Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe has random Freezes...

[CK Kyleag]

Athlon 64 3500+ @ stock settings
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
2x512 Corsair PC400 @ 200 MHZ (2.5 4 4 6)

My PC froze and apon restarting I couldn't boot. So, I tryed to reinstall windows. When windows froze during the install I figured it was the MOBO. I RMA it back to ASUS (that sucked) and when I finally got my replacement everything looked good. Then I started to get random freezes, where I had to restart. It's not from CPU usage or mem usage. I ran MEM test over night with no errors. My Vcore is a little low but, I'm not to sure if its the PSU. Any pointers? I'm stuck. THANKS

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Athlon 64 6500+, ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, 1 GB Corsair 2.5 3 3 4, NVidia GeForce 6600GT, WD 37.6 10,000 RPM, Maxtor 250 SATA 150, XP Pro

 

[Insomniak]

Got another PSU around that you can try? This reeks of a power problem.

 

[akugami]

What Insomniak said, what PSU do you have anyways and how many watts?

 

[CK Kyleag]

I am using a Thermaltake Purepower 420 Watt PSU. Should I test this with a Digital Multi-Meter?

 

[frro]

Hi,
I had also random freezes. It caused me some headache.
I verified all my hardware ? from my PSU (Enermax 650watt) to my GC (leadtek PX6600 GT TDH) etc... I also tested different drivers version (from Asus, Nvidia, AMD CPU drivers etc... It was not a temperature problem ... There were no event in journals... only some occasional freezes that were forcing me to reboot (hardware reset) my PC.

Thanks to the thread :
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/fri-sep-02-2005-1216-am-vp507133.html

The culprit seems related to the ethernet Marvell drivers that I updated (during august I think) to version 8.35 using the Microsoft update process.
For sure, a fallback to previous version of Marvell Ukon drivers completely solved my problem (one week without freezes for now).

Maybe the very new drivers version 8.39.3.3 just delivered at www.marvell.com on sept 7th would have also solve my problem but I didn't test them.

 

[CK Kyleag]

I Tryed your fix frro and it seems to be running like a champ!!!!!!! Thanks.