What's up with this thing?

[Rackerz]

Specs are in sig.

I've been overclocking, CPU, RAM and graphics card. The only thing overclocked now is the graphics card but can it cause Windows XP to just hang?

Basically, I could be using Windows fine and bang, it just hangs. If I have music playing it just does that thing, you know what I'm talking about, sort of like someone going 'AAAH'. Everything is default in bios, what can cause a system to hang like that? It's not rebooting, just hanging.

This only started to happen yesterday, I've done nothing unusual to my computer.

 

[mp260767]

might do, best option at the moment is set everything to default speeds etc and see if it still happens.

 

[Rackerz]

Everything is set to default, memtest gave no errors and neither did Orthos at stock settings. Sometimes it can take upto hours before it happens, what could it be?

 

[mp260767]

even tho you've run memtest ok, might still be memory, have you tried running with just 1 stick and tried in different memory slots ?

decent psu in the system ?

 

[Rackerz]

Decent PSU, I've noticed that it happens whenever I play music, which is all on a different drive and IDE channel. My mobo wont let me have two drives on a single IDE cable, don't know why, it just refuses to recognise the slave.

Can a hard drive lock up a computer in that manner?

 

[Kanifee]

Most things connected to your pc can cause it to hang. have you checked the eventlog to see for errors, i had similer problems when my pc couldnt read from sectors on my hard drive a quick look in the admin tools event viewr and it told me there was a problem with a disk on the ide controller, allways worth a lok if all else fails.

 

[Rackerz]

How do I go about doing that?

Thanks

 

[xirokx]

triple check RAM is in correct slots...

I had a similar occurence and that was the prob but took me ages to figure it out cuz memtest thru me off the scent as my ram wasnt faulty just in the wrong slots..

 

[Amnesia]

could be drivers...try installing different drivers for graphics card

 

[Rackerz]

I've tested each ram stick individually and together, no errors. I've also changed the IDE cables, so I'm waiting upon a crash.

 

[xirokx]

I've tested each ram stick individually and together, no errors

thats just it...memtest will show no memory errors becuz your memory is fine...its more a case of this kinda thing happening when the memory is in the wrong slots...so for example run the PC temporarily on 1 stick of RAM, if it doesnt crash or auto reboot you know for sure when your machine was restarting/crashing it was due to you having put the RAM in the wrong slots..

Alternatively lets say for example even with 1 stick of RAM your machine crashes/reboots then using that same stick of RAM change the slot you have installed it in...Trial n Error but I am confident you will find the problem this way if it is the RAM...