I had everything set up, ABit KN9 SLI board, AMD x2 64 +3800, HP DVD-RW, WD 160gig SATA HD, Corsair 2gig 800mhz DDR2 ram, 350w Raidmax PS, and an XFX 7600GT. It ran perfectly, played DVD's, ran windows fine, then sunday hit. Now my USB keyboard and mouse will flicker on and off, and I get a soft lock anytime I try to boot a game. Any suggestions on things to check?
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Need help: New computer worked great till Sunday
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Have you tried using other USB ports? Is the USB ports you're using built into the motherboard, or is it the kind you put in a slot in the back of the case, and run a wire to the motherboard?
Run Memtest to check your memory. Run scandisk to check your hard drives.
Not sure what else. Kind of sounds like two separate issues to me. Have you installed the AMD driver for the X2 and the MS hotfix?
Run Memtest to check your memory. Run scandisk to check your hard drives.
Not sure what else. Kind of sounds like two separate issues to me. Have you installed the AMD driver for the X2 and the MS hotfix?
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I would suspect that it is the power supply. I would upgrade to at least a 500 w.
OK same problem.. sometimes. I pop in a game, somedays it will play for hours, sometimes it will lock after 20 minutes. I've double checked the drivers, upgraded where possible, put a new 500w enermax cpu, so that's not the issue. I've done the AMD and windows fixes. There is an update out for the bios, but I don't have a clean boot floppy so that I could install it to see if that would even fix the issue. Can someone point to a location to create a command prompt boot floppy?
Drakenn said:
First off, you shouldn't need to make a floppy to flash your bios; Abit has a windows BIOS flashing utility called Flashmenu you can find on their website.
Second, the posters are correct that that 350w supply just isn't enough in terms of both power and quality. I'd recommend going with either the XClio 450BL or a Fortron AX400PN or AX450PN. Have you made sure that you've connected both power cables to the motherboard? (20+4)
Is the system SP2004/Prime95 stable?
Yeah, that 350w PSU was definitely not enough. Have you made sure that you have a solid thermal paste layer between the CPU and HS? I would check the temps with SpeedFan or MBM5, and do as quadnad says: check the power connections to the MB and check stability with SP2004 or Prime95. I would also go get the Flashmenu and flash the bios if you have an opportunity, though sometimes it is a little flunky and has problems connecting to their server for the bios upgrade list. You aren't trying to overclock anything are you? Perhaps you are and the voltage needs to be upped on something? Anyway, there are some suggestions to check.
Umm I did change PSU's to a 500 watt. Ran prime 95 and memtest, both were error free and stable. I checked my temps during prime 95 and they seem to be around 43-45c at full load, I think it may still be an heat issue though. I don't know if that would explain how it freezes. The actual process it follows for freezing is the same everytime. First it slows down to a crawl, then the led on my usb mouse goes out then everything locks up on the screen. Any more ideas?
edit: I did update the bios last night, and have not checked to see if that fixed the problem, so assuming it didnt what else should I test/upgrade/fix?
edit: I did update the bios last night, and have not checked to see if that fixed the problem, so assuming it didnt what else should I test/upgrade/fix?
Drakenn said:
Run Prime95/SP2004 while running RTHDRIBL. Have the nVidia temp control panel open at the same time, or use the temperature monitoring graph in RivaTuner. This will dump as much heat as possible into the system. Let them run through the day (overnight is fine, but it may not be as stressful because temperatures drop so much), or until it crashes.