My friend has emailed me with a problem. Read below, but it seems his computer becomes unresponsive/freezes after a few minutes of being on.. read on
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AMD 2800+ underclocked, BIOS reports it as a 2200+
Gigabyte GA-7n400 Pro2 motherboard
512 megs ram
radeon 9800
120 gig ata hard drive, 40 gig windows partition, 80 gig backup files
(music, pr0n, etc.) partition
antec power supply, came with the case
Computer has been freezing, not like traditional slowing or freezing
up from running heavy applications, but completly locking up. The
mouse stops dead in it's tracks, videos pause, ctrl+alt+del does
nothing, restarting is the only fix but the computer does not restart
on it's own, in fact it can remain in this frozen state for several
hours. It seems to happen very sporadically, sometimes I can run BF2
for hours, other times it happens after 15 minutes of browsing on
firefox. Now it's to the point I can only run my computer for 5-10 min
intervals.
reformatted twice, made no difference
thought it could be my processor overheating, motherboard was
reporting it at 48c even when underclocked. I opened my case and found
my heatsink was wrapped in dust and lint, it looked like someone took
a lint trap and emptied it into the case. I cleaned that and removed
the heatsink. I didn't realize running a computer without a heatsink
was a bad idea, and burned my finger on the processor. It hurt like a
bitch but nothing permanent. I put the heatsink back on with no
change. I also didn't realize not having thermal compound was a big
problem. Got some arctic silver and applied it and reassembled
everything. processor now running around 40c, still underclocked.
Just recently I started getting more wierd problems, my firefox
favorites get erased or scrambled on every restart, even if I wasn't
using it at all. Zone alarm keeps giving me new requests for simple
programs like AIM and AVG that have always been granted access before.
Every single time I restart now, it gives me that blue screen telling
me my disks need to be checked for consistency.
A friend of mine suggested it might be the power supply, thats fine by
me I wanted one of those modular ones anyway. I figure I can probly
scam my parents for one by telling them my computer died. Maybe I can
get a new case too, we'll see.
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AMD 2800+ underclocked, BIOS reports it as a 2200+
Gigabyte GA-7n400 Pro2 motherboard
512 megs ram
radeon 9800
120 gig ata hard drive, 40 gig windows partition, 80 gig backup files
(music, pr0n, etc.) partition
antec power supply, came with the case
Computer has been freezing, not like traditional slowing or freezing
up from running heavy applications, but completly locking up. The
mouse stops dead in it's tracks, videos pause, ctrl+alt+del does
nothing, restarting is the only fix but the computer does not restart
on it's own, in fact it can remain in this frozen state for several
hours. It seems to happen very sporadically, sometimes I can run BF2
for hours, other times it happens after 15 minutes of browsing on
firefox. Now it's to the point I can only run my computer for 5-10 min
intervals.
reformatted twice, made no difference
thought it could be my processor overheating, motherboard was
reporting it at 48c even when underclocked. I opened my case and found
my heatsink was wrapped in dust and lint, it looked like someone took
a lint trap and emptied it into the case. I cleaned that and removed
the heatsink. I didn't realize running a computer without a heatsink
was a bad idea, and burned my finger on the processor. It hurt like a
bitch but nothing permanent. I put the heatsink back on with no
change. I also didn't realize not having thermal compound was a big
problem. Got some arctic silver and applied it and reassembled
everything. processor now running around 40c, still underclocked.
Just recently I started getting more wierd problems, my firefox
favorites get erased or scrambled on every restart, even if I wasn't
using it at all. Zone alarm keeps giving me new requests for simple
programs like AIM and AVG that have always been granted access before.
Every single time I restart now, it gives me that blue screen telling
me my disks need to be checked for consistency.
A friend of mine suggested it might be the power supply, thats fine by
me I wanted one of those modular ones anyway. I figure I can probly
scam my parents for one by telling them my computer died. Maybe I can
get a new case too, we'll see.
"
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