PC keeps crashing/freezing Please Help***

[ozmastero]

as i said in my earlier post about a faulty psu causing my pc to freeze, i see you are using a gigabyte board which has the following features in the bios

System voltage detection
CPU/System temperature detection
CPU/System fan speed detection
CPU overheating warning
CPU/System fan fail warning
CPU fan speed control

the board in mine is a gigabyte board using similar features in mine i noted that there was a failure with the system voltage this was the cause of mine to freeze.

how would I find mine though? what would I check??

sorry if it sounds stupid,

Oz

[ozmastero]

as i said in my earlier post about a faulty psu causing my pc to freeze, i see you are using a gigabyte board which has the following features in the bios

System voltage detection
CPU/System temperature detection
CPU/System fan speed detection
CPU overheating warning
CPU/System fan fail warning
CPU fan speed control

the board in mine is a gigabyte board using similar features in mine i noted that there was a failure with the system voltage this was the cause of mine to freeze.

in the device manager nothing has an exclamation apart from a unknown USD port

could this be it?

[ozmastero]

two new points I would like to make,

I have realized that if I leave it for around 10 minutes after turning on the computer it seems to work for much longer before freezing,

DOES THIS GIVE US ANY CLUE?

the second, having a look through the BIOS I came across a setting called: HPETMODE: which is set in 32bit

I have windows 7 pro 64 bit,

would this be why?

[dasteph]

how would I find mine though? what would I check??

sorry if it sounds stupid,

Oz

if you enter the bios and look for the system voltage detection and watch the various voltages as the pc runs you should find that the bios will have a pass or fail against them.

[cunny]

I still think its a cooling isssue. On the motherboard cd there will be apps for monitoring voltage, temps ect. I suggest installing them and seeing whats going on. If you can find the cd they will be avail from boards homepage

[XRay333]

Cooling Problem

I see this alot and it's always something OVERHEATING.

Check ALL your fans and dust. Dust will kill a computer just as fast as a dead fan. Video card fans are the first place to look.

[Cod3waX]

best thing to do now is to get yaself another HDD and install windows on it and run it and see if it freezes on ya

this will eliminate software issue

[ozmastero]

nope still nothing

weird, because if I leave it for around 15/20 mins without touching it, then it doesnt freezes, had it on all day today using software etc no problem....

totally confused

[mtechno]

You still need to diagnose whether or not the hard drive is faulty because all the symptoms you've stated point to that! Assuming you've cleared all temp files temp internet files, scan disc & defrag. Try some hdd check & repair pragrams found on hirens boot disc or similar. I have had several Hard drives pack up in less than one year

[cunny]

Have you tried post 10

[bladesman83]

Let's start with the simple, software errors first. We can move onto hardware if needed.

A few things to try:-

Boot up in safe mode, see if it still crashes after using it for a while.

If all is ok in safe mode, run msconfig and disable everything from startup., see if the crash continues.

Check event viewer straight after a crash, see if it lists anything.

Keep us posted.

[cunny]

A simple format and reinstal would do the above. However, i would doubt it to be software related. Everything pointed to overheating issue. If all heat sinks have been cleaned, maybe a repaste of CPU has been tried then i would suggest looking at hard drive and doing some tests on that.

Hence try changing the SATA cable, run hdd mfr tests see if all comes back clear.

[bladesman83]

A simple format and reinstal would do the above. However, i would doubt it to be software related. Everything pointed to overheating issue. If all heat sinks have been cleaned, maybe a repaste of CPU has been tried then i would suggest looking at hard drive and doing some tests on that.

Hence try changing the SATA cable, run hdd mfr tests see if all comes back clear.

I agree mate but the reason I advised what I did is, if you format and it is a driver/software error, the chances are it will just happen again upon installing the culprit.
Better to find out what is causing it if possible.

He can almost rule out software anyways if it still crashes in safe mode.

[mtv1]

cunny cpu overheating in my view air hose job make sure the heatsynk and fan are firmly attached to the cpu

[rab2233]

is your HDD dead?