AHHH PC Randomly freezing....

[goblue420]

My comp randomly freezes usually after its been on around 5 hrs, i tried reinstalling winxp but that didnt help so i know its a hardware problem, i tried a different vid card and it still did it, pulled my tv card and my audigy and still does it, used cpuburn to push my cpu temps to 55C, that didnt cause the system to crash, so im stuck now i dk what to do, oh i tried another psu too.

Asus P4t533-C
Intel P4 1.6 @ 2.1 <-- Clocking it to normal dosent help
512 MB RDRAM
Gainward Ti4200 128MB
SB Audigy1
Dell 1901fp

anyone have any ideas here?

 

[sisooktom]

Have you disabled all types of power management?

 

[goblue420]

Originally posted by: sisooktom
Have you disabled all types of power management?

yep tried this already, the strange thing is that this comp used to be perfectly fine, this just started happening out of the blue

 

[viivo]

Did you run Memtest86?

 

[goblue420]

Originally posted by: viivo
Did you run Memtest86?

OK just ran it this morning and it froze up at 88% but didnt give me errors, now does this mean that my ram is faulty or could it be the mobo/proc? I wanna know before i throw down another 150 for new RDRAM

thx

 

[jacktesterson]

Could be a thermal issue as well....maybe a hard-drive thats getting closer to failing if its not the RAM

if it gets more frequent and it is the drive, you can freeze the drive in a ziplock over nite and put it in your PC the next morning out of the bag and should last to backup your stuff

try somebody elses ram in your PC if you can to test

 

[Ryoga]

If Memtest86 is locking the system, my first suspect would be the motherboard (and it would exclude the HDD, OS, and CD). I'd try testing your RAM one stick at a time first. AMDHardcoreFan's suggestion to try different (known working) RAM is a good idea, too.

Try a different floppy with Memtest86, and do a complete format of it (not a quick one). Those things corrupt easily.

 

[goblue420]

Originally posted by: Ryoga
If Memtest86 is locking the system, my first suspect would be the motherboard (and it would exclude the HDD, OS, and CD). I'd try testing your RAM one stick at a time first. AMDHardcoreFan's suggestion to try different (known working) RAM is a good idea, too.

Try a different floppy with Memtest86, and do a complete format of it (not a quick one). Those things corrupt easily.

I cant test my ram one stick at a time b/c its rdram, it needs pairs 🙁 and as for the floppy i dont have a floppy drive its running off a bootablecd, i want to try other ram but no one seems to have rdram i can borrow

 

[Ryoga]

Oh, right.... Sorry I've blocked RDRAM as much as I can.

You can use Nero CD/DVD Speed to check to see if your CD has any read errors. Memtest86 should simply not be crashing unless your memory sticks are seriously damaged.

Turn off fast boot in the BIOS so it forces the full memory count.