So here's the story:
barton 2500+ (stock HSF)
MSI kt400 mobo
1024 megs of ddr 2700 ram
generic 450W PSU (soon to be replaced
GF4 Ti4200 (the asus agp 8x flavour)
Creative live sound card
2 HDD
1 DVD burner
1 CD burner
and it's all running in a TT Xaser III
So back over thanksgiving I got the new mobo/chip and PSU with some ram to boot. Everything was fine until I started getting the occasional random hang up. Tinkered around for a while, realized that the fan on my video card ate. Figured, ok that's what it is, buy a new fan ( a nice vantec iceberQ) and call it a day.
Get the fan, put it on boot everything up...same problem. By now I've updated every driver known to man, done a repair install of windows, the works. Now for a while I was getting the venerable infinite loop for a while I was getting the venerable infinite loop error. But for the last few months haven't even gotten the pleasure of an error screen.
Basically what happens is that the screen freezes up, for about 5-10 seconds, I can move the mouse around and you can see objects being highlighted but the cursor doesn't move then my screen stops outputting. If my screen had been made in this millenium it would say something like display out of range or no input detected.
Now my first guess would be vid card, but the thing is I can play Far Cry for hours and it will be fine. I'll play anything under the sun for as long as I want and it will be fine, but god forbid I try to watch a movie. I'm lucky if it only freezes three times on me. Browsing? Ha! might be 2 minutes, or it might be 2 hours, but it's going down.
I've got a new PSU on the way, and when I go home (doing a few credits over the spring, trying to get my degree on time
I'm going to bring my ram back to where I bought, it's been doing funny things.
I'm just wondering if anyone has any other ideas on what's going on or has seen something like this before?
barton 2500+ (stock HSF)
MSI kt400 mobo
1024 megs of ddr 2700 ram
generic 450W PSU (soon to be replaced
GF4 Ti4200 (the asus agp 8x flavour)
Creative live sound card
2 HDD
1 DVD burner
1 CD burner
and it's all running in a TT Xaser III
So back over thanksgiving I got the new mobo/chip and PSU with some ram to boot. Everything was fine until I started getting the occasional random hang up. Tinkered around for a while, realized that the fan on my video card ate. Figured, ok that's what it is, buy a new fan ( a nice vantec iceberQ) and call it a day.
Get the fan, put it on boot everything up...same problem. By now I've updated every driver known to man, done a repair install of windows, the works. Now for a while I was getting the venerable infinite loop for a while I was getting the venerable infinite loop error. But for the last few months haven't even gotten the pleasure of an error screen.
Basically what happens is that the screen freezes up, for about 5-10 seconds, I can move the mouse around and you can see objects being highlighted but the cursor doesn't move then my screen stops outputting. If my screen had been made in this millenium it would say something like display out of range or no input detected.
Now my first guess would be vid card, but the thing is I can play Far Cry for hours and it will be fine. I'll play anything under the sun for as long as I want and it will be fine, but god forbid I try to watch a movie. I'm lucky if it only freezes three times on me. Browsing? Ha! might be 2 minutes, or it might be 2 hours, but it's going down.
I've got a new PSU on the way, and when I go home (doing a few credits over the spring, trying to get my degree on time
I'm going to bring my ram back to where I bought, it's been doing funny things. I'm just wondering if anyone has any other ideas on what's going on or has seen something like this before?
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