Computer Freezes

[Thanks2C]

I'm having a lot of problems with my new box (about 3 months) freezing. I have a Soyo Dragon Plus, Athlon XP 1900+, 512mb DDR RAM PC2100, GeForce 3 Ti 500.

It tends to freeze a lot when I'm playing games, like once an hour, but without playing games it's maybe once a day. When it freezes like this I have a loud continuous sound. It also happens when I'm doing stuff with imaging and my webcam. It also freezes when I log out of WinXP and leave my computer on for a while when I'm away. I come back and it's frozen. This one has no sound, just frozen.

I have no idea what the problem is. Anybody have any idea?

 

[Thanks2C]

bump

 

[underpaid]

What sound card are you using? NIC installed?

 

[Dink]

What PSU as well?

 

[Thanks2C]

I have Soundblaster Audigy...when I first installed the sound card I had problems, but I moved it to PCI 5 which made it work fine.

What do you mean by PSU?

 

[Thanks2C]

Oh, and the NIC is the one that comes with the mobo.

 

[XRdirtHead]

Format your HD and life will be back to normal...well maybe

 

[nirgis]

psu is power suply

you could try reformating, but it sounds more like a hardware error

heat, power suply, or ram problems are my thought

 

[biofobia]

Thanks2c, I have the same problem dude, well I did.... where did you buy your comp or did you build.... I have a problem, when playing games, high graphic, it just stops and this irritating clicking sound comes out the speakers and I had constant freezing in WINXP and then I installed WIn2k only for games now like every 45 minutes... I believe it is the cooling but im riiping apart this comp and building another...

Motherboard: Abit KR7A-133Raid
Processor: Amd Athlon XP 1900+
Heatsink: Alpha PAL 8045 w/ Panaflo 80mm H1A Fan at 39CFM and 32DB Noise
Memory: Crucial 512mb PC2100 DDR 64x64
Memory Heatspreader: ThermalTake Heatspreader w/ Ramsinks
HD: Maxtor Quiet Drive 80GB 7200RPM ATA 133/100
Case: Enermax CS-003-01WB 300W
Cooling Fans: 1 120mm Panaflo L1A (68.9 CFM/ 30 DB) Intake in front -- 1 80mm exhaust on side -- 1 80mm exhaust on top -- 1 80mm Panaflo H1A exhaust on rear
Network Card: Linksys LNE100TX ETHERFAST 10/100 LAN CARD
Floppy: Sony Floppy Drive
Graphics Card: Visiontek Xtasy 6964 Geforce 3 TI 500
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Live 5.1 X-Gamer
DVD-Rom: Lite-On 16x/48x
CD-RW: Mitsumi 16x/8x/40x


THe one I had was xp 1900+, 1 gig sdram, visiontek g3 ti 500, sb live 5.1 x-gamer

try cooling or IRQ conflict solutions

 

[biofobia]

if you find solution please email me at biofobia@mail.ru please.. thanks