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| 711768 | 2008-10-12 08:12:00 | Hello all I created a thread a little while ago regarding my PC freezing seemingly randomly. I followed the advice given and put a 425W PSU in my machine, which seemed to fix the problem. However, today while running games (project IGI and UT99 GOTY) it froze. Not exactly demanding games I know. Any suggestions possibly why this happening? The PC completely freezes, the image stays on the screen, but I can't even open the DVD drive. | sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 711769 | 2008-10-12 19:18:00 | Whats the specs of the PC? What have you done to it lately other than swap the PSU? What does Event Viewer show? Have you done a malware scan? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 711770 | 2008-10-12 23:13:00 | Motherboard - FIC AM37 CPU - AMD Duron 110Mhz Morgan RAM - 768Mb Video Card - nVidia Geforce MX440 PSU - Raidmax 425W (was Powerman 250W) I thought it could be the CPU overheating, as I think it has a protection system, but that shouldn't disable the DVD drive. It freezes at particular points in video files as well, so in that situation it is not a random occurence. |
sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 711771 | 2008-10-13 06:07:00 | Have you looked in the task manager to see what's happening? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 711772 | 2008-10-13 08:40:00 | A machine of that age could have multiple possible issues -Defective (leaking/bursting) capacitors on motherboard -Dust-clogged or loose heatsink on CPU -Defective fan/s on CPU and/or video card -Defective ram on m'board/video card -Corrosion in pci/agp/ram slots etc (try removing/replacing cards to rectify this) I'd start with the video card seeing as it dies when playing games or video files, then motherboard capacitors (www.siliconchip.com.au) (this was possibly the cause of your power supply failure too :crying ). Would also check event viewer too, and do a malware check, as Pctek advised earlier. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 711773 | 2008-10-13 19:21:00 | Thanks for that. I've done checks with Microsoft Malware checker - nothing found, and AVG Free 8.0 - just some cookies. I have another motherboard which supports socket A processors - K7S5A. Could try onboard VGA first. I know it's not CPU heatsinks/fans. Checked them. Could be VGA cooler, as it's not the original any more - I replaced it with an old CPU cooler as the stock fan was vibrating. | sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 711774 | 2008-10-14 19:14:00 | I took the video card out and used the onboard VGA but it still froze while watching videos. DVDs are not a problem to watch with either VGA though. I have run MemTest and no problems were found. Next thing to try I suppose is the motherboard. | sammo450 (13626) | ||
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