Hard-locking

[viets7ylez]

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to setup an old computer of mine to run as a home server so in the process of setting everything up, it hard locked on me when I was working inside Windows XP.

I have swapped the ram out already and the PSU and it still hard locks in Windows after a few minutes.

I tried running it in safe mode and I was able to run Prime95 for 4-5 hours without hard lock. I am not sure what the problem is here... I have reinstalled the OS a few times and it still locks up unless I'm in safe mode.

Any ideas?

 

[tiraides]

Specs of the old system?

 

[xenotype]

Prime95 is a better stresser of the CPU than the ram. try memtest86 that will let you know for certain if it is the ram.

 

[viets7ylez]

Locked up when using memtest too. It actually locked up before I was able to run memtest so I had to restart in order to do it.