I upgraded my CPU and GFX card around 1 month ago and it's been working flawlessly since then up till now.
Currently i have Antec Sonata II case with supplied PSU, Abit KN9 Ultra, AMD x2 6000, 2 gig 6400 DDR2 and a nVidia 8800 GTS running Vista Ultimate x64.
About 3 days ago i got my first blue screen, restarted and it locked at startup. Restarted again and it was fine for x amount of time before doing the same again. Sometimes as much as every 30 mins. Now the PC had been on a long time and WoW was running continuously, potentially 7 - 8 hours but it could do this fine before the upgrade. I opened it up and cleaned a hell of a load of dust off the filter and turned the rear case fan up to full but it has just crashed again after around 5 hours. I restarted and it blue screened again but is now fine.
I am thinking it has to be heat as the ambient temp is probably on the up, firstly, does anyone know a good temp monitor, Abit EQ just fails miserably. Also, what is everyones opinion on the ducting that comes with the Sonata II, it seems really cramped around my graphics card now and i'm wondering whether its very effective or not.
Another possibility is the PSU being overloaded but i'm pretty sure that it would have started happening a lot sooner.
Any comments / suggestions?
Currently i have Antec Sonata II case with supplied PSU, Abit KN9 Ultra, AMD x2 6000, 2 gig 6400 DDR2 and a nVidia 8800 GTS running Vista Ultimate x64.
About 3 days ago i got my first blue screen, restarted and it locked at startup. Restarted again and it was fine for x amount of time before doing the same again. Sometimes as much as every 30 mins. Now the PC had been on a long time and WoW was running continuously, potentially 7 - 8 hours but it could do this fine before the upgrade. I opened it up and cleaned a hell of a load of dust off the filter and turned the rear case fan up to full but it has just crashed again after around 5 hours. I restarted and it blue screened again but is now fine.
I am thinking it has to be heat as the ambient temp is probably on the up, firstly, does anyone know a good temp monitor, Abit EQ just fails miserably. Also, what is everyones opinion on the ducting that comes with the Sonata II, it seems really cramped around my graphics card now and i'm wondering whether its very effective or not.
Another possibility is the PSU being overloaded but i'm pretty sure that it would have started happening a lot sooner.
Any comments / suggestions?
