New rig crashing

seth

seth

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Ok so i just bought a new rig off ocuk, built her up and installed everything.
It reboots after about 3 hours if im not doing much on it, and if i try a game it reboots after about 20 minutes or crashes to desktop (sometimes just freezes).

spec:
Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Black UV
HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold PCI Dolby Soundcard (SC-000-HT)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache
OcUK GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Asus M2N32-SLi-DLX nForce 590 SLi (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2
Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.20GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Thermaltake VA7000BWA Shark Aluminium Full Tower - Black
Sony DWG120A 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Logitech G5 Gaming-Grade Laser Mouse
Logitech Media Keyboard Elite
SpeedLink Medusa SL-8790 5.1 Surround Headset

Any ideas/suggestions? Im quite lost as to what it could be.
 
Yeah this is a tough one as it could be quite a few things.

But are you sure that it is not overheating? Do you have sufficient air-flow, or cooling in place.

Also have you tried updating your drivers for your system?... Namely the Graphics card etc.

As I had a friend who had a very similar problem, and it turned out to be corrupt drivers which were causing a conflict, as he updated the drivers but didn't fully remove previous remains of drivers etc. Once he completely removed them and then reinstalled the latest updates it was fine.

;)
 
Temperature seems to be fine. I updated the gfx drivers to the latest nvidia forceware and I did remove the old drivers before I installed. I was thinking I should try backdating the gfx drivers.
 
seth said:
Temperature seems to be fine. I updated the gfx drivers to the latest nvidia forceware and I did remove the old drivers before I installed. I was thinking I should try backdating the gfx drivers.
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Yeah definitely worth a try... seems logical that it is connected to your Graphics Card in some way.

;)
 
Tip for you mate, try only having the basics of a systm installed then test, then install things like soundcard etc and see if it might be them giving inconsitencies? :)
 
memtest was fine, so i took out one stick and booted up to try that.
just been playing fear for over an hour so, i think the crashing is gone
 
I am having this exact same problem on my rig, so what i have done is to re-install the old drivers one at a time and the install all the new ones and hopefully this will sort the problem.....Weird that you are having it with your new rig, as my rig sucks :(
 
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