Gagaman Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 AMD athlonXP 2800 pc freezes several times a day. Sometimes when working on it (just some office and internet applications), sometimes even when nobody is working at it. Nothing can be done than shutting of the power and restarting it. (no mouse working, no keyboard, .... ).I cleaned it up with adaware, and spybot. Did a virus scan with Avast, and some online virusscanners. No viruses found.Then I thought that maybe the memory was broken, so I run memtest86. The pc frozes after 5 miunutes when doing the memtest. No errors detected.(Side question: when running memtest(starting from a floppy), windows isn't loaded yet, I suppose?).I need some advice on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Have you checked temperatures of CPU, motherboard etc?Are all the required fans operating OK?Ensure all plugs, cards (PCI, graphics and memory blocks), power cables etc. are fully pushed home. Have you checked for Trojans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaman Posted September 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 going to check for trojans a² will do I suppose???overheating might be an issue... I will let it run with the case open for some time and see what happens. Thanks for the suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 a² would be what I would use.Regarding running with the case open - not recommended. As the airflow would be incorrect for the case with its side removed, there is a possibility of the components running hotter than they would with the sides in place and the airflow correct.Best to keep a running check on temperatures with the case intact if you can then see if there are any untoward increases at any time.What are your running temperatures now? This may give an idea if they are working near the safe limits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaman Posted September 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Oups, just returned from work and read your comment. I already opened the case now... Will install speedfan tomorrow to monitor the temps. Let you know then what the temps are.Didn't run a² yet, will be something for tomorrow to...Thanks for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Will install speedfan tomorrow to monitor the temps. Let you know then what the temps are.I'm surprised that there isn't a monitor installed with the motherboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaman Posted September 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 maybe there is??? Where do i look for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel=UK= Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 well same sort of thing used to happen to me when i played on Westwood (command and conquer lobby) , and it was a problem with my network card. It started doing it when i never had it installed , just certain things caused it to freeze shareaza made my pc freeze aswell along with other things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 maybe there is??? Where do i look for it?Most likely be a program called - - - - Doctor or - - - Probe or something on those lines. Have a look at the motherboard manual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaman Posted September 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 Still no luck with this one. I installed speedfan (did'nt find the mobo monitor).Speedfan gives these temps with closed case:cputemp: 42°Ccase temp: 26°CI runned spybot, adaware and a². Nothing bad detected (some cookies by adaware).Gonna run a HJT and post this in the HJT section. Will add a link to it later.Could it be bad memory???Edit: link to HJT log: http://www.windowsforum.org/forum/index.ph...=0entry113242 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 temperatures look okhave you got system restore enabled? How much memory have you installed?Is your graphics card drivers up to date? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaman Posted September 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 system restore is enabledsystem got 245MB ramall drivers are uptodate :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 I noticed from your log that you had ATI installedHave you got a graphics card then?How come you only have 245mb ram? Is it shared graphics245mb ram sounds to small to be honest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaman Posted September 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 Pc is at work... after the weekend I'll look it up.Thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 The memory does seem a bit on the mean side for XP. It will work, yes, but not to its best nd it could explain the freeze ups.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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