1st some background...
Built this approx. a year ago:
Raidmax Silver 10-bay Case w/ 420Watt Power Supply
MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
512 MB Corsair-XMS DDR400
LiteOn Black DVD-RW/+RW Drive
LITE-ON BLACK 16X DVD ROM Drive
Hitachi 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
ViewSonic E70F+SB 17" Perfect Flat CRT Monitor
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 PCI Sound Card
+ a 160 GB WD IDE Harddrive I got the day after Thanksgiving...
I was using windows 2000 for a while, but for maybe the last month or so, I would get a couple freezes and lockups, and one day when I was burning a CD, my computer froze...and that put me over the edge...it was time to take action.
This past week I bought Windows XP Pro Upgrade (academic edition or something - for $100 from my college) and installed that (it also came with SP 2). I backed all of my stuff up (That I wanted...pictures..mp3s etc...) onto the 160 GB drive, and formatted the other HD completely and did a clean install. It installed just fine, I got into windows and registered with Microsoft. I was under the impression that I would need to validate Windows XP UPGRADE by proving that I did in fact have a previous verison, but I was never prompted to do this. So I went ahead and downloaded the critical updates, video card, sound drivers, etc for my computer. Installed some games of course....
Then the problems started...
I'm one who tends to leave my computer on (almost) all the time. I never really had any problems with my computer locking up or restarting, but I woke up the next day and my computer was locked up. I thought, "oh maybe it just messed up once," so I restarted, and I opened up AIM, and the second I did this, it locked up again. I restarted, went into the BIOS to change back the settings (You need to have the CD drive as your primary drive or whatever to be able to install XP), so I changed that back, and while I was in the BIOS, my computer restarted itself AGAIN. I began getting frustrated....once back into windows, my computer was fine for the rest of the day (Thursday).
I woke up Friday morning, went to my computer, it wasn't locked up, I moved my mouse to click on something, then it locked up. My mouse just about flew across the room. I restarted, and once in windows, it locked up right then and there on my again like Thursday. I played some WarCraft III: TFT that night, and I had my computer lock up 3 times while sitting in a chat channel-but never had any problems while in game.
Saturday morning, locked up computer once again...and it once again froze while back in windows. Before Windows XP, I did not have these kind of problems. I have had NO error messages this whole time...just lock ups and restarts/computer turning itself off. My computer was fine all day Saturday, I went to a movie saturday night, came home...computer worked fine, girlfriend wanted a cd burned, did that. We decided to go watch a movie out in the living room, after that was over, she left.. I went back to my room to a locked up computer, restarted it, went to the bathroom, came back and it was back in windows already frozen again.
Woke up this morning, computer was not locked up, but I talked to some people and surfed the internet, and it did indeed turn itself off on me. Grr...
Any help would be great-my fans seem to all be working fine... I am getting no error messages.
Thanks for reading.
Built this approx. a year ago:
Raidmax Silver 10-bay Case w/ 420Watt Power Supply
MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
512 MB Corsair-XMS DDR400
LiteOn Black DVD-RW/+RW Drive
LITE-ON BLACK 16X DVD ROM Drive
Hitachi 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
ViewSonic E70F+SB 17" Perfect Flat CRT Monitor
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 PCI Sound Card
+ a 160 GB WD IDE Harddrive I got the day after Thanksgiving...
I was using windows 2000 for a while, but for maybe the last month or so, I would get a couple freezes and lockups, and one day when I was burning a CD, my computer froze...and that put me over the edge...it was time to take action.
This past week I bought Windows XP Pro Upgrade (academic edition or something - for $100 from my college) and installed that (it also came with SP 2). I backed all of my stuff up (That I wanted...pictures..mp3s etc...) onto the 160 GB drive, and formatted the other HD completely and did a clean install. It installed just fine, I got into windows and registered with Microsoft. I was under the impression that I would need to validate Windows XP UPGRADE by proving that I did in fact have a previous verison, but I was never prompted to do this. So I went ahead and downloaded the critical updates, video card, sound drivers, etc for my computer. Installed some games of course....
Then the problems started...
I'm one who tends to leave my computer on (almost) all the time. I never really had any problems with my computer locking up or restarting, but I woke up the next day and my computer was locked up. I thought, "oh maybe it just messed up once," so I restarted, and I opened up AIM, and the second I did this, it locked up again. I restarted, went into the BIOS to change back the settings (You need to have the CD drive as your primary drive or whatever to be able to install XP), so I changed that back, and while I was in the BIOS, my computer restarted itself AGAIN. I began getting frustrated....once back into windows, my computer was fine for the rest of the day (Thursday).
I woke up Friday morning, went to my computer, it wasn't locked up, I moved my mouse to click on something, then it locked up. My mouse just about flew across the room. I restarted, and once in windows, it locked up right then and there on my again like Thursday. I played some WarCraft III: TFT that night, and I had my computer lock up 3 times while sitting in a chat channel-but never had any problems while in game.
Saturday morning, locked up computer once again...and it once again froze while back in windows. Before Windows XP, I did not have these kind of problems. I have had NO error messages this whole time...just lock ups and restarts/computer turning itself off. My computer was fine all day Saturday, I went to a movie saturday night, came home...computer worked fine, girlfriend wanted a cd burned, did that. We decided to go watch a movie out in the living room, after that was over, she left.. I went back to my room to a locked up computer, restarted it, went to the bathroom, came back and it was back in windows already frozen again.
Woke up this morning, computer was not locked up, but I talked to some people and surfed the internet, and it did indeed turn itself off on me. Grr...
Any help would be great-my fans seem to all be working fine... I am getting no error messages.
Thanks for reading.
How about get a proven good-quality brand like Fortron, Antec or Enermax to replace that freebie PSU. Also, if the motherboard is giving the memory 2.5 volts, boost that a bit to 2.6-2.7 volts. If you have the ultra-fancy Corsair XL stuff, make it 2.8 volts.
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