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Computer Freezes

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Moonman

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I just ordered all the parts I needed to build a computer from Newegg. Here's the list of parts:
-ABIT IS7-G Mobo
-ATI 9500 PRO
-Creative Sound Blaster Audigy
-Pioneer DVD Burner
-Lite-on DVD-ROM
-2x Samsung 512mb DDR PC3200
-Antec SOHO 1080 AMG 430W PSU
-2.8 Ghz Intel Retail
-120GB Seagate SATA 8mb cache
-Samsung Floppy
-Samsung 172t SyncMaster 17"
-Altec Lansing 5.1 Surround Sound 6 piece

Everything seems to work fine. Computer boots up (had to do a little BIOS adjustment because the CPU frequency said 1.4), installed Windows XP Pro, and everything seems to work correctly. The burner works and everything. The problem is that the computer freezes after a bit. After a variable amount of use the computer will freeze up. I noticed this problem when I installed Unreal 2 (nothing but drivers and DVD software is installed), and played the game for a bit. The game runs awesome by the way. Amazing. But just after like... 5-10 min of gameplay the computer freezes up. Keyboard and mouse shutdown. This freeze up causes the game to corrupt so that I need to reinstall to try playing again. I thought it might just be related with games but then even during installation it freezes up, which causes an even bigger problem because now I can't uninstall or install it again. Gotta reinstall windows to fix that. This problem occurs generally. So when I try to watch a DVD on my computer, it will freeze up (although not as fast as Unreal). I don't know what the problem is. I thought it might've been the video card, but then I tried switching it out with my home computer's GeForce ti4200 and the problem still occurs. I was wondering if the computer stuff might be overheating and noticed that my CPU reached temps of 63 C when I ran something that took 50% of the cpu in the background and something else titled PWN reached temps of 55 C. The CPU is normally 50 C and the PWN is 39 C when nothing is running. I have absolutely no idea what's wrong and don't really want to spend money taking it to a technician... I was thinking also that it might be a voltage problem... a lot of writing but can anyone help me ^^?
 
well, 65c sounds a bit insanely high... you wanna lower that to a temp of about 45-48c..... i can't see why its running so hot.... did you tweek something in your bios that you shouldnt have? like upping the multiplier or something? unless you planning on overclocking it, then i woulnt move the multiplier up or down... also, make sure your memory is set at the correct speed and all... try setting everything up to automatic and finiding the latest bios for your motherboard and installing that update... also, it would be best to get the latest catalyst drivers as well.
 
Yea I was thinking my CPU was running at an insanely high temperature... I dunno why it's running that high... the only physical thing that was changed was that we replaced the stock thermal paste pad that was already on the heatsink with another thermal paste. The only BIOS changes I can think of was the changing my dad did to make the CPU frequency 2.8 Ghz instead of the 1.4 Ghz it said. I don't know if any mulitplier stuff was changed and if the CPU is being overclocked. I don't know what it should all look like...
 
well, your bus to core ratio should be 14...and your bus speed should be at 200mhz. (200x14=2800mhz) try using those settings if they arent already there.
 
thermally also, your cpu SHOULD be good up to about 75c MAX though, so keeping it below that is key.... under 60 is money, under 50, thats platinum.... also, make sure that your ddr is in its proper place (im not sure of pentium systems, but in AMD systems, there is only 1 combo in order to run at ddr)
 
iamnotaplant

You're talking about running duel channel, not "running at ddr".

Moonman

My first guess is that the hsf is not properly seated or that cables are obstructing airflow. And yes, you have to change the default bus speed on a new board as you did, as it is set at a safe speed for all cpus that the board supports.
 
The CPU BIOS seems to be fine. The SoftMenu says Ext. Clock (CPU/AGP/PCI): 200/66/33MHz). Ext. New CPU Clock: 2.80. So that seems fine I believe. But the temperature starts from 42 C when the computer is cooled down and first booted up, then reaches 50 C for a normal temp, then 60+ C for 50% CPU usage... but the CPU never reaches the 70 C mark because I have the Hardware monitoring on while I play a game it a warning windown never pops up showing the CPU reaching 70 C. The BIOS is also set to warning at 75 C. So I don't know if it's the CPU being in the 65 C range that causes the computer to crash. The computer also doesn't just crash on video games that use a lot of CPU. It also crashes on anything like playing a DVD movie which takes considerably less CPU. I'm stumped ^^; I also found the latest catalyst drivers and I don't know about changing the BIOS drivers and I don't think the BIOS has anything to do with the crashing...
 
Try pulling a stick of ram out and running it. If the problem persists, put that stick back in and try running with the other one. If it's not the ram, it may be a driver issue. Are you running a suitable psu?
 
Mwaha thank you all for your help ^^. Problem is fixed and yes it was one of the sticks of ram ><. Sending that back to pcsupplysource to get a nice new one ^^
 
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