Recent content by darley

Does anyone have a link to the Microsoft Dual Core Hotfix? I searched the M$ site with no results.

I should find out more about the voltage and all that stuff, I am rolling with the defaults. Could that be causing problems? CHIP: 3800+ X2 RAM: Kingston KVR400AK2 Dual Channel DDR 3200 1 GB (2x512MB) Ideas?

I am working right now, but not without trickery. I still have to turn off the MOBO stuff. I have turned off: parallel serial USB quiet n' cool

well, well, no REAL solution, but a temp fix. i disabled the USB from the MOBO and voila! Check page 34 of the manual for where in the BIOS. I have called Fry's to see if they have any other complaints from other customers. They told me they had not heard anything, but I could bring the...

okay processor is back to 2011Ghz, I called Fry's no help, they just said bring the board in to swap out with same board. Still have the USB diabled, using PCI Usb card now. No freeze...yet!

Seems to help the stability, but now my processor is running at 825Mhz

I disabled the onboard USB now. Want to see if that helps.

Complete reinstall here, disabled onboard Parallel, Serial and Ethernet. No help. Noticed the SMBus and IDE controller are sharing the same IRQ (11). Hmm. I emailed the ECS support. They pretty much tell me to talk to the place where I bought it. Uggh. On the reinstall I let Window do its...

this is so ridiculous, i got the new power supply and still the same. maybe i will try a fresh install again, just to see.

All I have found in other forums is the possible conflict between the Realtek drivers (provided with the MB) and ATI drivers. I upgraded to the nVidia drivers (ver 6.70) that seem to be supported by the updated BIOS (1.1a) but since I am still getting the freezes I guess it is not really okay...

So... I replaced the PSU and it seemed to be running fine. I then thought okay I will start putting cards back in. So I started with my ATI TV Wonder Pro. That also required installing some of the drivers. Shortly thereafter it froze again.

Not sure about the BIOS, I upgraded my BIOS to ver 1.1a and the problem remained. I will reply soon to let you know what is up with my new PSU.

I just went and bought a fresh PSU to see if it helps. OLD ONE: Enlight Corp, HPC-340-101, 315W MAX NEW ONE: Antec, SmartPower 2.0 Model SP-500, 500W Yes, the freezing happens randomly. I have had it happen in Photoshop, in Premiere, while idle. It doesn't seem to matter. I will let...

I am just hoping that someone can solve this problem. I have so much work to do and it is impossible with this freezing system.

So, from reading this the power supply was not the culprit? I have the same Fry's combo from Black Friday. I have tried everything... Clean XP install with all MS drivers. Updated Bios to 1.1a Installed all nVidia drivers, even Firewall stuff. Pulled out everything except SATA HD and...