Occassional System Crashes, assorted other nonsense.

[Augmenter]

Well, I had a bunch of random system crashes happen during printing and installations (strangely enough, not during gaming). Replaced video card, but I had another a few minutes ago while opening a word document. I thought it was my old video card, which managed to get snow and video corruption, and is now on RMA.

However, I am still having problems.

Now, I need some help trying to find out what it is:

Specs:

AMD ATHLON64 3500+ @ stock
ASROCK ULi1695 Chipset Motherboard (those ones with both AGP and PCI Express)
4x 512 DDR SDRAM PC3200 @ stock, reduced motherboard chosen speeds
ASPIRE 500 WATT PSU
40 + 80 GB WD HDs
Audigy 2 Value
Radeon 9800 Pro AGP in slot (used to be 7600GT in PCI-Express slot)
Windows 2000 SP4
Cool N Quiet Enabled


I thought it might be the PSU, but voltages look alright; and so do temps:

Field Value
Sensor Properties
Sensor Type Winbond W83627HF (ISA 290h)

Temperatures
Motherboard 30 °C (86 °F)
CPU 33 °C (91 °F)
WDC WD800JB-00ETA0 31 °C (88 °F)

Cooling Fans
CPU 3245 RPM

Voltage Values
CPU Core 1.31 V
Aux 2.43 V
+3.3 V 3.31 V
+5 V 5.00 V
+12 V 12.40 V
-12 V 4.51 V
+5 V Standby 4.97 V
VBAT Battery 0.06 V
Debug Info F FF 34 FF
Debug Info T 30 33 253
Debug Info V 52 98 CF BA CC EC FF (01)


Any suggestions?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Can you tell us what kind of stop/error messages you're receiving?

 

[pkme2]

Quoted from another source "Aspire > Dangerous! They don't even pretend to meet the ATX/AMD/Intel specs!'

Change PSU's before something serious happens to your rig.

 

[dBTelos]

Originally posted by: pkme2
Quoted from another source "Aspire > Dangerous! They don't even pretend to meet the ATX/AMD/Intel specs!'

Change PSU's before something serious happens to your rig.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=974240

Might want to state a little more then "another source".

 

[bruceb]

Agree ... that sounds like the power supply is starting to go.
Swap it .. if still same trouble, next step would be to run Memtest86

http://memtest86.com/

on the RAM and if that is ok, run a Hard Drive Diagnostic

Also clear out all the Dust and check the Motherboard for Bad Capacitors

http://badcaps.net/

 

[pkme2]

Originally posted by: dBTelos

Originally posted by: pkme2
Quoted from another source "Aspire > Dangerous! They don't even pretend to meet the ATX/AMD/Intel specs!'

Change PSU's before something serious happens to your rig.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=974240

Might want to state a little more then "another source".

Thanks, Howard had it in his sig, but the thread source is better.

 

[Augmenter]

My mistake. It was a 500 Watt PSU.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817148027

Anyway, I'm gonna check my board and run memtest. If that doesn't show a problem, then what PSU do you recommend (for under 50 or 60 $$).

Edit: Also notice (occasionally) some static when unpausing music on Winamp.

 

[pkme2]

Fortron AX450-PN 450W