PC Keeps Locking Up

Charlie Bravo · 30 May 2006 at 09:15

Over the last 3 days my PC keeps randomly locking up and won't always reboot properly unless the power is removed from the PC for a minute or so.

At first I thought it was the memory but 4 hours in memtest reveals no errors. It mainly occurs whilst playing a game but it has also happened whilst browsing the net and even once whilst I was in the BIOS.

Any ideas as to what it could be as it's getting on my nerves now.

Spec:

Athlon 64 3700 (s754)
Asrock K8NF4G-SATA2
1Gb (2x 512mb) Geil Value PC3200
Sappire X1800XT
Antec 500W PSU
2x Samsung HDD's

None of it is overclocked.

Charlie Bravo · 30 May 2006 at 10:21

Yep, got latest BIOS etc. I've taken a stick of RAM out and it's lasted a lot longer so far then it did before.
I ran memtest for nearly 5 hours with both sticks in and it showed no errors.

Could it be that the motherboard doesn't like 2 sticks in at once (it only has 2 RAM slots)?

Charlie Bravo · 30 May 2006 at 11:19

What board was that mate?

Charlie Bravo · 30 May 2006 at 12:39

Ah well I've RMA'd the board as it runs fine with 1 stick of RAM but not 2..... sod all use to me.