PC randomly freezes up

[imported_xeno]

Asrock dual sata2 939
amd 3200 939
1 gig pc3200
evga 6800 gs
300 gig ide hd

thats the specs
he reformated the pc with windows home edition
once it boots into windows and its on desktop after a lil while it just freezes

and i am not sure why , because i had the exact same parts in my pc exept my 80 gig hd
and it worked fine

 

[John]

Test for stability before you start troubleshooting software issues.

 

[imported_xeno]

cant really test it crashes before it would even come to the user selection screen or once its booted into windows it would randomly crash
after a short period of time .

 

[dennilfloss]

Is everything running at default settings?

 

[imported_xeno]

yes nothing is oced
but were not really sure what it is

when i was running that spec with my 3800 instead of the 3200 , my ram was in the 2 blue slots
he put the ram in the 2 black spots i am not sure if that matters or not
but were running out of ideas

 

[dennilfloss]

Anything shows with question marks in Device Manager (if you can have Windows stable long enough to access it)?

 

[John]

Originally posted by: xeno
cant really test it crashes before it would even come to the user selection screen or once its booted into windows it would randomly crash
after a short period of time .

You need to start looking at memory if you are crashing so soon. Try different slots, try one at a time, try different latencies, etc.

 

[imported_xeno]

nothing
everything is normal in there

 

[John]

[*]Can you complete 2 passes of memtest86+?
[*]Can you boot into safe mode without crashing?

 

[imported_xeno]

the other problem was whenever he tried to shut down the pc locks up
now that he switched the ram slots to the 2 blue slots
he can restart normally , shut off and pc boots normally
so far its good