Random Freezes/lock ups

Nakamori

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Hey guys, I've locked up four or five times in the last 24 hours or so of use, right after i installed a new video card (It's a radeon and I didnt change the drivers because my previous card was a radeon). Since then I have swapped it out and am using onboard video, but it just froze again. I've uninstalled every program Ive added in the last 24 hours. There does'nt appear to be any correlation between the crashes and cpu-usage. Any suggestions?

Other things: passed 5 hours of memtest, no oc, stable rails.

While adding the video card It brushed up against some of the capacitors. But if the capacitors were messed up wouldn't crashes occur more frequently?

Also my computer sometimes doesn't detect my cd rom drive when i boot up. its really random; sometimes it does, other times it doesnt. is this related?
 
Uninstalled Starcraft as it was one of the progs i installed in the last 24 hours... no crash since, heh.
 
Nakamori said:
Uninstalled Starcraft as it was one of the progs i installed in the last 24 hours... no crash since, heh.

That makes no sense? But hey, try putting the card back in and if it worked, more power to ya. :cool:
 
crap, it happened again. Any suggestions, anyone? I'm about to format...I'm praying that its a software issue so a simple format will do the trick
 
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