Occasional lockup

Solari · 25 Jul 2007 at 18:23

Hrm seems a bit weird this... I'm getting occasional lockups lately.

Gigabyte 965P-DS3, 2GB Geil Kit (2x1GB) PC6400, E6300...
I've got a Western Digital Caviar SATA Drive

The HDD access light comes on, stays solid and the computer locks up completely, requiring a reboot. I'm not sure if it's just worth doing a reinstall as it's only just started happening.

Scandisk shows nothing and the event log shows nothing either... any ideas off the top of your well informed heads?

As the HDD Light stays on I'm thinking it must be something to do with some I/O request going wrong and freezing the OS?

shine · 25 Jul 2007 at 18:38

I'd check the ram - use memtest.

Garyj881 · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:16

Have you overclocked?

Pipe & Slippers · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:35

Do you find that sometimes your boot time is a lot longer than normal? - I'm currently getting similar symptoms - I've memtested ok and am thinking about using a different hard drive (just 'cos I have a spare)

Solari · 26 Jul 2007 at 07:45

Hrm I'll give memtest a go. I took everything down to stock a while ago as my HSF isn't performing that well and at the moment I can't be bothered to rip the thing apart to install a Tuniq Tower.

While doing some housekeeping I realised I'd not defragged for a while and my C drive was 47% fragmented... :eek:

Cheers guys