System Freezes.

mwillo · 14 Aug 2007 at 16:36

Hi i wonder if someone can help me.

My system(spec is in my signature) has suffered from system lockups ever since i put it together.

Over the course of the last few months I have replaced the initial 650w ocz psu with a 850w psu, upgraded the cooler on the cpu.

I have ran memtest on all the sticks of ram and get no failures i also ran the pc with 1 stick at a time over the period of 1 per week..

Ran the pc with no sides on.

Tested the the pc with 1 graphics card.

Installed with both XP and Vista.

non of this has made any difference..

So before i purchase a new motherboard does anyone have any suggestions.

Thanx

melbourne720 · 14 Aug 2007 at 16:45

So it can't, or is unlikely to be:-
CPU
RAM
PSU
Heat
OS
Crossfire

Which leaves
Gfx card
Motherboard
drivers
BIOS

Have you tried a BIOS update, a different graphics card or different drivers for mobo/gfx?

mwillo · 14 Aug 2007 at 18:47

melbourne720 said:
So it can't, or is unlikely to be:-
CPU
RAM
PSU
Heat
OS
Crossfire

Which leaves
Gfx card
Motherboard
drivers
BIOS

Have you tried a BIOS update, a different graphics card or different drivers for mobo/gfx?

I have tried both graphics cards individually so i think i can rule them out.
i have also checked ati site daily for drivers so they are kept up to date.
and the bios is also checked and kept upto date.

Growlingfish · 14 Aug 2007 at 18:53

First: have a feeling you'll get yelled at at some point over your sig (4 lines is the max I think).

On-topic: motherboard seems a fairly reasonable culprit based on the tests you've done. Have you checked the temperatures of your components? Maybe at some point the CPU heatsink wasn't seated very well?

Edit: have you read about the problems with X1950s? Some have issues that cause lockups, but you'd have to Google this or wait for someone with experience of it to reply.

mwillo · 14 Aug 2007 at 19:48

Growlingfish said:
First: have a feeling you'll get yelled at at some point over your sig (4 lines is the max I think).

On-topic: motherboard seems a fairly reasonable culprit based on the tests you've done. Have you checked the temperatures of your components? Maybe at some point the CPU heatsink wasn't seated very well?

Edit: have you read about the problems with X1950s? Some have issues that cause lockups, but you'd have to Google this or wait for someone with experience of it to reply.

Oops.. i will sort out the signature before i get told off..

I have run uguru with the temp warnings switched on and have not noticed any beeps..

I will have a look into the x1950 faults thanx.