Hardware becoming unstable (no oc')

[taylor34]

Hey Guys--

I'm wondering if any of you have experienced this. Since june, i've been running the same 1.33 ghz thunderbird asus a7v133 combo with a 32 meg radeon ddr and sb live (same drivers--never been changed since then). I've never had any problems till a couple of weeks ago, when suddenly I started getting blue screens of death in nhl 2002 and crashes in rogue squadron. I was running 1.33 ghz with 133 mhz ram, cas 2 (crucial) at optimal system settings. However, this no longer seems to work. If I change my computer to 1.30 ghz with cas 3 ram and normal system settings, i get no more blue screens. If anyone of those is activated though, back to blue screens I go. Any suggestions? Is my ram bitin' the dust for some reason? It's only nhl 2002 and rogue squadron that have the problems--nothing else does. Thanks--I guess 1.3 is fast enough but it bugs me that I could be running 5 to 10% faster. :>

Taylor34

 

[pillage2001]

What's the temperature of your CPU?? Maybe heat related.

 

[Amik]

Just a dumb suggestion here. I was getting similiar problems with the weird blue screens and random lock ups. I was testing a 40 gig Seagate for my dad since he had trouble with it and we wanted to make sure before we called Seagate. The story, the drive was partition in 2 20 gig partitions, if Drive D: would get below 5 gigabyte free it would literally nuke Drive (C. So I was filling it up with mp3's and other junk and sure enough the computer just locked up cold. I booted up with a startup disk and again, sure enough, Drive (C was gone (No partition in fdisk, nothing). So I removed the drive and stuck in my 20 gigger (Boot drive/storage etc...) and the computer locked at Verifying DMI Data Pool before going into Windows. Jumpers were correct and everything should've been fine...

Now down to the fix... basically what I had to do (The computer was acting a little peculiar before hand on that one with the blue screens and junk but figured it was just Windows as normal, lol) is tear the computer apart, take out and reseat all the cards.. even took the time to clean up some of the fans and power supply and stuff and it's running beautifully again. Sometime it isn't necessarily hardware failure that is the problem but just giving the computer a little TLC. Anyway, sorry for the long winded post, and hope you make out ok.

 

[NesuD]

first thing i would do is go into msconfig in the startup tab and uncheck everything except explorer and systray then see if it still does it if it starts running stable as it used to then there is some software wacked out most likely that is toasting everything at those settings. If that is the case then start turning on each item in startup one by one and testing each to see if the system becomes unstable. Once you have identified the offending app just uninstall it. It's amazing how often problems that appear hardware related are actually the result of a misbehaving startup app.