Random System Freezes

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ZacharyS

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First: This is NOT my computer, it's a friends. So the stuff in my sig have nothing to do with this.

Alright, his PC is:

X2 3800+
2GB Corsair XMS
A8N SLI Premium
7950GT 512MB
Rosewill 550w PSU

What happens is that he'll be playing WoW, and when he tries to exit, the PC will completely freeze. Just completely. Nothing fixes it. He has to force turn it off. And sometime it will just freeze at POST. It doesn't beep or make any noise, it just freezes. Restart, and it goes through. It doesn't always freeze at POST, but when it does, it never does it twice in a row.

Now, I'm suspecting the PSU, but only for ONE reason. He's using my old system, and I kept my PSU and he bought that Rosewill. It seems like a solid power supply, but you never know. Nothing is OCed, and I ran it all just fine for over a year, then sold it to him when I got my new PC. Now he thinks I screwed him over, but it just started happening after he's had it or 3 months :rolleyes:

Anyway, I'd just like to get this fixed for him so he'll quit bugging me about it.
 
Have him run memtest on each stick individually for at least 4 hours... preferably overnight if he can and see if it cones back with any errors.... and check the voltages, it could be a bad PSU as you said, but flaky ram can cause non-postage as well....

Good luck.... and tell your friend he did buy a used machine...
 
digital_exhaust said:
Have him run memtest on each stick individually for at least 4 hours... preferably overnight if he can and see if it cones back with any errors.... and check the voltages, it could be a bad PSU as you said, but flaky ram can cause non-postage as well....

Good luck.... and tell your friend he did buy a used machine...
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Thanks, I'll try that stuff. He has absolutely no idea how to do anything (I had to download a patch for him once because he couldn't get it off the blizzard site...). Sucks having to work on a PC that isn't mine.

Shoulda charged him more for the tech support :D
 
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