Help Wanted: BSODs and CPU Overheating
cyperangel:
Erm, can't cay it has. Also, the Motherboard in its entirety has been replaced when I last had the comp in for repairs. That would be a month ago, give or take a few days.
So, based on the assumption that they arent such cheapskates that they reuse the old battery, there really should be no problem there.
It behaves nicely, although the sound in sims 2 have taken to stuttering after a long playsession. The odd thing about it all, is that it seems the freezes happens mostly when I am not in front of the computer. I leave it for 5 minutes to go raid the fridge, or I head to bed or to work, and when I come back, Wham! Its dead. Once in a blue moon, it will do it while I am actually sitting there, trying to do stuff, but most of the occurances has been when I werent around. Ive noted dates and times on the last 10 times it has happened. None of the times match each other, some happen at 1 pm, some at 3 pm, some at just after midnight, some at 5 am, and once at 7 pm... I've tried changing my mouse, keyboard and monitors, I've reformatted the dang thing like 20 times now, including deleting the partition on the harddrive (I only have 1 partition, covering the whole drive), and then re-partitioning the drive, formatting and reinstalling XP.
I have used 5 different drivers for my monitor, tested with antivirus and antispyware installed, and without, and with different programs installed. Same net result all the fracking time. Heck, out of desperation, I have arrrred 2 other versions of XP, and tried those on for change, and still the same result. I've scanned and rescanned my harddrive for faulty sections, stresstested the RAM, got it swapped for new RAM, got a new MB, CPU and GFX card, in case that was the culprits. No result.
(Glad I am not posting this on grammar day :P )
lauraglenn:
Quote from: KellyQ on 2007 December 28, 20:34:00
Well I don't have any expert advice because I'm far from it :D but I use AVG for free anti-virus software and it has caught things that Norton didn't even pick up on, so I'm pretty well sold on it.
Sorry for the aside... KellyQ, what is AVG and where can I get it? I have great fears that things are getting through my Norton. Thanks.
cyperangel:
Quote from: lauraglenn on 2007 December 31, 15:40:35
Quote from: KellyQ on 2007 December 28, 20:34:00
Well I don't have any expert advice because I'm far from it :D but I use AVG for free anti-virus software and it has caught things that Norton didn't even pick up on, so I'm pretty well sold on it.
Sorry for the aside... KellyQ, what is AVG and where can I get it? I have great fears that things are getting through my Norton. Thanks.
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/frt/0?prd=aff
angelyne:
Hmmmm. Has the PC always done that? Random freezes are the most difficult things to solve. Have you looked in the event logs for clues?.
Usually a problem like this is either hardware related or a driver issue. It's something pretty low level, otherwise OS would have simply trapped the error. Have you tried playing with the video driver. Try updating the driver, or if it's up to date, try to rollback to a different older version. Try finding a different driver. Usually there is a manufacturer specific driver and a more generic one made for the chipset. Like Nvidia for example. Try changing it. Make sure that you have the latest drivers installed for your MOB chipset. Reinstall them even if you do. Make sure you got the most current drivers for all the components in your machine.
Google your various components and see if anyone complains of random freezes.
Trying booting to safe mode and leave it running to see if it freezes again. (no point in using as there isn't much you can do in safe mode). If it doesn't freeze again, try launching msconfig and exclude all your startup items and run with that for a bit.
Try disabling various non essential components in the hardware manager and run with it for a while. Disable soundcard, network card, anything non essential.
Lastly, try unplugging non critical components like your DVD drive and running with only the basics. If you have an add-on soundcard and video card, and your motherboard has an on board equivalent, remove the cards and run only with the on board stuff as a test.
That's all I can think of for the moment. The idea behind all this is to isolate the component that is creating the problem.
Skadi:
Syberspunk - I recommend trying a new heatsink and fan, something from thermaltake, and don't forget the arctic silver 3 thermal grease. It will be cheap component to replace, and you can still use it even if you rebuild. Roxio wouldn't have been using your video gpu to do tvio processing - it would have been all cpu, which makes me think that overheating is an issue, at higher cpu cycles. From what you said, there seems to be an issue only when the load on the cpu is high.
Cyperangel - Do you have a screensaver or anything that runs when the computer is idle? It seems like something starts during idle time and that is what freezes it. It could be software related, or it could be that the computer is trying to use something with faulty drivers / bad component at that time.
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