PC Freezing

lee87 · 20 Apr 2006 at 17:21

Hi, I am having a problem with my pc freezing but i'm not sure on whats causing it.

It is quite a strange problem as I can leave my pc running prime, s&m, folding etc all day and it won't crash. It will only crash when I am using it, browsing the internet, office work, games. It doesn't crash a lot, sometimes once a week or it can crash few times in a day.
It is prime stable for 24 hours, i've ran memtest and there was no errors.
My cpu was overclocked and I thought this was problem but it is doing it at stock speed as well.

My spec is
Athlon X2 3800+ with a thermaltake blue orb II cooler
1GB PC3200 Corsair (2x512mb)
Geforce 6600 AGP
80GB IDE Maxtor
Asrock 939 dual sata2 (volt modded)
400W Antec Smartpower ATX 1.3

Can anyone think of why my pc is crashing.

Thanks
Lee

lee87 · 20 Apr 2006 at 17:51

It just locks up, sometimes the mouse will start moving slowly for a few seconds then it will just freeze.
It has also reset, it's only done this once though.
There is no bsod or errors.

lee87 · 20 Apr 2006 at 17:58

The temps are fine, 47c load and 33c idle The room temperature doesn't really change. The pc is up against a wall, could the psu be overheating or would the pc reset if it was this?

I've reformated the pc so I doubt it's a driver problem or program. I've tried newer and older gfx drivers but it didn't make a difference.

lee87 · 20 Apr 2006 at 18:08

My psu is about 2 years old. All the rails are stable. I have added a TV card but I think it was freezing before I added this.

lemonkettaz said:
might be memory. i had to rma my memory in january and that was one of the symptoms... except i couldnt move my mouse on the screen, the pc would just freeze

When mine freezes the mouse doesn't move either. I have tried running memtest for 1 hour and it didn't get any errors. How long should you run memtest for it to test properly?

lee87 · 20 Apr 2006 at 21:33

It's been running memtest for 3 hours now and hasn't got any errors so I don't think thats the problem.
I'll try without my TV card for a while and see what happens. All the rails are stable and it is stable when the graphics card is at load so I don't think the psu is problem either.

It'll take some time for me to find out whats causing it as sometimes it can go for over a week without freezing.

Thanks for the help

lee87 · 21 Apr 2006 at 08:23

A.N.Other said:
You're running at 2.65 GHz, so are you sure of the stability. I'm guessing so, as you do F@H - just making sure.

Despite this, try lowering the OC to say 2.5 and see what happens.

It was running at this and it's prime stable, i've lowered it to stock speed and it still freezes.
I'm starting to think it's the motherboard. I think the volt mod that I done has messed it up (maybe a dodgy connection).

lol at the video.

lee87 · 15 May 2006 at 17:25

Lemmy said:
Did you find a fix for this in the end? I have a very similar problem with xp locking up/freezing ?

My pc seems to be fixed, It hasn't crashed in over a month.
I'm not sure what has fixed it, I tried without the TV card and it crashed so I knew it wasn't the problem and put it back in, then a few days later I updated to a new bios and haven't had a crash since.

I don't think the bios was the problem as I had already tried 3 different bioses and it was crashing on all of them.