Frozen, mouse wont move! SB overheating?

revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
edited September 2008 in Hardware
Hi, this hasnt happed for a while. My pc had been on all day hosting gmod servers.

I got back from going out, and went to surf the net, checked a forum and went to reply, then suddenly i was given a message saying it could load the next page because of a network timeout. I refreshed once but it still didnt work. Then suddenly my mouse wouldnt move and the whole pc had frozen on, caps locks woulfnt respond.

i was forced to do a reset. At this point i felt the south bridge heatsink, it was so hot i mildly burn my finger.
Like i said my pc hasnt frozen in a while. It seems to only do it when im using bandwidth.

My case has pretty good airflow. and all my other components are cool
all in 30s-40 max

Im am also 100% sure my gfx card isnt fried.
the south bridge is the on under the graphics card right?

Is this it overheating or somthing else?

Also, another problem is that it seems to (sometimes) freeze on startup (with the blue loading bar), somtimes it freezes completly and others it just loads forever so i have to reset and choose boot from last know config that worked.
Why is this?

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    Test your memory with Memtest86.
  • revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
    edited September 2008
    Ok, for how long?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    Over night, or until you get just one error.
  • revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
    edited September 2008
    Ok, ill start before i goto bed and check in the morning. Ill let you know the results tommorow. Thanks.
  • revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
    edited September 2008
    Right then, after leaving memtest86 on all night, i have this.

    8 pass
    0 errors
    wall time 10:10:19

    Looks like my ram is fine.
  • revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
    edited September 2008
    Ohh i also descovered my ram is not 800MHZ

    its 435mhz
    5-5-5-18 ddr2
    ddr871
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    Actually, your RAM is 871MHz, but it passed the testing so it's inconsequential. Do you know how to test your hard drive?
  • revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
    edited September 2008
    Right, i tried that, but it wont get past confirming device. i press agree on the agreement. it then looks for some ide thing and comes up with

    A:\DFT> unhandled exeption 000D at 00B7 224E errcode 7520
    whats happening?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    Sounds like your motherboard just isn't compatible with DFT. Pick up a copy of Seagate SeaTools and burn it to a CD, try booting from that. Run its complete sector test. It will do the same thing as DFT.
  • revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
    edited September 2008
    I downloaded the seatools for windows. Can i just run the long drive self test (DST)?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    yep
  • revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
    edited September 2008
    Ok, thanks, test is running. I will let you know the results. :)
  • revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
    edited September 2008
    Right then, test finished.

    results: LONG DST - Pass.
    Guess its not the harddrive.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    I think your copy of Windows just may be borked. If all your devices are running cool, it's probably not your SB.
  • revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
    edited September 2008
    Well, i have tried with xp, xp 64 bit, vista ultimate and 3 xp pro installs, happens on ALL of them. Somthing is deffinatly wrong hardware wise. It mainly happens when im downloading or on the internet.

    I loose connection, then the pc freezes. Could it be somthing to do with my wireless adapter? causing freezes? Or somthing to do with drivers for somr networking or internet controller... i dont know :(
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    That's very possible. Try a new network card if you can?
  • revorocksrevorocks England, East Sussex, Hove Member
    edited September 2008
    Alright, i will look into trying a wireless pci card. I will let you know when i get one and the results.

    Thanks very much for your time Thrax, I appreciate it :)
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