system freezing (another one!)

[causticsoda]

hi,

my system is as follows:

Pentium 3 450mhz
DFI P2XBL
128mb sdram (2x 64mb)
Sound Blaster Live! value
Leadtek 64mb geforce2 pro
internal modem
40x CD-rom
4x4x24 burner
12gig seagate
2gig IBM

recenly it has started to freeze alot. It ussually freezes when loading a complex webpage or game.
It used to happen vary rarley when i had a voodoo3, but since i have upgraded to geforce2 it is happening very frequently.
I initially thought that it had to be a power supply issue, but have tried unpluging all cd-roms and 1 hard drive and the problem still occours.

my next thought is that it is a faulty ram problem? is there any way to test this? any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

i have formatted many times and tried with win98se, winme and win2000 and the problem still happens. so it is a hardware problem for sure.

thanks alot.

cheers,

Glenn Thomas

 

[ddeder]

Check to make sure you have the most recent drivers for your new video card. Have you considered reinstalling your old video card to see if the lockups disappear?

 

[causticsoda]

i have tried using the latest drivers for all my hardware, the problem still occours.

the old voodoo3 died on me so i cant test it by swapping it. if it isnt a problem with any other hardware i shall have to borrow a video card to test that.

 

[foofoo]

usually memory errors result in blue screens or obvious error messages. i've seen this happen when hard drives start to go bad and have to retry a lot when trying to cache pages on the disk. this shows up as a freeze until the disk retries finally work. do you have another hd you can put an os onto and try?

 

[causticsoda]

i do have another hard drive, i will try that next. though i dont think it is the problem as there is no hard-drive thrashing or anything before the system hangs, it will just suddenly freeze dead, sometimes with a high pitched squeal in the speakers. i will try another hard drive though.

thanks,

Glenn Thomas

 

[Saltin]

It could be a heat issue as well. The 64mb Leadtek runs a lot hotter than the Voodoo. Maybe you should look into another fan (case or pci)

 

[indianduddawg47]

is there any pci cards in pci slot 1 (the slot under the agp port)