Hi,
I'm having a strange problem with my computer. The system stops responding at various point. I don't get a blue screen. There's just no response from my computer, whatever I do (the mouse pointer won't move, ctrl+alt+del doesn't do a thing, but the most important is that the activity lights on my ram modules stop moving, they freeze at about 4 yellow stripes).
This thing happened when I first had my computer. It seemed to stop after a while. I thought it was an overheating problem, so I've changed to thermal paste for some arcticsilver5 and added a new fan to the case (I got 1 in front and 2 in the back). The CPU's running at 55 Celcius and the MB is at about 24 celcius, which is not high at all.
But now, for a few days, it started freezing more often. I used to be able to run my CPU for a week without restarting. Now, it seems to freeze at every 3 hours or so. I did nothing special, as far as I know.
I have no known virus (norton antivirus 2004 running, full scan completed) and no known spyware (ad-aware 1.5 se went through).
Here's a summary of my system:
CPU-Z Report
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CPU-Z version 1.28.3.
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1
Name AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Code Name NewCastle
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
Family / Model / Stepping F F 0
Extended Family / Model F F
Brand ID 4
Package Socket 939
Core Stepping DH7-CG
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, x86-64
CPU Clock Speed 2202.8 MHz
Clock multiplier x 11.0
HTT Bus Frequency 200.3 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2202.8 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 128 bits
Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Motherboard model A8V Deluxe, Rev 1.xx
BIOS vendor American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS revision 1009.007
BIOS release date 12/22/2004
Chipset VIA K8T800 Pro rev. 0
Southbridge VIA VT8237 rev. 0
Sensor chip Winbond W83627THF
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfer Rate 8x
AGP Max Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled
AGP Aperture Size 64 MBytes
Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 200.3 MHz
FSB😀RAM CPU/11
CAS# Latency 2.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 2 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 6 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 11 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c
HD is a maxtor 300 gig SATA drive
GPU is Asus v9999 ge (geforce 6800std + gddr3)
All my bioses and drivers are the latest.
Great thanks if you have any clue.
Oh, also, I runned memtest86 last spring from some cycles and nothing seemed wrong.
Some friends suggested me either the ram (but the test didn't showed any sign) or the power supply that could be defectuous (it's an Antec True430 (430 Watts), new from August 2004 (as all the other pieces).
Thanks.
I'm having a strange problem with my computer. The system stops responding at various point. I don't get a blue screen. There's just no response from my computer, whatever I do (the mouse pointer won't move, ctrl+alt+del doesn't do a thing, but the most important is that the activity lights on my ram modules stop moving, they freeze at about 4 yellow stripes).
This thing happened when I first had my computer. It seemed to stop after a while. I thought it was an overheating problem, so I've changed to thermal paste for some arcticsilver5 and added a new fan to the case (I got 1 in front and 2 in the back). The CPU's running at 55 Celcius and the MB is at about 24 celcius, which is not high at all.
But now, for a few days, it started freezing more often. I used to be able to run my CPU for a week without restarting. Now, it seems to freeze at every 3 hours or so. I did nothing special, as far as I know.
I have no known virus (norton antivirus 2004 running, full scan completed) and no known spyware (ad-aware 1.5 se went through).
Here's a summary of my system:
CPU-Z Report
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CPU-Z version 1.28.3.
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1
Name AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Code Name NewCastle
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
Family / Model / Stepping F F 0
Extended Family / Model F F
Brand ID 4
Package Socket 939
Core Stepping DH7-CG
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, x86-64
CPU Clock Speed 2202.8 MHz
Clock multiplier x 11.0
HTT Bus Frequency 200.3 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2202.8 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 128 bits
Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Motherboard model A8V Deluxe, Rev 1.xx
BIOS vendor American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS revision 1009.007
BIOS release date 12/22/2004
Chipset VIA K8T800 Pro rev. 0
Southbridge VIA VT8237 rev. 0
Sensor chip Winbond W83627THF
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfer Rate 8x
AGP Max Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled
AGP Aperture Size 64 MBytes
Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 200.3 MHz
FSB😀RAM CPU/11
CAS# Latency 2.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 2 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 6 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 11 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c
HD is a maxtor 300 gig SATA drive
GPU is Asus v9999 ge (geforce 6800std + gddr3)
All my bioses and drivers are the latest.
Great thanks if you have any clue.
Oh, also, I runned memtest86 last spring from some cycles and nothing seemed wrong.
Some friends suggested me either the ram (but the test didn't showed any sign) or the power supply that could be defectuous (it's an Antec True430 (430 Watts), new from August 2004 (as all the other pieces).
Thanks.
