Hi there,
Im completely out of touch with overclocking and hardware at the mo, used to be into it all about 3-4 years back, but all my money goes on cars now lol. ANYWAY.........
heres my spec, i built this computer back in 2004 and its doing me well until lately.
- Antec TruBlue 460w
- AMD S939 Opteron 144 (1.8Ghz Stock)
- MSI K8N Neo 2 Motherboard
- 1 Gb of Geil DDR2 Ram (was the **** hot stuff, that ran 2-2-2-5 timings), limited edition bah blah
- WD Caviar IDE 80GB.
and at this second in time im just using an old Geforce 2 as im not playing games.
RIght, basically my computer was getting clogged and slow, and it started BSODING, i'd get IRQL_NOT_EQUAL to e.t.c and PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, e.t.c basically id get a lot of random BSOD's generally just after booting into windows, but they would be random, sometimes id be able to use the comp for hours without a problem.
Now ive got a new HD in there, fresh install of XP, and it runs nice and fast, but instead of BSOD's the computer will just restart now, again randomly, but its less frequent than the BSOD's used to be.
Ive compeltely cleared the case of dust e.t.c still no good, CPU runs cool as a cucumber, the PSU voltage rails are perfecrt according to the BIOS. how the heck do i start diagnosing?! im so out of touch, please help!
Oh i should Add, Firefox and opera seem to crash quite a lot, but they are the only programmes that seem to do so.
Im completely out of touch with overclocking and hardware at the mo, used to be into it all about 3-4 years back, but all my money goes on cars now lol. ANYWAY.........
heres my spec, i built this computer back in 2004 and its doing me well until lately.
- Antec TruBlue 460w
- AMD S939 Opteron 144 (1.8Ghz Stock)
- MSI K8N Neo 2 Motherboard
- 1 Gb of Geil DDR2 Ram (was the **** hot stuff, that ran 2-2-2-5 timings), limited edition bah blah
- WD Caviar IDE 80GB.
and at this second in time im just using an old Geforce 2 as im not playing games.
RIght, basically my computer was getting clogged and slow, and it started BSODING, i'd get IRQL_NOT_EQUAL to e.t.c and PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, e.t.c basically id get a lot of random BSOD's generally just after booting into windows, but they would be random, sometimes id be able to use the comp for hours without a problem.
Now ive got a new HD in there, fresh install of XP, and it runs nice and fast, but instead of BSOD's the computer will just restart now, again randomly, but its less frequent than the BSOD's used to be.
Ive compeltely cleared the case of dust e.t.c still no good, CPU runs cool as a cucumber, the PSU voltage rails are perfecrt according to the BIOS. how the heck do i start diagnosing?! im so out of touch, please help!
Oh i should Add, Firefox and opera seem to crash quite a lot, but they are the only programmes that seem to do so.
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), i ran it on air after that at 2.5Ghz, it probably spent a good year and a bit with 1.6v shoved up its backside, but its been running stock for about 6 months now, just problems developed lately. Ill do memtest and multimeter results and report back a bit later.