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Computer Lockup

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Kazz

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My computer has been locking up like crazy these last few days.
It happens mostly in games or anything graphically intensive, like movies. But it has been known to spontaneously stall when just viewing websites.

At first, i thought it was my 9600xt whose fan recently died, and i currently have a casefan maskting taped to it, in a sort of half assed attempt at a quick fix. But I had recently replaced it with a ti4200 for testing purposes, and my computer continues to lock up.

What basically happens is that the game either freezes, blacks out, and with it comes an annoying screeching noise/tone. Sometimes when it happens I get a monitor power down, like the computer has reset itself, but the comp just idles.

I've done check disk on my HDDs, and there dont appear to be any bad sectors.

I thought it might be the RAM, but i used to have a similar problem and recently bought a new 512 stick of Kingman (below) so i didnt think/dont think it is the RAM (again?).

Anyone have any ideas how i can specifically locate the cause of the problem? Or know what might cause lockups of this kind?
 
what you need to do is fault isolation. first, try unplugging all of your ram and see if your computer still works. :rolleyes:

try memtest, and see if that second stick is causing errors.

check for new video/sound drivers. also, pull out all that useless but cool hardware (tv tuner, offboard sound card, mouse, etc) and see if it still works.

virus scan?
 
Ok, well i have run Memtest overnight and did near 30,000% of tests on it, and found nothing.

As for the video card, I have recently added a ThermalTake Giant 3 onto it, so the cooling issue with it is resolved. But the crashing is still happening. The drivers have all been updated for everything.

Could it be possible that the RAM could still be buggy, even though Memtest didnt detect anything?
It only seems to crash when the computer has some load on it.. i.e. a game or installing something or watching a movie with a few processes in the background. And i ran Memtest in Idle mode.
 
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