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Newly Built PC Freezing/Rebooting

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Lmeadows

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I recently built my first computer and have had problems with it freezing and randomly rebooting mainly during games. I'm hoping you all can help me. Here are my specs.

Antec Black Performance Series II SOHO File Server Tower Case w/ 400 watt power supply
DFI "LANPARTY UT NF3 250Gb" NVIDIA NForce3 250GB Chipset Motherboard - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 512KB L2 Cache 64-Bit Processor - Retal
Corsair Value Select (Dual Pack) 184 Pin 512MBx2 DDR PC-3200 OEM
eVGA geforce fx 5700 Ultra
Western Digital Special Edition 120GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model WD1200JB, OEM
SONY Black 16x DVD-ROM Drive, Model DDU1613/B2s, OEM
Microsoft Windows XP HOME Edition With Service Pack 2

I updated all of my drivers for my video card and my chipset drivers, etc. The computer freezes while playing and I can not turn it off with the front button. I have to turn it off with the switch in the back. Other times it will just reboot after a blue screen pops up on my monitor saying a problem was found or something. (I dont have time to read the message.)

I hope you can help me, if you have any questions ask me and I'll do my best to answer them.
 
Excellent job posting your detailed specs 😎 Got any PCI cards in there too?

On the hardware side, bump your memory voltage up to 2.7 volts to give it a little more juice than it's getting at default AUTO voltage. Also, if your WD hard drive is on its own data cable, confirm it's jumpered for Single Drive and not Master or Slave.

On the software side, look in the Event Viewer logs for events that might shed light on this. Control Panel > Performance & Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer.
 
For future reference you have to keep the front power button held down for it to turn off. Thumbs up to everything that mechBgon said.
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Excellent job posting your detailed specs 😎 Got any PCI cards in there too?

On the hardware side, bump your memory voltage up to 2.7 volts to give it a little more juice than it's getting at default AUTO voltage. Also, if your WD hard drive is on its own data cable, confirm it's jumpered for Single Drive and not Master or Slave.

On the software side, look in the Event Viewer logs for events that might shed light on this. Control Panel > Performance & Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer.
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Nope, no PCI cards at the moment. I'll go bump up the memory voltage to see if that helps. I'm pretty sure that the hard drive is jumpered for single drive and not master or slave. I'll go look in the event viewer right away and post anything that might help find the problem.
 
I put the DRAM voltage at 2.7 volts (Hopefully that was the right setting). When i exited the BIOS and windows started up there were about four error messages saying that my system recovered from a serious error. Also, I looked in the event viewer and saw a lot of warnings under both system and applications, and a few errors under system.
 
Any other suggestions? Should I run memtest or something? My computer is still freezing when I'm playing America's Army :-(
 
Memtest might be a good start, yeah, how about let it run overnight (if you're not out for the night already).
 
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