ok guys so a couple of weeks ago i upgraded my motherboard, ram and cpu, since them nothing but trouble! random crashes whether i was using my computer for gaming / word processing / just idle on desktop.
i did install a fresh copy of windows from the beginning.
i have tried it with + without all the cards / with several graphics cards including an old 6600 / several different types and sizes of ram and all possible official drivers.
i have RMA'd the motherboard, tested as faulty (although im a bit unsure if they really did test it or not since its just a cheap board and....), new one sent to me, same problem.
i have found that the problem is excaccerbated when i install drivers for the graphics card and much much much much much less frequent without any graphics drivers
a prime95 test gave me these results:
no errors but one of the cores seems to lag behind the other by wuite a large amount of time as you can see by the asyncronous times each test began on different cores.
observations that i made as i stopped the test:
* the temperature of the cpu had dropped to 37 (pretty much idle temps) before i clciked anything
*the pc seemed sluggish and the task manager reported approximately 30% cpu usage on desktop.
here is the mb: http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l [...] 149&l3=813
my full rig:
Windows xp (32 bit)
2 x WD 250 GB HDD RAID 0
Asus M3N87 SE (bios 0602)
AMD Athlon x2 6400+
2 x 2 GB OCZ platinum (4-4-4-15) 2.2V RAM
Asus EN8800GT
Creative Audigy Sound Blaster
Hauppauge PVR-1300 (tv tuner card)
Hiper TypeR mk2 880W
im really having trouble locking this problem down please help!
i did install a fresh copy of windows from the beginning.
i have tried it with + without all the cards / with several graphics cards including an old 6600 / several different types and sizes of ram and all possible official drivers.
i have RMA'd the motherboard, tested as faulty (although im a bit unsure if they really did test it or not since its just a cheap board and....), new one sent to me, same problem.
i have found that the problem is excaccerbated when i install drivers for the graphics card and much much much much much less frequent without any graphics drivers
a prime95 test gave me these results:
no errors but one of the cores seems to lag behind the other by wuite a large amount of time as you can see by the asyncronous times each test began on different cores.
observations that i made as i stopped the test:
* the temperature of the cpu had dropped to 37 (pretty much idle temps) before i clciked anything
*the pc seemed sluggish and the task manager reported approximately 30% cpu usage on desktop.
here is the mb: http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l [...] 149&l3=813
my full rig:
Windows xp (32 bit)
2 x WD 250 GB HDD RAID 0
Asus M3N87 SE (bios 0602)
AMD Athlon x2 6400+
2 x 2 GB OCZ platinum (4-4-4-15) 2.2V RAM
Asus EN8800GT
Creative Audigy Sound Blaster
Hauppauge PVR-1300 (tv tuner card)
Hiper TypeR mk2 880W
im really having trouble locking this problem down please help!
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