I told him I had removed the card already and this problem only just started when I installed the card. He said my pc probably had a virus......:mad:

This is my bios (which i have tried resetting to factory defaults but made no difference either).

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Win XP Pro sp2
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe"
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB S300 16mb
Tuniq Tower

Please help!! Any ideas cause I cant use it at the moment?? surely it cant be a coincidence that this only started happening when i tried to install this buffalo card? But I really dont get why that would cause this problem...:confused:

thanks
 
its still doing it!! I check inside and the sata II cable on the hd was out or really loose so I put that in and everything was ok, I formatted without any problems and installed windows agains without any problems.

So I thought I fixed it. About an hour later I installed the buffalo network card again and then it started freezing again. I dont get it!!??:mad::mad:
my psu is a corsair hx 520. I have tried with one stick of ram no difference. I dont think i knocked the cpu heatsink (tuniq tower), thats all secure. How do I check the temps?? i can hardly use windows before it crashes.

whats the problem?:confused:
 
Download coretemp to check the CPU temp:
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Make sure ALL connections in your case are nice and securely fitted. Also make sure you are downloading the latest drivers for that network card from the developers website, because like you said, it was fine until you installed the network card.

You could also try network card in a different PCI slot.
 
If its a pci network card try setting in Bios reset ECSD which re-does something to allocating the IRQs to the pci slots (as there could be a conflict there).

Another issue could be that I had a buffalo network card once that was trying to draw a massive amount of power from the pci slot - which would stall my system - but that results in a full on crash, not just pause.

Had a similar issue with a USB stick once too - was knackered (memory) and the system kept pausing when it was plugged in - the reason I say this is because I think the buffalo network usb stick has memory on it to store the installation files - so could be similar. Edit ignore - re-read your orig post

Solution - really I would bin the network card and try a different one.
 
downloaded coretemp and the temps of core 1 is 32 and core 2 34 (thats when overclocked as well)

the latest drivers on buffalos site dont even work. it says they are for an incorrect product or something when i try to install, there is no autorun on them. It is the right driver (on their site anyway). I only have 1 pci slot for it to go into. the ds4 mobo I have only has 2 standard pci slots and the soundcard is in one of em.

This card wont be going in the bin im gonna be taking a sledgehammer to it. I built this pc 6 months ago and overclocked it to the above. No problems AT ALL, not one single crash or windows error. As soon as i get this pos card (which i read was supposed to be good) I get all these issues. But then after I have removed the card from the case, it still freezes up so I just dont get it..

anyway ive removed the card and im formatting the pc now and will install windows again (thats if it doesnt freeze up formatting) and see if everythings ok...

The only thing I could try is it says to make sure you install the drivers before installing the card in the pc. yeah I didnt bother doing that, I cant see it making any difference though? Also the front 120mm fan inside my Silverstone TJ04 case aint spinning..I dont know if thats normal, honestly cant remember if it did before, I think it did.

If its a pci network card try setting in Bios reset ECSD which re-does something to allocating the IRQs to the pci slots (as there could be a conflict there).
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how do I do that?
 
If its doing that when the card is out then there is something wrong with one of your current components. Re-check everything is properly connected.

Also did you drop anything whilst installing the card? i.e screws etc? Could something be shorting. Look around the MB to see if anything is visable.
 
kennethsross said:
In some systems, it can make a very big difference.
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it seems daft, but there is logic behind it

The logic goes like this

when windows detects new hardware being installed,it will by design look for drivers for it. It will then attempt to install drivers that it thinks best. If its a piece of hardware that doesnt have drivers inbuilt with windows, it can very often attempt to install wrong ones, rather than leave it as "unknown device"

When it installs wrong ones is where things go wrong, it will classify the device accordingly. I had a USB scanner that got categorized as a USB hub, and i couldnt do anything to prevent it installing itself as a USB hub untill i hacked around with the inf files (removing the entiire USB hub classification from the drivers in windows)

having said that, i find it either works and installs correctly, or it doesnt work at all and will refuse to install properly. With you saying the buffalo drivers dont work, you could well have this problem.

Your trying to install Network drivers for a device that windows thinks is something else. When you attempt to install the drivers, do you get an error about there not being any drivers found this type of device / no supported devices found etc... ?
 
guys i really need your help on this...this is being sold tomorrow and it still aint fixed!!

Its the same problem :confused::mad::mad: if i new what was wrong i could get it sorted because most if not all of this stuff is still in warranty.

ive checked around the mobo and cant see nothing wrong.

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^^ the graphics card was in the blue one which is pcie1, it wouldnt make any difference trying it in pcie 2 (orange one) would it? I havent tried but i cant see that making any difference.

None of these below are plugged into the mobo but they dont need to be anyway do they? I dont think they were before when everything was fine but i cant be certain (i dont have the mobo manual on me, and when i put it together im pretty sure the manual didnt mention em). the 3 LEDs in the second pic all were I think, but I took them out just to see and they are just LEDs so it doesnt matter anyway.

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its defo not an overheating issue. I dont know what to do!:confused:
 
Did you experience the freeze up when formatting with the wireless card installed? The card could be faulty, I would suggest removing the wireless card, reformatting and install your operating system first. If all goes well, its a good indication that the wireless card is possibly faulty.

Put your gfx card in the blue pcie slot (which operates at pcie x16 speed), the orange slot is physically pcie x16 size, but only operates at pcie x4 speed.

PLED is your power light on the front of your case, this is not essential, but this light can possibly give you information about hardware faults (different flashing patterns I think), but I would leave this till later once you have reformatted and installed windows without the wireless card.

HDD LED is a light on the front of your case that flickers with hard drive activity - not an essential thing to connect imho.

Not sure about the others in the first pic, download your mobo manual and see what you can find. Not sure what board revision you have, the following link will take you to the gigabyte page where you can choose your revision and download the manual (scroll to the bottom of the page to see the different revisions):

link
 
davethe11 said:
Did you experience the freeze up when formatting with the wireless card installed? The card could be faulty, I would suggest removing the wireless card, reformatting and install your operating system first. If all goes well, its a good indication that the wireless card is possibly faulty.
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Ive tried all that, the card isnt even in anymore but the same problem happens.

its revision 1.0, I will have a look at the manual.
 
I would guess that its either a cpu overheating problem, a fautly ram module, or a faulty hard drive. Check the cpu temp in the bios, make sure its not too hot. Then remove one stick of ram (I see you have 2x1gb kit) and try formatting, if it freezes, try the other stick of ram and format again.
 
davethe11 said:
I would guess that its either a cpu overheating problem, a fautly ram module, or a faulty hard drive. Check the cpu temp in the bios, make sure its not too hot. Then remove one stick of ram (I see you have 2x1gb kit) and try formatting, if it freezes, try the other stick of ram and format again.
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the cpu temp in bios was 26 if i remember right (that was overclocked as well). Ive already tried the ram modules the way you suggested. Im guessing its the hdd as well but how would i know for certain? is there a program i can run from cd or disk to test it?
 
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