Right so, basically the system just randomly locks up while doing nothing special in Windows, I've also noticed occasional slowdowns when I'm playing some music and browsing the web at the same time.
As I wrote above, it's not triggered by anything in specific and just happens randomly. 4 days ago, my old motherboard broke down out of the blue. I tested every piece of hardware in it, and ended up replacing it, which seemed to do the trick. The switch I made was from an Intel D975XBX2 to an MSI P6N SLI V2, and everything seemed fine at first. I've tried putting everything under load, but I cannot actually trigger the lockup. With lockup, I mean my system actually locks up: Screen doesn't go black, I don't get a BSOD, it just literally freezes, leaving me with nothing else to do but hit the reset button. Circumstances it occurred under:
- While browsing the web across Toms and Anandtech (I use Firefox) with Winamp and Eclipse loaded
- While having Eclipse loaded up, and loading up Winamp
- While playing Team Fortress 2
Never happened before I switched motherboards.
First thing I did was checking my temperatures, nothing weird there. Then I decided to stress my hardware a bit, and keep an eye on the temperatures at the same time; had Speedfan + GPU-Z loaded on my secondary monitor, and I ran 3DMark Vantage.
Peak for the GPU temperatures was 61 degrees Celsius, nothing weird there. Small note: I've forced the fan speed to 80% through Rivatuner. Idle it runs at about 43/44 degrees.
During the first test, where CPU usage is ~30%, CPU temp rose to ~60 degrees. However, during the fullblown CPU tests (the OPS one for example), where CPU usage goes up to 80-100%, it peaked at 71 degrees, which to be quite honest, scared the living hell out of me. I've never noticed a temperature like this before though, and the CPU runs at ~45-47 degrees when idling, 55 under normal usage (which is the average temp I noticed on the occurances mentioned above).
I haven't checked my memory yet, but they were fine right after I finished assembling everything onto the new motherboard, so if it's broken, it happened shortly after the test.
I checked the PSU with a multimeter when my previous board broke, and it all checked out.
A few details about what happened with my Intel board:
While working in Windows, everything slowed down massively, giving me a nice slideshow for ~10 seconds, after which the system froze. Was forced to hit the reset button, and the screen stayed black. I tested literally everything, but I couldn't get it to work. Once I unplugged my primary HDD, I'd sometimes get image, but most of the time it would still stay black. Replaced the motherboard, and all was good; except for my old primary HDD, which now basically prevents every PC in our house from getting past the BIOS if I plug it in. Really odd problem, and I'm not gonna risk sticking it into any other PC anymore.
A little details about hardware:
- CPU -> Intel Pentium EE 955: stock speeds (3.46GHz = 13x266), stock cooler - fresh cooling paste applied ~4 days ago.
- RAM -> 2x2GB A-Data PC6400 Memory (sorry, don't have the actual model numbers at hand at the moment)
- Mobo -> MSI P6N SLI V2
- GFX -> XFX Geforce 9800GTX, running at stock speeds of 720/1100; fan speed forced to 80% through the driver, rather than the 35% which is the default setting.
- PSU -> Coolermaster RealPower Pro 550W
- Windows Vista Business x64 with SP1 installed, fully updated
- No virus scanner, no firewall
- All drivers are fully up to date.
Anyone got any ideas as to what's going on here?
I find it odd that my CPU's temperature goes up by nearly 30 degrees from putting it under load, but I guess that's due to the fact that it's an older DC one, built on a 65nm process.
On another note: I've been using the system for 7 hours straight now, without any lockups, and I've been loading it up quite heavily.
As I wrote above, it's not triggered by anything in specific and just happens randomly. 4 days ago, my old motherboard broke down out of the blue. I tested every piece of hardware in it, and ended up replacing it, which seemed to do the trick. The switch I made was from an Intel D975XBX2 to an MSI P6N SLI V2, and everything seemed fine at first. I've tried putting everything under load, but I cannot actually trigger the lockup. With lockup, I mean my system actually locks up: Screen doesn't go black, I don't get a BSOD, it just literally freezes, leaving me with nothing else to do but hit the reset button. Circumstances it occurred under:
- While browsing the web across Toms and Anandtech (I use Firefox) with Winamp and Eclipse loaded
- While having Eclipse loaded up, and loading up Winamp
- While playing Team Fortress 2
Never happened before I switched motherboards.
First thing I did was checking my temperatures, nothing weird there. Then I decided to stress my hardware a bit, and keep an eye on the temperatures at the same time; had Speedfan + GPU-Z loaded on my secondary monitor, and I ran 3DMark Vantage.
Peak for the GPU temperatures was 61 degrees Celsius, nothing weird there. Small note: I've forced the fan speed to 80% through Rivatuner. Idle it runs at about 43/44 degrees.
During the first test, where CPU usage is ~30%, CPU temp rose to ~60 degrees. However, during the fullblown CPU tests (the OPS one for example), where CPU usage goes up to 80-100%, it peaked at 71 degrees, which to be quite honest, scared the living hell out of me. I've never noticed a temperature like this before though, and the CPU runs at ~45-47 degrees when idling, 55 under normal usage (which is the average temp I noticed on the occurances mentioned above).
I haven't checked my memory yet, but they were fine right after I finished assembling everything onto the new motherboard, so if it's broken, it happened shortly after the test.
I checked the PSU with a multimeter when my previous board broke, and it all checked out.
A few details about what happened with my Intel board:
While working in Windows, everything slowed down massively, giving me a nice slideshow for ~10 seconds, after which the system froze. Was forced to hit the reset button, and the screen stayed black. I tested literally everything, but I couldn't get it to work. Once I unplugged my primary HDD, I'd sometimes get image, but most of the time it would still stay black. Replaced the motherboard, and all was good; except for my old primary HDD, which now basically prevents every PC in our house from getting past the BIOS if I plug it in. Really odd problem, and I'm not gonna risk sticking it into any other PC anymore.
A little details about hardware:
- CPU -> Intel Pentium EE 955: stock speeds (3.46GHz = 13x266), stock cooler - fresh cooling paste applied ~4 days ago.
- RAM -> 2x2GB A-Data PC6400 Memory (sorry, don't have the actual model numbers at hand at the moment)
- Mobo -> MSI P6N SLI V2
- GFX -> XFX Geforce 9800GTX, running at stock speeds of 720/1100; fan speed forced to 80% through the driver, rather than the 35% which is the default setting.
- PSU -> Coolermaster RealPower Pro 550W
- Windows Vista Business x64 with SP1 installed, fully updated
- No virus scanner, no firewall
- All drivers are fully up to date.
Anyone got any ideas as to what's going on here?
I find it odd that my CPU's temperature goes up by nearly 30 degrees from putting it under load, but I guess that's due to the fact that it's an older DC one, built on a 65nm process.
On another note: I've been using the system for 7 hours straight now, without any lockups, and I've been loading it up quite heavily.
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