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Friends little problem...

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Ok my friend just bought a new parts couple weeks ago to build a new comp for himself he bought a Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Motherboard, Athlon XP 2800+ Barton, Enlight ATX 360W P4 Powersupply, Kingston 512 PC3200 Ram.

PSU: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-103-605&depa=0

Memory: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-141-424&depa=0

Now he put this all together it was running stable for about a week when all of a sudden it just keeps randomly rebooting when he either plays Counter-Strike(Through Steam) or uses Ventrilo. He says he gets errors like steam.exe and ventrilo.exe sometimes when he crashes. I'm thinking the ram but i could be mistaken. He had his harddrive for a long time he thinks that is his problem. I also think it could be the power supply but im not too sure. If you could think of what the problem could be that would be great. Thanks for your time.
 
If it was stable for a week, it's worth checking to be sure that no connectors or anything have come loose inside the system, especially the PSU connector to the motherboard itself.

Also, might wanna just take a peek in the BIOS and see that everything is set right, it can't hurt to set everything to the defaults or 'optimized' settings, to be safe.

The A7N8X has a lot of room for tweaking, but that also means plenty of ways to make your system unstable.

And as always, it won't hurt to reinstall the sound/video/motherboard drivers just to be on the safe side. Is the CPU running as cool as it should be?

Erik
 
Ok i got my friend to check the power connectors and he says they are fine. But i got him to boot into bios and his cpu temp is 53C and his mobo is 27C. I know before he had a problem with his memory i dont know if he had to set his timings or w/e i dont know how to do that in bios for him. He reinstalled his videocard drivers and stillt he same thing.

I got him to open his case to take off the sides and get a fan blowing in there to cool it down. I dont know what else to tell him what to do
 
Originally posted by Carnival Forces
RTFM.


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well, thats not exactly helpful....

maybe theres something wrong with the memory?

or it could be viruses, bugs, etc

run spybot, some sorta antivirus, and anything else u can think of that is recommended

you can download a lotta these softwares from download.com
 
Have you checked to make sure that the CPU is properly seated? And get rid of that thermal pad on the HSF if he's using it ... go with a silver based thermal compound (insert obligitory arctic silver 5 reference here)

53C at boot seems kinda high, and may be what's causing the spontaneous rebooting
 
53°C at boot up, thats kindof high. Run Mem86, make sure no virus/spyware is on computer.
 
Originally posted by darktiger
53°C at boot up, thats kindof high. Run Mem86, make sure no virus/spyware is on computer.
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53°C??????

maybe its time for a new heatsink or another cooling method
 
My PC used to randomly reboot while playing CS. It did this for weeks, until I got some compressed air, and blew away all the dust from the fans (I had just come back from a 2 week vacation away from the computer), and never had a problem again.

The reason mine crashed is because of a heat issue. I think that you are having some problems with the way you are cooling that thing.
 
Originally posted by lorcani
My PC used to randomly reboot while playing CS. It did this for weeks, until I got some compressed air, and blew away all the dust from the fans (I had just come back from a 2 week vacation away from the computer), and never had a problem again.

The reason mine crashed is because of a heat issue. I think that you are having some problems with the way you are cooling that thing.
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yea... either, for your friend, you clean out the dust in his computer OR you get a new heatsink or something OR you can do both

i bet it would help and you would lose several degrees in heat
 
my guess is overheating of some kinda. both proggies, use cpu and audio resouces.

does having the system on mute limit the audio computation? (might help to rule out the mobo if so)

cpu temp is high. pipe some cold air to it somehow and see if that helps stability. then we know its definately a cpu heating problem.
 
yea now that he's talking about a temp that high at idle, I would definitly put this problem on something overheating. And maybe at those times its already running very close to max temp, then once you hit smoke or something that just puts it over the limit.

But also check the video card, since he OCed it, maybe there is something happening there too?(shot in the dark)
 
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