Applications have started crashing

[madh83]

So, I've had this overclock running for about a year and it was stable. Recently, applications have started crashing sporadically, but no boot problems. Most of the time it's still fine, but when I play games it starts crashing much more quickly. I checked temperatures with intelburntest and it goes through 40 passes fine. The cpu is a e4500, and motherboard is a gigabyte g45 ud3p. My memory configuration is a little weird because i've been using 2x1gb and 2x512mb from different manufacturers, BUT it worked before and the memory is kept at default speed and voltages.

If I go back to stock settings, the system seems to be completely stable again. I can run games without crashing for long periods of time. I'm waiting for memtest to complete right now but wanted to check. So, I'm wondering what's wrong with it, is it the memory or cpu?

 

[Tuna-Fish]

So, I'm wondering what's wrong with it, is it the memory or cpu?

Could be basically anything. CPU, memory, motherboard, PSU (if the quality of the voltages the PSU outputs has gone down with it's age, this can lead to the processor failing on overclocks that it used to be stable on when it got stabler voltages.)

You need more data.

 

[sm625]

Start raising voltages. If it is the memory then it will go away when raising the memory voltage. If it is the cpu then it will go away when raising the cpu voltage. If it is the fsb then it will go away when raising the fsb voltage.

 

[tweakboy]

If your getting POST screen , then your doing fine. As for your OC that wasnt stable.. try vcore up in BIOS like people said... install latest nvidia or ati , whichever you have. Get back to us to see what you can do on vc oc. gl

 

[Arkadrel]

If I go back to stock settings, the system seems to be completely stable again.

If you hadnt said that part, Id have suggested you try something like reinstalling or such.

But that basically seals the deal, its hardware based (sounds that way).

So something is dieing, be that Ram,HD,Cpu,GPU,Psu?

If your planning a upgrade at some point, Id just consider changeing the intire thing out... or start borrowing parts from another, and testing the system 1 peice of hardware at a time to find the "culprit".

 

[veri745]

Something might not be "dying" per se, but definitely degrading. I agree with all the other suggestions about isolating which component is at fault by adjusting voltages, or you could possibly just start from scratch and re-overclock your system.

 

[madh83]

thanks for the feedback guys, sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I played with voltages fora while, but it just wouldn't stay stable. I ended up just buying new ram. which seems to have done the trick so far.

 

[Nemesis 1]

So, I've had this overclock running for about a year and it was stable. Recently, applications have started crashing sporadically, but no boot problems. Most of the time it's still fine, but when I play games it starts crashing much more quickly. I checked temperatures with intelburntest and it goes through 40 passes fine. The cpu is a e4500, and motherboard is a gigabyte g45 ud3p. My memory configuration is a little weird because i've been using 2x1gb and 2x512mb from different manufacturers, BUT it worked before and the memory is kept at default speed and voltages.

If I go back to stock settings, the system seems to be completely stable again. I can run games without crashing for long periods of time. I'm waiting for memtest to complete right now but wanted to check. So, I'm wondering what's wrong with it, is it the memory or cpu?

Memory

Sorry didn't see ya solved your problem

 

[Vesku]

Did you check the motherboard chip temps? I recently diagnosed some disk access blue screens to a Gigabyte 760g board that's southbridge hovered in the 70C area according to several temp programs. Swapped to another board and the problem is gone.