Computer keeps freezing
My PC keeps randomly freezing on me. I've tried different hard drives, IDE and SATA. Different operating systems, both XP and Vista and it still does the same thing. I've reset the BIOS checked the settings made sure all the drivers are up to date. It will run indefinitely so long as I don't write anything to disk. For e.g If I create a new folder and then attempt to name it, the PC freezes.
It is especially problematic when I try to transfer large amounts of data onto the hard drive. Generally as soon as I try moving more than 1Gig of data I know it's going to freeze on me. I'm assuming it's a hardware problem but don't know where to check. I'm running F@H on it and thats running fine.
Please help!
It is especially problematic when I try to transfer large amounts of data onto the hard drive. Generally as soon as I try moving more than 1Gig of data I know it's going to freeze on me. I'm assuming it's a hardware problem but don't know where to check. I'm running F@H on it and thats running fine.
Please help!
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Have run memtest. The PC froze after a while, so I was not able to run it for long but there were no errors in the time it did work and I have tried the RAM in another PC and it works fine, so I can rule that out.
I'm going to try swapping the video card and am going to install a different wireless network device. Those are the only other options I haven't tried yet.
Is there anything else I can try that I may have overlooked?
The board is an Intel P4VM890
Temperature sounds like the suspect to me as well. Open the case and hook up an external ventilation fan. (But I'm sure you've already tried this? Wait, isn't it winter in South Africa now?)
One other thing if it's really dusty in there get some compressed air and blow the dust out. A decent layer of dust can bung everything up.
@Thrax I don't see how running ORTHOS is going to help. I'm already running Folding@home on it 24/7 and although I haven't used ORTHOS before I noticed one of the stress tests one can use is a large gromacs core. I'm kinda doing that already and the computer never freezes if I just leave it alone to fold.
I checked the temp with Everest and via the BIOS and it's registering 52C on both. That is a bit high but not too bad for stock with the CPU running at 100% constant.
@Kryst I've stripped this rig too many times for there to be a spec of dust on it and the fans are fine. However you may have nailed the problem to be the power supply. 12V rail only shows 11.25V dropping to 11.1 at times. I'm assuming this is not good?
@Leo you've come up with the best advice so far. Physical is done and income tax is submitted. Just dunno about the walk in the rain though. We going into spring by the way.
The side panel of the computer is off more than on and yes I have tried extra cooling for both HDD's and CPU
I then disabled the wireless network via device manager, which was the last item on my snag list and guess what? No more freezing :banghead:
I should have trusted my gut and tested that first. Logic however prevailed and I incorrectly assumed that couldn't be the cause.
I'm going to install a USB wireless dongle as opposed to the PCI card I have in there at the moment and see if it makes a difference.