Help with old intel 775 system

Gavin · 7 Jul 2011 at 13:41

Ive got a Asus p5w DH deluxe with a E2220 and 2gb of ram and 2 x 320gb hard drives. With a 8600 GT gfx card.

Been fine for years and now all of a sudden i get random lock ups that require a reboot.

Ive reinstalled various different operating systems, ive re seated the ram as well as the cpu and re applying arctic silver.

I even took the thing apart today and clean every spec of dust out of it and cleaned it all internally and re routed wires etc.

yet its still doing it.

Anyone with any ideas what so ever?

Thanks in advance

stulid · 7 Jul 2011 at 13:41

Make/model of the psu please.

iamtheoneneo · 7 Jul 2011 at 13:46

so you did all that and didnt check the harddrives? them being culprite number 1 of lockups etc.....id run some health checks on those and reinstall windows.
chances are they are failing.

Gavin · 7 Jul 2011 at 20:01

hmm no i didnt as it happens as they have been sounding like a bag of spanners........

perhaps ill order a new one tomorrow.

ps whats the best things to do a health check on the drives.

Justintime · 7 Jul 2011 at 22:40

Manufacturers DOS utility. Seatools for DOS works for all manufacturers.
Run a memtest as well, how are your temperatures?

Blue160 · 7 Jul 2011 at 22:52

Gavin said:
they have been sounding like a bag of spanners...........

Any unusual noises at all from a hard drive should ring alarm bells. Bags of spanners don't sound good

Justintime · 7 Jul 2011 at 22:55

Not necessarily, bearings do wear on hdd motors. They may whine a little more but can be 100% fine, plus a fragmented hdd might sound like a bag of spanners as well

Gavin · 8 Jul 2011 at 13:40

passes all seatool tests......

anything else?

Justintime · 8 Jul 2011 at 15:44

Run memtest86 http://www.memtest.org/ Just for clarification, ran long test in seatools right?

Gavin · 12 Jul 2011 at 14:51

Justintime said:
Run memtest86 http://www.memtest.org/ Just for clarification, ran long test in seatools right?

yes ran long test and it passed mem test...

Perhaps i better give in and uipgrade lol

Number_25 · 12 Jul 2011 at 14:52

I would have to suggest an upgrade to be honest.

You could build a much better system (keeping the 8600) for about £410.

Gavin · 13 Jul 2011 at 07:43

blimey £410 to watch i player and check emails........is that all lol

Id rather try and get a bit more use out of this one tbh....

PcTestCard.couk · 13 Jul 2011 at 14:06

Check the mobo if there is any damaged capacitor.

Reseat the HDD data cable and CPU may help.

Hope this helps!
Bill
Tech Manager

Gavin · 13 Jul 2011 at 15:08

i did check the caps but they all seemed ok....

only thing i have not done is reseat the cpu...