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| 736989 | 2009-01-10 10:04:00 | Newish systemVista HP. E6400, 4 Gb ram, 9600gt, 1Gb. Machine running just fine and I usually keep it running non-stop. Shut it down last night and started this morning but it froze after about 15 minutes. Tried rebooting but came up with an error saying over-clocking error (never been overclocked) so went to bios and reset to default settings. Another reboot failed, just stopped at first screen so shut down for a couple of hours. Tried re-starting and it loaded up but, again, froze after 15 minutes. Any ideas, please? |
Fishb8 (484) | ||
| 736990 | 2009-01-10 10:12:00 | Have you scanned it for malware / viruses recently? Does it do the same thing in safe mode?? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 736991 | 2009-01-10 10:15:00 | Do you mean hard freeze? As in not even hitting numlock toggles the numlock LED? Physically inspect the motherboard for signs of fatigue / excess current draw (my motherboards used to melt, literally, at the ATX power connector). Run memtest on your RAM too, to make sure it's not being a pain. Can't hurt to do a CMOS reset either :p |
Growly (6) | ||
| 736992 | 2009-01-10 10:17:00 | Overheating? Check Cpu temp in bios. Still under warranty? |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 736993 | 2009-01-10 16:42:00 | Freezes in safe mode. Can't run for long enough to do AV scan. Will physically check pc innards. did full scal with Malwarebytes the day before - no issues. It hard freezes - nothing, not even Cntrl-Alt-Delete to bring up task manager. |
Fishb8 (484) | ||
| 736994 | 2009-01-10 18:46:00 | Newish systemVista HP. E6400, 4 Gb ram, 9600gt, 1Gb. an error saying over-clocking Another reboot failed, . , froze after 15 minutes. What motherboard? I'd be suspicious of the hardware |
pctek (84) | ||
| 736995 | 2009-01-10 21:58:00 | If you think it could be software related in any way simply do a restore, it might confirm something at least. I'll leave the hardware advice to pctek.. | Ofthesea (14129) | ||
| 736996 | 2009-01-11 01:28:00 | Tried a start but no go - nothing. Motherboard an AsusPB5 20 months old. Opened up box and everything looked good. Tried moving memory to different slots but still no good. Swaped the 2 x 2 GB memory for older 2 x 1 GB. Booted and got to fialled over-clocking so set bios to default and altered the boot order to normal. PC started fine and is ok 1 hour later. Why would the memory (bought mid Nov) just pack in? |
Fishb8 (484) | ||
| 736997 | 2009-01-11 01:38:00 | Tried a start but no go - nothing. Motherboard an AsusPB5 20 months old. Opened up box and everything looked good. Tried moving memory to different slots but still no good. Swaped the 2 x 2 GB memory for older 2 x 1 GB. Booted and got to fialled over-clocking so set bios to default and altered the boot order to normal. PC started fine and is ok 1 hour later. Why would the memory (bought mid Nov) just pack in? Could be BIOS reset to incorrect voltage for the RAM |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 736998 | 2009-01-11 01:57:00 | Why would the memory (bought mid Nov) just pack in? Memory like any other PC component can fail at any time - some can be faulty from New - others may last many years - thats just the way it is with PC Components. BTW 20 Months is not that "newish" - most of the BIG manufactures say the life expectancy of a PC is 3 years - hence thats why normally the longest manufactures warranty on boards is 3 years. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
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