Strange Freezing

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desrin

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I am having some issues with the rig in my sig.

It is freezing up when watching any video using media player 10 and now it is freezing up when im doing simple things like working in Dreamweaver or using MSN.

I can play Oblivion or WOW for hours on end and it won't freeze but now its starting to freeze in the most un-intensive situations.

Nothing is overclocked, I even downclocked the video card, which would make no sense since in 3d apps the system runs like a champ.

I have a 480w PSU and have my DVD Burner on my Primary Slave IDE while my harddrive is on my first Sata I port.

Any help would be appreciated, I am at a loss to whats going on here, I check all the system logs and there are no errors.


Thanks
Dez
 
did you try running prime95 to see if everything is stable? Even if you didnt OC if your stuff is starting to break down p95 will show errors.

At the very least we can find out if its a hardware or software problem
 
If there's nothing in the system/app log then I would assume it's a hardware problem. Prime for a while like discochan said and you may also want to test the memory for stability.

Have you recently updated your BIOS and chipset drivers?
 
Did you already go through stuff like virus/spyware/check task manager for processes taking up cpu?

 
Shmuckety said:
Did you already go through stuff like virus/spyware/check task manager for processes taking up cpu?

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Ya I keep everything really clean, only thing going in the background is AVG Antivirus and ATI Tools.

Im going to run some prime 95, I did run it when I first got the comp but not for the long test, just the short one.
 
Ok so if i run Prime95 and I get errors where do i go from there??
 
i ran the toture test in prime95 overnight and it passed everything.

what else do i run now?? Memtest?
 
k i ran memtest86 and no errors, what would be the next thing to do??
 
Whilst you run those freezing programs have you opened the task manager to see what's eating what? Like... if the processor is being pegged by something or the RAM is eaten up.
 
WhyYouLoveMe said:
Whilst you run those freezing programs have you opened the task manager to see what's eating what? Like... if the processor is being pegged by something or the RAM is eaten up.
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I've kept taskmanager on for awhile now and there is no spike or anything at the freeze.

Is the best thing to do just take everything apart and start over??? I have never had a problem like this before where it just freezes for no reason at all.
 
desrin said:
I've kept taskmanager on for awhile now and there is no spike or anything at the freeze.

Is the best thing to do just take everything apart and start over??? I have never had a problem like this before where it just freezes for no reason at all.
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Instead of taking all the hardware apart maybe you could start with a format of your HDD and reinstall Windows. Windows has a funny way of... well you know Windows. ;)
 
Yeah Im going to have to try it, i have been running Speedfan to monitor my temps all day and case is 33c, cpu is 36-38 all day long...

It froze once when opening msn and once when I came back home and it came out of standby mode... this is pissing me off.
 
K update

I reformatted, before the reformat it would take 12 seconds of windows xp loading time (when the blue bar is going across the screen)

its 5 - 7 seconds now instead.. I don't know what's going on really, I did have a 6600gt in the system before and i used Driver cleaner and then installed an x800xl without a reformat.. maybe thats it?

I am also using the ATI Drivers with rivatuner to make it the normal 432/550 that is stock on iTurbo His x800xl's.. before i had the omega drivers with ati tray tool.

Anyways so far so good no freezing, installing oblivion now :p
 
2 days no freezing, i guess its just windows way of saying 'Reformat meeee'
 
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