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A8n-SLI Deluxe Freeze and Boot problems

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Marktoloba

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My system I've had for 3 months probably is just starting to act up. I can't figure out what is wrong with it. Here are the problems...

Whenever I turn on my system I get no signal, I hit the restart on my tower 2-3x and suddenly it turns on and works. From there on it works fine.

During gaming or anything that requires graphics, my whole entire system freezes randomly. Before it freezes everything runs flawlessly. Only way to get ym system to work again is to restart.

Trying to play online I am having major lag issues... My ping is great and so is my opponents... I randomly disconnect and system freeze.

Here are my specs...
A8n-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
2gig of Kingston 400 value ram
Athlon 3500+
GeForce 6800GT PCI-E
Antec True Control 500w
Windows XP Pro

Please anybody any suggestions? I'd think it'd be the motherboard. The games I have been playing are NBA Live 06, Madden 06, and Painkiller Gold Edition... All freeze randomly... What would your advice be?
 
Hehe, sorry about your prob. I was asking cause I am having serious problems with some nforce drivers that is why i asked. I run trouble free with 6.53 ver. Maybe it is a PSU problem if you are having trouble powering up.
 
Drivers would have no effect on the system failing to power up. My first suspect would be the PSU. Do you have a one spare one you can try?
 
well thats not even my main concern... its the freezing during gameplay... and it only happens during gaming.... im reformatting everything and if it dont work im gonna make some calls to my mobo company... any help apprecited still

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If you have a bad PSU you should be concerned. If it pops it could take the mobo with it. It may also be the culprit in the freezing. When gaming you're putting the biggest load on the PSU.

Some likely culprits for freezing during gameplay can be caused by memory timing (have you run MEMTEST86+ over night to check memory stability?), bad PSU, overheating (CPU, GPU or motherboard chipset), overclocking, and drivers.

The very fact that you're having power on issues makes the PSU the prime suspect in my book. If you have a spare PSU, just swap out the connections for testing (no need to actually install it in the case yet) and see if it's any better.

Hope this helps...
 
thx for the help... ive yet to see if it freezes again but i have been reformatted my hard drive

where can i get this memory test?

thanks
 
http://www.memtest86.com for the memory-testing software. I second the motion on the PSU being a suspect. I see it's a TrueControl, you checked the output voltages with a digital multimeter? NOT with software or BIOS readings?
 
The only accurate way to check voltages is with a digital multimeter. Onboard voltage monitoring is notoriously unreliable. It's intended only to be used as a RELATIVE measurement of voltage or temperature change.

Also measure 12 volts both at the mobo connector and at one of the HDD connectors. Modern PSUs have dual 12volt rails.
 
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