what type of error leaves no trace?

cyclopopcicle · 9 Mar 2006 at 21:45

my pc will randomly reboot leaving no error log at all
how can i trace this?

i have replaced
m/b
mem
processor
hard disk
graphics card
sound card
psu
reinstalled win XP

out of ideas now
please help

cyclopopcicle · 9 Mar 2006 at 22:14

it tends to be when gaming
but no i am not overheating my temps are stable
cpu gets to 49 load mb about 40
gcard gets to around 55 (

cyclopopcicle · 10 Mar 2006 at 07:34

games im playing are f.e.a.r offline, COD2 online
its a speedtouch router
i am overclocked on my cpu but it was doing this before overclocking and with a different CPU
PSU is also new i had this same problem with the older (3monthd old) PSU

auto restart is allready turned off

installed new drivers all round
whats very annoying though its its lack of traceability

something i forgot to mention was that sometimes when it does it, it will still play the sound for a little while (maybe 10 seconds)

i went from an asrock mboard to an asus mobo and used onboard sound, but now have an audigy 2 card
, no left over drivers as i have re-installed windows that many times

cyclopopcicle · 10 Mar 2006 at 19:23

dirtydog said:
You didn't answer my question about whether the PSU is adequate? Replacing it with a new one won't work if it's overloaded.

500 watts
all rails are stable

cyclopopcicle · 10 Mar 2006 at 19:24

BigBoy said:
You got many USB devices pluged in?

And Is the system over clocked? perhaps droping the FSB and slackening the memor timeings could stop the crashed, definatly sounds like hardware causing the crash if it is clocked.

it is overclocked (see sig) but it happens at stock aswell, and did it with another motherboard and different chip and memory

quite afew usb things though but through a hub, could this be it?

cyclopopcicle · 10 Mar 2006 at 22:22

BigBoy said:
Is the Hub powered or just off the USB on the motherboard?

powered

tzang said:
How about RAM timings? Set RAM settings in motherboard BIOS to "auto" and give it a whirl

have done this allready with no success

Trigger said:
What make is it though? That doesn't mean anything really- it could be a q-tec for all we know

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cyclopopcicle · 11 Mar 2006 at 09:01

left my pc on overnight running fear (didnt crash this time)
pc temps and volts
is it that bad?

cyclopopcicle · 11 Mar 2006 at 09:37

i have a spare PSU here but probably same quality is there anyway of using both but splitting the power between them
i.e 1 psu for the graphics card alone and the other for everything else?

cyclopopcicle · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:49

well its not my psu
i have tried 2 other psu,s and one of them was a hiper power
and still same thing
at a complete loss now
any more suggestions?