PC randomly freezing.... PLEASE help

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HardD99

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at this point im considering a dell, lol.... im just so frustrated. my pc is just randomly freezing. i leave my pc on 24/7 and when i head to bed its running fine, when i wake up and move the mouse nothing happens, try the keyboard, and nothing, even try hitting the power button for a soft shut down, still nothing, so i know the pc is completely froze up. other times i will be playing a game or maybe just surfing the net and the pc will just freeze. i would rather get a BSOD, atleast then i get an error... anyways, can any of u guys suggest anything? im desparate here. oh yeah and i just formatted my HD thinking maybe something was fubar'd but still having same issues.

PC is #1 in sig, i am running windoze xp pro.

oh yeah, i also have newest drivers for everything, and latest bios.
 
When you go to bed and then wake up in the morning to find it frozen, that sounds like the hard-drives are just shutting down. When that happens to my comp, it freezes as well, so I just set them to never shut down. Although, with the random freezing during games, that sounds like a different problem, possibly overheating or maybe insufficient power from psu. Do your temps seem ok?

nice system BTW ;)
 
this happens to me too lately... and i keep seeing more a more posts about it.

totally random freezing... i actually just rma'd my LG 4167B Burner and suddenly everything is going better... but who knows it could freeze up by the time im done this post.

me thinks theres something everyone having these problems has in common.
 
teclado said:
When you go to bed and then wake up in the morning to find it frozen, that sounds like the hard-drives are just shutting down. When that happens to my comp, it freezes as well, so I just set them to never shut down. Although, with the random freezing during games, that sounds like a different problem, possibly overheating or maybe insufficient power from psu. Do your temps seem ok?

nice system BTW ;)
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I kinda doubt it's insufficient power. I'm leaning towards overheating of some sort (or an unstable o/c if that is a possibility). It might also be the RAM has inproper timings or several various possible problems with the RAM.

Run memtest?
 
hmm... well i ran a memtest for about 10 hours with 0 errors. i dont think its overheating because im running at stock speeds and got a pretty huge case, i think cpu runs at 29C if i remember correctly (not at home). i was thinking it might be the HD's shutting off also, but i checked the power settings and HD's arent set to shut off, which i was actually disappointed with, lol. one thing i really havent checked is my power. i dont even know how to really. i really hope i can expect more outta PC Power and Cooling tho, but shit happens eh? also every once in a while when it freezes it will make like a broken record sound, if im listening to something, it will do that for about 3 seconds then completely freeze up.
 
HardD99 said:
one thing i really havent checked is my power. i dont even know how to really.
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Go into BIOS (although BIOS is not super accurate, it will let us know if there are major voltage problems) and, depending on your BIOS, there shuld be a portion that has info on power. The voltages should all be within a certain percent(5% I think) of the stated voltage. So, your 3.3 volt line should be 3.135 - 3.464V, 12 volt 11.4 - 12.6V, etc. If you want to be extra precise, you can use a multi-meter, but I don't think that's necessary here. I would think that your psu voltages would be fine because I have heard great things about your psu and I see it has 34A on your 12V line , so you should be getting sufficeint power. Have a look at those voltages anyway and maybe we can at least eliminate the psu as the problem.
 
ok i just got back from vacation and checked out the voltage, everything seems within good range.... last night i turned of the power save for the monitor so the screensaver would run all night so atleast i wouldnt come back to a black screen. but when i woke up, it said windows xp pro on the screensaver and it wasnt moving.... froze up again... :(
 
HardD99 said:
ok i just got back from vacation and checked out the voltage, everything seems within good range.... last night i turned of the power save for the monitor so the screensaver would run all night so atleast i wouldnt come back to a black screen. but when i woke up, it said windows xp pro on the screensaver and it wasnt moving.... froze up again... :(
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have you tried running on the bare minimum?

Just have your video card and harddrive going, take out all sound cards, nic cards, dvd drives, cd drives, even disconnect your internet.

Then turn it on and see if it freezes, if it does you'll at least know its not any of those things causing the problems.

If it does freeze I would try a reformat or try a different hd, if that doesnt work try and diff video card.. if that doesnt work try a different PSU even if the voltages seem within good range.
 
thx for the help guyz... ill try that out tonight and update you guys tomorrow
 
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