Crashes... but only sometimes?

[DaLurker28]

My Rig:

Pentium 3 750 @ 900 1.75volts
Asus P3B-F
256mb sd-ram
Radeon LE @ 190/190
SB Live Value
13gb Maxtor 7200 RPM and 4.8gb Quantum 5400 RPM
50x CD-Rom
Yamaha 4x4x16

Running Win XP

Now, the problem is sometimes, i can run my computer for days on end without it crashing, and then one day, it might crash for no reason under windows. I just dont undersatnd it! i Can run Prime 95 for days on end without an error. Any ideas how? I've tried this w/ 1.75 volts, 1.85 volts and 1.95 volts. I've run my ram speeds both at cl3 and cl2, and it would crash for no reason on both. I really dont get it! Any ideas?

 

[Mitzi]

What sort of crash do you get? A hard lock, a reboot, a BSOD (blue screen of death? Any errors written to the event log? What are you doing when the machine crashes?

I don't think its hardware fault - if its very intermittent it could be a flaky driver or something - if you haven't already done it try updating the drivers for all your hardware and see if that helps.

 

[MilkPowderR]

also, there maybe evil inside your computer! :frown:

 

[DaLurker28]

Well. it's a hard lock. Usually the sound repeats, or the sound keeps on going (TV Tuner). Only a colt boot works. When i restart, the computer starts back up to it's happy self. It only happens once a while. Like it didn't happen for a good month, and then yesterday, it just locked up. It is very weird.....

 

[alyosha]

That kind of lock with a sound continuous repeating, is probably conflicting of the sound driver with something else... Try putting sound card in to another PCI slot, or/and updating the driver, disabling Soundblaster 16 emulation. Run without a sound card enabled, does it fix a problem?

 

[ToXiCRaGE]

could it be simply the OS? just a wild quess.........windows aint perfect and we all know that.
If if freezez while playing games, you might wanna downcloack you vid card.... since u oc ur FSB u automatically oc everything in ur pc, which means that u automatically oc ur vid card, plus u oc it again while playing with its core and ram settings

 

[Kipper]

Try raising the voltage to your RAM a bit and see if that helps stability.