*EDIT*Please help Diagnose my problem. ITS FIXED!@#$

[chasem]

I am experincing freqent freeze-ups. When it happens, I hear a loud humming noise, coming from my speakers. a LOUD, ANNYOING noise.

I have an abit kt7a-raid motherboard. I dont use the onboard raid, its not even hookedup to any devices. i have 3 256 DIMMs.
1.1 ghz athlon. With a pretty good fan on it. 4 case fans. a dvd, 24x plextor, 4 maxtor hdds. WHen ever i do something proccessor intensive, I crash. (IE: alt+tab outta games, close or open a lot of stuff real fast, burn a cd at 24x,m etc.). Im trying to isolate the probelm down to one area of hardware, becuase i do beilive its hardware. I have the antec alienware case, and the side of it is open, with all fans running and a huge fan blowing directaly on it, i dont think cooling is a problem. The case is stored in a wooded enclosement, maybe the heat from that damagaed the cpu? How could I narrow it down to one peice of hardware?

Thanks

btw, it was my power supply, not providing enough power for cpu spikes... i realllllyy hope this helps someone, ive put up with this for like 9 months.

 

[tornadobox]

are you using a sound blaster audigy card? this sounds like the audigy bug to me (just a guess without knowing your complete specs).

 

[chasem]

Well, I have a soundblaster live, and this same problem has happened many times, after formats. I dont think its my soundcard...... I wish it was though.


And another thing. Sometimes when i can tell its getting shaky, There will be light cracking and popping noises from the speakers. sometimes they crash after this, sometimes they just go back to normal....

I had this same soundcard running on a diff mobo/cpu, and it worked wonderfully, thats why i belive it is my cpu/mobo/ram. Becuase when i switched cpu/mobo Is when it started to happen. But the thing is, they friend i got this cpu/mobo set from says that his ran flawlessly

 

[chasem]

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the power supply idea sounds like a good one. Becuase like he said, it ran rock solid on his other copmp

 

[Yossarian]

I would start by unplugging all that crap. Get it down to the basics, including one hard drive, and run stuff like Prime95. As each piece checks out add another and repeat the process.

 

[chasem]

^^^^^^^^^^^
what is prime95? And i have hard times recreating the crash...

 

[chasem]

Im running prime95, and have been for the past 10 minutes, my comp is still solid. Im not even getting any speaker crackle. Maybe cooling isnt the problem. I think its my PSU. I only crash when i go like from 3%-100%, just huge cpu changes