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Hardware conflict?

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mindstormsguy

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Okay, I have recently "upgraded" my system and the new specs are as follows:

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
Asus A7V8X-X motherboard (VIA KT400)
512 MB PC3200 Corsair Value Select Memory
MSI GeForce 4 MX 440 SE
LG 52x24x52x Burner
60 GB 7200 RPM Wester Digital HD
300 Watt PS

My problem is, my computer likes to spontainiously reboot, freeze, or just show be a black screen (and also freeze). It seems to happen whenever the computer is doing something, not when it is idleing. Also, emule crashes alot.

When I first started useing the new mobo, ram, and cpu I had the problem of a restarting computer (it restarted so often you couldn't get anything accomplished). I upgraded my bios, which was supposed to fix some stability issues with 4x agp cards, and the problem changed to the one i'm currently having. Which is almost the same problem, just not as often.

What do you think is the problem now? Video card, RAM, power supply, or somehting else? Any help would be really great:D
 
Have you tryed the newest drivers/one step from newest/3rd step from newest?

Disabled any devices that share IRQs?

Ran memtest?

Reinstalled windows?


Obviously the easy to tell if a particular driver is causing a problem is disable it if possible, or uninstall the driver.

You may also wanna look your PSU. Not sure if asus still supports PC Probe or not, but i think it monitors voltages.
 
you know, i really think it probibly isn't my ps, the voltages seem fine to me. i wanted to see what other people thought though. and yes, i've reinstalled windows. and no shared IRQs (well usb controllers, but that doesn't really count does it?)

so i'm off to run memtest. i hope its not the ram. if it isn't i'll try fiddling with the drivers.

thanks for the reply
 
okay, wasn't the ram and and i've tried some old video drivers and nothing seems to work. :confused:

ah well, unless anybody has any other ideas i think i'll be looking at graphics cards
 
If all else fails and you don't/can't get new hardware, then set the AGP back to 2X and turn off fast writes in the bios. I know this isn't a solution, but a temporary fix until you can investigate this problem further.
 
try turning off automatic restarts (on system failure) & disable memory dumps (64kb is default)

I use to have a similar problem and that solved it.
 
Originally posted by 4keatimj
Have you gpot the latest NVIDIA Detonator drivers?
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Detonator drivers? what are those? i do have the latest video drivers installed but what the.... :confused:


Originally posted by 133
try turning off automatic restarts (on system failure) & disable memory dumps (64kb is default)

I use to have a similar problem and that solved it.
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ur talking about in thebios right? because i dont see anything like that in mine. which is weird, because i swear i've seen those b4 (altough, it could have been many my old mobo, or maybe a friends)


thanks for all the replys:cool:
 
Detonators = nVidia's display drivers.

What brand power supply do you have?
What kind of heatsink do you have?
...are you SURE you installed it properly?
 
its a no-name power supply.....so, yeah. and the heatsink is a thermaltake volcano 11. the tempratures i get would say that i did install it properly, when the cpu is idleing its around 42 (and thats with the heatsink fan at a low rpm).
 
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