My PC is crashing, restarting ...

K-z

K-z

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First of all i want to say hello am new to this forum and am not sure this is the right place to post this but anyway if someone can help me then thx a lot ! :)

So basically this started 4-5 days ago. My PC crashed, restarted u name it if I go play css or any game I get a error or my pc just freezes I tried almost everything but am not sure what to do anymore...
Oh ya something weird i didn't do any overcloacking but my but at the start I had 1.94Ghz stable i think and now 2.0Ghz first of all I was like, oke...? how did this happened and I though this will "boost" my pc speed but it just started to restart ,crash ... I even got a blue screen ( second time in my life ). I think it was a error about the hardware , am not sure didn’t read it

So I tried this:

-I formatted my pc
-I took the battery out from the mainboard
-I went into the bios command and put them on default
-I checked for all new drivers
-I checked for the Temperature ( if my CPU was overheating )
-I cleaned the CPU fan for dust and so on.....

My PC specs are:

Processor: AMD Sempron 2800+ 2000MHz or 2.0 (2.0 it was 1.94 ATM don't know why)
Ram: 1536 MB or 1.5GB if u will...
Graphic card: Nvidia Geforce 7600GS AGP
Mainboard: K7S8X.
Operating system
Windows: Windows XP Professional / Service pack 3
Bios version : P2.60

If somebody has any clue or any suggestion i will be glad. Thanks to all.

K-z

Oh ya my Voltage core is 1.600V i dont think this is normal, but i don't know where do change it i tried bios but couldn't find
 
Whats the error message?
What were your CPU temps?
Id say your graphics card is over heating, or your RAM is giving up. Run memtest86 to check that.
 
Well my normal temp is 40-44C cleaned all the dust... Graphic card temp is 40C

and for the ram ill check...
 
here is the error after the restart from watching something just like that...



btw where can i download the memtest86 can u give me the link maybe?
 
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tbh I think its the cpu, I was given an old semperon based machine last year from a friend as they upgraded. The machine was displaying similar problems to yours & after doing several painstaking tasks of swapping parts its was the cpu, as the memory controller is on the chip this is what the cause was (there are no memory controllers amd based boards, make them cheaper unlike intel boards.

I hope you manage to fix things with too much hassle

kev
 
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