Computer crashes....

[wacki]

My computer either locks up or crahes at various times. It always locks up/crashes when I try to turn a certain wav file into mp3 using audacity/lame. It decides to reboot at seemingly random times.

I did a memtest86 and no problems there.

Windows crash report says "driver but can't figure out which one" other times nothing.....



Help?

 

[blodhi74]

system specs ... please

 

[daveybrat]

yeah, more specs definitely needed.........It's like telling your doctor "i don't feel good", what's wrong with me??

 

[wacki]

Asus a7n8x deluxe
AMD 2400+
Thermalright copper 3 heatpipe monster SP-97?
Seagate barracuda IV 200 gig
Maxtor 200gig
Sparkle power supply (very good and stable voltages)
512 MB + 256 MB kingston ram which passed memtest86
radeon 9600

Windows XP
spybot S&D
Norton antivirus
microsoft antispy
drivers all newest patches.

Hardware passes all burn in tests. This is a software/driver problem.

 

[wacki]

bump

 

[flippe]

Umm, you overclocking any? Could possibly be an IRQ conflict with one of your pci cards and gfx card.

 

[wacki]

no overclocking

 

[flippe]

Try moving your sound card into to different PCI slots.

 

[wacki]

Solved the problem. It was dust causing the CPU to overheat