Computer freezes like clockwork

[TridenT]

09:11:45
I am in my BIOS.
09:13:11
I am still in my BIOS. I am watching the clock.
09:14:52
Clock no longer moves... System is frozen.

It's like clockwork. I get about three minutes of uptime and then... Frozen.

This didn't happen until I put my system back in the case.

 

[TridenT]

I think it was due to adding on a USB/Firewire thingy. It's like a blade that goes in the back of the computer that you put in and it gives you two new USB ports and a firewire port. I unplugged that and it's been working so far.

 

[wanderer27]

A few things come to mind.

Do you need to set a BIOS parameter for this device?

Do you need to change any jumpers on your MB to use this - may need to check the MB manual.

Do you need special Drivers for this?

It really sounds like an IRQ/Resource conflict to me though.
You'll probably need to change which IRQ it's using, and you may need to pull out a lot of PCI slot devices to get into Windows to do this.

 

[mpilchfamily]

It wouldn't take a couple of minutes fro an IRQ conflict to show itself and lock the system up.

How are your temps?

 

[jackschmittusa]

sonds as though you are talking about an addin card with additional ports.

If nothing was plugged into the card, I would suspect that the card is faulty.

 

[TridenT]

Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
sonds as though you are talking about an addin card with additional ports.

If nothing was plugged into the card, I would suspect that the card is faulty.

No, there was stuff plugged in.

When I plugged the thing into a different USB add-in port it gave me an error about USB over-something other shutting down in 15 seconds. So I moved it one blue-pin-box over and it worked fine and then my system froze after 3 minutes.

I had stuff plugged into it, but those things work fine on my main-motherboard connections.

Idk. I miss having 8 USB ports instead of 6. I have to actually unplug things in order to use all my stuff now.