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I recently splashed out in the OCUK store and built a new system (specs below), but there's an irritating problem.
The build went fine without any probs, built on a grounded dissipative ESD mat with wrist strap to avoid ESD jip. After a few days it has started freezing up seemingly randomly.
It doesn't happen that often, maybe once or twice every 2 - 3 days. When it happens in windows it just totally freezes up: no BSOD or anything just no mouse or keyboard reaction, forcing a switch off switch on again. It can happen after I've been using the PC for ages or just when it's been sat switched on for a few hours unused. When it happens whilst gaming the screen just goes black with a few random red dots showing, or sometimes just freezes up in a menu screen, again it can happen after hours and hours of MOH Airborne or Crysis, or after just a few minutes.
I tried to run some diagnostic tests (Memtest86 etc) overnight from a bootable CD, but it must have rebooted because the next day it was sitting at the first menu from the CD. So it seems somethings not right outside windows which makes me think it's maybe a hardware prob.
Temperatures & voltages all look fine in ASUS PC Probe II & ASUS AI Suite, and the 8800GT sits at 60-61c idle climbing to about 69c under load.
The only obvious weird thing that has happened (about 3 times) is the sound going (apart from annoying buzz when speakers are turned right up), but after re-installing the X-Fi drivers and rebooting it's back to normal again.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to start trying to pin down the culprit. Any ideas, pointers and help would be mucho appreciated.
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB)
CPU COOLING
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
MOBO
Asus P5K Premium/WiFi-AP Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2
MEMORY
2 X GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
GRAPHICS
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC2 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI - PCI-Express
PSU
Enermax Infiniti 650W EIN650AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
HD
2 X Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (not running in RAID)
SOUND
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Sound Card - OEM
DVD
Samsung SH-S203NBEBN 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter
CASE
Coolermaster Stacker 832
OS
Windows XP Pro SP2
The build went fine without any probs, built on a grounded dissipative ESD mat with wrist strap to avoid ESD jip. After a few days it has started freezing up seemingly randomly.
It doesn't happen that often, maybe once or twice every 2 - 3 days. When it happens in windows it just totally freezes up: no BSOD or anything just no mouse or keyboard reaction, forcing a switch off switch on again. It can happen after I've been using the PC for ages or just when it's been sat switched on for a few hours unused. When it happens whilst gaming the screen just goes black with a few random red dots showing, or sometimes just freezes up in a menu screen, again it can happen after hours and hours of MOH Airborne or Crysis, or after just a few minutes.
I tried to run some diagnostic tests (Memtest86 etc) overnight from a bootable CD, but it must have rebooted because the next day it was sitting at the first menu from the CD. So it seems somethings not right outside windows which makes me think it's maybe a hardware prob.
Temperatures & voltages all look fine in ASUS PC Probe II & ASUS AI Suite, and the 8800GT sits at 60-61c idle climbing to about 69c under load.
The only obvious weird thing that has happened (about 3 times) is the sound going (apart from annoying buzz when speakers are turned right up), but after re-installing the X-Fi drivers and rebooting it's back to normal again.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to start trying to pin down the culprit. Any ideas, pointers and help would be mucho appreciated.
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB)
CPU COOLING
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
MOBO
Asus P5K Premium/WiFi-AP Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2
MEMORY
2 X GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
GRAPHICS
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC2 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI - PCI-Express
PSU
Enermax Infiniti 650W EIN650AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
HD
2 X Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (not running in RAID)
SOUND
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Sound Card - OEM
DVD
Samsung SH-S203NBEBN 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter
CASE
Coolermaster Stacker 832
OS
Windows XP Pro SP2
