Computer issues...

[Bulldog13]

My computer has for the last month developed a general flakiness.

Sometimes when just cruising the net or using IM, the comp will freeze for about 10 secs. Then my monitor blacks out for about 10, and everything re-appears working fine.

I had trouble running WoW for a little bit, but put in the omega drivers and it is working fine now.

I am running a 3000+ on an m7ncd. 1 gig ram. PNY 6800. 3 optical drivers and 1 ide HD.

Could it be anything besides the PS causing this ? It is a 330 watt Enermax. Computer just randomly freezes. It does not come out of standby and if I leave the screensaver on too long all I get is the black screen.

Thoughts ?

 

[imported_kouch]

easiest way to tell if its the power supply is to check the voltages on your rails, especially the 12v rail. You could do this with a proggie like MBM5 or best with a multimeter.

It is important to know the voltages before assuming anything. It sounds like it may just be windows and some driver/software problems. I say this cause usually with PSU problems, you get random reboots and BSD's and if things freeze, they don't come back in 10 secs.

 

[Thegonagle]

I'm not sure but it seems like the video card might be freezing and resetting itself. (If I understand correctly, newer video cards can be reset by the drivers if they stop responding without requiring a system restart. ATI, for example, calls it "VPU Recover." nVidia might have the same feature and call it something similar.)

Is anything overclocked or soft-modded, especially the video card?

 

[Bulldog13]

Originally posted by: Thegonagle
I'm not sure but it seems like the video card might be freezing and resetting itself. (If I understand correctly, newer video cards can be reset by the drivers if they stop responding without requiring a system restart. ATI, for example, calls it "VPU Recover." nVidia might have the same feature and call it something similar.)

Is anything overclocked or soft-modded, especially the video card?

Nope nothing is soft modded or overclocked. And yes, the system does occasionally reset itself, though not nearly as often.