Recent content by Stravos

can you swap the PSU with the PSU in the computer you are using now? That misalignment sounds iffy.

Try pulling one stick of ram and seeing if your problem persist. I was getting similar problems with my K8N Neo2 Plat and I've heard a lot of 939 boards have problems with two sticks of ram, or maybe it's the dual channel. I pulled a stick and it's working fine now. I've heard it's a power...

I just tried it without the audio card, it got to completing installation in windows setup then froze up. I'm not sure why it ran longer this time. If the sound card had soemthing to do with it, or if it was because it had been off for a solid day or two...

Tried to run Maxblast, but it gave me an error about not being able to load dos. I tried a different HDD altogether and it froze at 91% copying files in Windows setup. Seems like either a power problem (thought wouldn't it reset?) or mobo/cpu... ugh, this isn't the time I wanted an excuse to...

I'm running SP2. THe OCZ ram is the premier series I believe (one step up from performance, which is their value series) and it's getting 2.7v. I hadn't messed with any of the drivers until it started freezing, then I decided to update all of them. I haven't run adaware or any others, haven't...

Wouldn't it be likely that it would freeze during the 10+ hours I ran memtest? Both those tax the memory and PSU more than just idling for 10 minutes, which is about the average time it takes to freeze :/

I've been running this rig for a little under a year now without a hitch, but just recently it has started to freeze fairly randomly. I've tried to narrow down the problem by pinpointing an action I take before it freezes, but it even freezes while idling. I ran memtest for 10+ hours and it...

The inspiron 8600 actually starts at 6.9lbs, and I doubt adding a memory stick and upgrading the mem card to 128mb would add 1/10th of a pound :P I think for what you want it's the best value, even though it might be ever so slightly over your weight limit. Though I'm not sure what your...