Every now and again this system will just lock up.
It's at completely random times, but always when it's being used, never whilst idle. It's usually at times where at least a small amount of CPU power is required, eg. switching windows or closing a program.
When it happens, a random process (normally firefox.exe or msnmsgr.exe, but sometimes others) will go to 100% CPU usage and the system will lock up. If I terminate that process, the next process will go to 100% and so on. The only way to stop it is to reset.
It's running overclocked @ 2.8Ghz, but the problem still occurs at stock speeds.
Any ideas very much appreciated.
Jon
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ @ 2.8Ghz Stable
2x512mb GeIL Value DDR PC3200
Asus A8N-SLi nForce 4
BFG/nVidia GeForce 256mb 7900GT
WD 160Gb 7200rpm SATA HDD
DVD-ROM/CD-RW
DVD-RW
It's at completely random times, but always when it's being used, never whilst idle. It's usually at times where at least a small amount of CPU power is required, eg. switching windows or closing a program.
When it happens, a random process (normally firefox.exe or msnmsgr.exe, but sometimes others) will go to 100% CPU usage and the system will lock up. If I terminate that process, the next process will go to 100% and so on. The only way to stop it is to reset.
It's running overclocked @ 2.8Ghz, but the problem still occurs at stock speeds.
Any ideas very much appreciated.
Jon
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ @ 2.8Ghz Stable
2x512mb GeIL Value DDR PC3200
Asus A8N-SLi nForce 4
BFG/nVidia GeForce 256mb 7900GT
WD 160Gb 7200rpm SATA HDD
DVD-ROM/CD-RW
DVD-RW
