System freeze help please

[astondg]

Hello,
I have this system,
- AMD Athlon 64 3800+
- ASUS A8V Deluxe (BIOS: 1005.027, VIA Drivers: 4.51)
- Corsair 1GB XMS 3200XL
- XFX 6800 Ultra (Drivers: 65.73)
- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
- Western Digital 200GB Sata HDD
- Windows XP Service Pack 2
- If any other specs are required just let me know

And I am having a problem with it freezing when I leave it running overnight. It runs fine during the day when I am using it, idle temperatures of about 33C CPU and 30C motherboard and the most I have seen was running Prime95 51C CPU and 33C motherboard, and 48C CPU while running Doom 3. These are measured with ASUS PC Probe.

When I leave it running overnight downloading with ABC bittorrent or GetRight, or last night when I left it burning a Dual Layer DVD, it will usually freeze at some point, generally early the next morning but last night it froze about 22mins into the 40min DVD write (around 12pm).

I might leave ASUS PC Probe in record mode tonight to see if it is a temperature related problem but from the temperatures I have already stated I don't think it is. I don't understand why it happens when the computer is doing very little. I have not had any lockups while playing games or running other programs, or even when I leave the computer running during the day?

Does anyone know what could be causing this? Or maybe some things I could check or try?

Thanks,
Aston

 

[wallijonn]

Sounds like APM and / or ACPI. Is it set to 'Suspend to Ram', S1, S3, etc?

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prdh_dmt_odlv.asp

http://www.nlynx.com/html/tb-acpilockup.htm

http://www.pchardware.ro/Articles/article.php?id=127

etc.

So, what are your power settings set to in the control panel? (Power Options).

If you are not using WXP, what are the settings in the BIOS?

 

[Ignad]

Software:

Anything in the OS event logs?

You running updated antivirus?

Running software firewall? (if so, see anything in the log?)

Run spybot & adaware?

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Hardware:

You are running a hardware firewall (router) of some sort, right?
(assuming broadband connection)

Power supply appropriately sized?

Power supply slightly wounded from power hit(s)?

Other hardware wounded from power hit(s)?


Power problems requiring line conditioning?

 

[astondg]

wallijonn:

I don't understand about APM and ACPI but here are the settings I am using:

BIOS Settings:
Suspend Mode: [S1 (POS) & S3 (STR)]
Repost Video on S3 Resume: [No]
ACPI 2.0 Support: [No]
ACPI APIC Support: [Enabled]
Power Management/APM: [Enabled]
Plug And Play O/S: [No]

Settings in Control Panel -> Power Options:
- Power Schemes: Minimal Power Management
- Turn Off Monitor: Never
- Turn Off Hard Disks: Never
- System Standby: Never

Ignad:

- The system event log shows a few Tcpip Warnings "TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts." that I think are related to Bittorrents? There is one at 11:42pm last night that would be the exact time the computer froze but there is also one at 10:30pm when the computer did not freeze?
- I am using an up to date Norton Antivirus with Auto-Protection turned on
- I have a firewall in my router that I don't think has logs and I use Windows firewall that didn't have logging turned on and I am not sure it logs much anyway?
- Adaware found a few cookies but that is all; I have removed them.
- Spybot found "DSO Exploit" that didn't look too bad, something to do with IE, but I have removed it now.

Thanks for the help, any more info or help would be appreciated.

Aston

 

[astondg]

Are there any other thoughts? Can anyone tell me how I should set the BIOS settings for APM and ACPI?

It was all fun when it was just a freeze that stopped my downloads but now it wrecked a Dual Layer DVD (they are a bit expensive here in Australia), it is not so funny anymore. Now I would really like to fix this problem.

Thanks,
Aston