help! constant freezing for no reason.

[cheasus]

I built my computer recently and I've formatted it several times but I seem to have (somewhat) random freezes in windows. I tested out different memory and video card so they can't be the problem. I think it could be the hard drive, but it had no problems before. Is there any good way to check if its my hard drive? I ran all the check disk and defrag but I have had no results. I updated my bios and also put fail-save settings on it with no luck. I don't have another hard drive at my disposle at the moment, but if I'm sure its the hard drive's fault I could break out a 8gb WD dying drive to test on. Its not because of cpu overheating because I haven't had my cpu go over 35 degrees C, and I don't overclock.

Abit KV8-MAX3
Athlon 64 2800+
radeon 9500 pro
512mb - Kingston HyperX ddr4000
512mb - Crucial ddr3200
Maxtor 120gb 8mb cache
thermaltake Aquarius II Liquid Cooling

 

[cheasus]

btw

450 W PS NSpire

I also ran a burnin test from sandra overnight a few days ago and it ran fine thru it and didn'[t even get that hot, was under 34C when I woke up.

 

[slpaulson]

How do the voltages look?
I've never heard of NSpire before, so that would be my first guess.


Did you try it with just one stick of ram in at a time?

And do you have the latest bios for your motherboard?

 

[amdskip]

450 W PS NSpire

Ding ding, you need to run a name brand power supply such as antec or enermax. A 350w brand name ps will work better than a NSpire.

I really don't think 35c is a realistic temp either. It should be running 38-50. Are you sure you don't mean the case temp?

 

[cheasus]

Originally posted by: cRazYdood
How do the voltages look?
I've never heard of NSpire before, so that would be my first guess.


Did you try it with just one stick of ram in at a time?

And do you have the latest bios for your motherboard?

I did try with one of the sticks and I also put in a old kingston 256mb ddr2100 and it still froze. I'm not sure about what numbers are good for the powersupply, but I've used it for a quite a while on my previous system, has been pretty reliable. I can see all the voltages from my mobo windows program, what numbers should I have? I did update the bios today and it froze on the next boot regardless.

on the box of the ps it says
input: 115/230V but i think thats kinda irrelevent?

 

[cheasus]

Originally posted by: amdskip

450 W PS NSpire

Ding ding, you need to run a name brand power supply such as antec or enermax. A 350w brand name ps will work better than a NSpire.

I really don't think 35c is a realistic temp either. It should be running 38-50. Are you sure you don't mean the case temp?

I mean my cpu temps, I have higher case temps than that lol. I have a cheap water cooling system so I usually get between 28-33C

 

[cheasus]

Current voltage settings

Vcore 1.56
DDRVdd 2.65
+3.3V 3.33
+5V 5.09
+12V 12.16
AGPV 1.60
DDRVtt 1.34
5VSB 5.11

 

[cheasus]

ran maxtors diagnostics boot disk and it came out to be perfectly fine. What else could it be?

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: cheasus
ran maxtors diagnostics boot disk and it came out to be perfectly fine. What else could it be?

It could be an OS issue. Does this happen when you boot in safe mode?

 

[cheasus]

I remember being in safe mode, the problem did NOT occur. I'm starting to believe its a os/software/drivers problem now too. It's either that or the motherboard. I ran the SiSoftware Sandra burnin test again and it didn't freeze up at all. This implies most of my hardware isn't the problem. I formatted several times, maybe windows xp just sucks with athlon 64? I might try the beta version of windows xp 64-bit, as well as a linux os for dual boot and see what happens.

any more suggestions?

 

[cheasus]

The problem *seems* solved.

I switched out the memory and video card again to see if they were the culprits. It ran fine, through things that always froze otherways. I put one stick of the original memory back in (hyperx) and it froze in the same process. It *seems* okay now with my crucial stick. I guess the culprit is the kingston hyperx ddr4000. Good thing it has a lifetime warrenty. It cost a pretty penny though, and I haven't used it for more than a few months.

thanks for the suggestions, ill be back if the problem isn't actually gone.

 

[mechBgon]

If the memory was set for Auto voltage in the motherboard's BIOS, definitely raise it to 2.7 volts for what you've got there. 2.5 volts is wonderful for PC2100, but you're a few notches up the scale there. 😉