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System -
Antec TPII 430W
Gigabyte 8AIP1000G rev 4
1.6@2.2 - Alpha heatsink, artic silver compound
2x512 PC4000
2 sata drives
1 15k scsi drive
2 cd drives
6600
SB Audigy
I'm having an issue with my computer freezing at random times. Sometimes it will be during heavy load and somtimes it will be just when I'm browsing through Windows. The odd thing is that I can't get it to freeze on purpose. I've run Prime for 12+ hrs, same with Memtest. But randomly it will just freeze. The system will be fine for x amount of hours and freeze... then I get a few freezes in succession and it runs fine for another x amount of hours. The processor is cooled just fine, and even dropping it down to stock speeds does nothing. Voltage on the PS is within 5% of spec [tested w/ DMM]. Memory is fine, relaxing the timing and/or bumping voltage doesn't do a damn thing. SCSI drive [where the os drive is] tests out just fine. Tested for bad sectors and 0'd it out last windows re-install. Windows installation is fresh... re-installed it a few days ago. At the moment the case it open... and my drives are cooled fine [80mm in front of the drive cages]. Alpha heatsink is cooled via a 80mm fan and all dust between the pins has been cleaned out. Base was cleaned and dried, same thing w/ CPU... used Artic Silver spread thin. The optical drives and scsi drives are on one 4 pin molex line. The Video card is on it's own. The 2 sata drives have their own line.
Trying to figure out what's wrong has been an f'n nightmare. This is essentially th same system that I ran for 5 straight years. The computer was rebooted every month w/ normal usage. The only change is the motherboard, psu, and memory. The motherboard blew a cap a few months back so I bought another 478 board. Old PSU was just a regular 400w Antec... and I thought my pc2700 didn't like the new board so I bought some PC4000.
Considering the freezes are random the only thing I can think of is a motherboard issue or PS. Is there anyway to test out the PS besides the old BBS [bad by swap] method?
Antec TPII 430W
Gigabyte 8AIP1000G rev 4
1.6@2.2 - Alpha heatsink, artic silver compound
2x512 PC4000
2 sata drives
1 15k scsi drive
2 cd drives
6600
SB Audigy
I'm having an issue with my computer freezing at random times. Sometimes it will be during heavy load and somtimes it will be just when I'm browsing through Windows. The odd thing is that I can't get it to freeze on purpose. I've run Prime for 12+ hrs, same with Memtest. But randomly it will just freeze. The system will be fine for x amount of hours and freeze... then I get a few freezes in succession and it runs fine for another x amount of hours. The processor is cooled just fine, and even dropping it down to stock speeds does nothing. Voltage on the PS is within 5% of spec [tested w/ DMM]. Memory is fine, relaxing the timing and/or bumping voltage doesn't do a damn thing. SCSI drive [where the os drive is] tests out just fine. Tested for bad sectors and 0'd it out last windows re-install. Windows installation is fresh... re-installed it a few days ago. At the moment the case it open... and my drives are cooled fine [80mm in front of the drive cages]. Alpha heatsink is cooled via a 80mm fan and all dust between the pins has been cleaned out. Base was cleaned and dried, same thing w/ CPU... used Artic Silver spread thin. The optical drives and scsi drives are on one 4 pin molex line. The Video card is on it's own. The 2 sata drives have their own line.
Trying to figure out what's wrong has been an f'n nightmare. This is essentially th same system that I ran for 5 straight years. The computer was rebooted every month w/ normal usage. The only change is the motherboard, psu, and memory. The motherboard blew a cap a few months back so I bought another 478 board. Old PSU was just a regular 400w Antec... and I thought my pc2700 didn't like the new board so I bought some PC4000.
Considering the freezes are random the only thing I can think of is a motherboard issue or PS. Is there anyway to test out the PS besides the old BBS [bad by swap] method?