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| Thread ID: 100515 | 2009-06-11 01:14:00 | system crashes - help | han308 (7457) | Press F1 |
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| 781270 | 2009-06-11 01:14:00 | I built this system a few months back and heres the problem. The system has never been stable. Random system crashes. Just blank screen and reboots. Now, this machine is not meant to be high spec'd. I only want if to write DVDs, hold my music and photos and support my toys(mp3 player gps). Someone might say it’s a conflict with some anti-virus software or my MP3 player driver but I installed a clean version of windows 7 RC. And it still crashes randomly with just firefox installed. I have run a driver scanner and all are OK. I did get a lot of errors around the video driver but I've since installed the PCIe HIS HD4650 card and disabled the onboard video. Tried the latest video driver and it crashes worse than the drive than came with the box. I've even changed the RAM. What's left, the motherboard, the cpu and the PSU? I don’t want to throw $ away, but I need a strategy to trouble shoot and get some stability. I may install WinXp and see how stable that is...:groan: Any help Much appreciated! Cheers, Vic. Gigabyte GA-Ma78Gm-S2h rev 1.1 AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Cosair 4GB WD 640Gb ATI Radeon Hd 4650 Windows Vista Home premium SP1 PSU not sure. Generic 450W i think |
han308 (7457) | ||
| 781271 | 2009-06-11 01:25:00 | Did you install ALL of the drivers, inc the chipset drivers? I wouldnt use Win7 RC as the main / only OS. It probably didnt install all of the drivers, and the drivers you installed for it may not work / or may not be compatible with Win7 Might help if its BSOD'ing, if you can tell us WHAT the BSOD is saying, and if it shows the name of a file / driver, what the name of the driver/file is |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 781272 | 2009-06-11 01:37:00 | If you've tried other RAM I would be trying another PSU next. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 781273 | 2009-06-11 01:44:00 | yeah. an Error would be nice but no BSOD just reboots... Win 7 isnt my main OS. Vista 64 Home is, and its where it crashes. Unfortunately, i dont know Vista very well to find where it might have clues... |
han308 (7457) | ||
| 781274 | 2009-06-11 01:51:00 | have u overclocked the cpu, my brother overclocked his celeron the other day would just restart for no reason at all, he changed it back to the original speed and now it all fine | maco101 (14986) | ||
| 781275 | 2009-06-11 01:58:00 | Press the windows key (if the keyboard has one) + pause. Then go to advanced system settings (on the left). Click on continue. Then go to settings (the bottom one under startup and recovery). Untick automatically restart. When it crashes again, it may bring up a blue screen (with a stop error code). If it does, tell us what it says. And if it shows the name of a file/driver, tell us what the name of this is. Or click on the orb / type in eventvwr. To bring up event viewer. Click on windows logs, click on application / it maybe system. Look for any X's or !'s.. If it shows a crash (about the time it crashes). Double click on it. Highlight it, press Ctrl-C and then paste it here, by pressing Ctrl-V. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 781276 | 2009-06-11 02:07:00 | I suspect PSU...a generic one? : s | Blam (54) | ||
| 781277 | 2009-06-11 03:10:00 | Are you talking crash, freeze or BSOD. If the later, it is 99% is hardware drivers or memory. To resolve video driver, just use the standard VGA driver for now and see if it's still unstable.... 4Gb of RAM, is that 4 x 1 or 2 x 2 sticks?....even with a generic 450psu, you should be using anywhere near the max of that PSU. I reckon its your RAM, start remove sticks and increase as your system proves stablilty |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 781278 | 2009-06-11 04:46:00 | I might just slip a question in after reading SolMiester's post - can RAM instability be related to the PSU? And how do I check all my drivers for faults? | sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 781279 | 2009-06-11 04:59:00 | Forget PSU for now. Do what Solmesiter has instructed., |
pctek (84) | ||
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