Random freeze/reboot

[djstepanek]

A while back I made a thread about CPU temps

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1592084&enterthread=y&arctab=y

Went through and changed my heatsink installation and now I am 100% sure it is 100% correctly installed, and since then after some video problems I reverted back to the stock gpu cooler from ATI.

As it is though I am still getting random lock ups. My sound will stop and go into a high pitched noise then cuts out, and then loops whatever was playing ie, a few seconds of a song will loop until I hit the restart button.

I cannot do alt/ctrl/del, I get no responce from the system at all.

This freezing problem happened to me about 4x in a row in under an hour while playing BF2 just now, tried disconnecting my secondary HDD and my dvd burner but that didn't matter (and really shouldn't they weren't active at the time). Tried reducing the graphics settings to lower than normal, yet I still get the error.
Also happened when I was simply watching a movie while at the same time using bittorrent to download a file...

I am wondering if it could be a harddrive problem? I save everything to my raptor before moving it to my storage drive if I decide to keep it, and all my program files are on my raptor. Would it be benificial to try to install xp on a secondard drive partition, disconnect my raptor and see if I still have problems? or is that just doing alot for nothing?

Or could I simply be running an insufficent powersupply? I thought 430W would be plenty for what I am running though, or is my CPU overheating as noted in the other thread I posted? The temps have not changed since then.

 

[TechnicalNewbie]

Howdy! Did you ever get this problem fixed? I'm having the same darned one! I, too, am hoping it's just the power supply that's gumming up the works. I started a topic just recently, so maybe if anyone offers any help for mine then there will be a chance it can help you as well. Here's hoping. Good luck!

 

[djstepanek]

Nope never fixed it, still happens sometimes. Will read your topic

 

[saturnpappaa]

Check your power supply inside for blown capacitors, run a memory test from memtest 86, and look into seeing how hot your video card is getting. Another trouble shooting procedure would be to try playing with out the sound card installed.

 

[djstepanek]

I have already ran memtest 86 before, and that was all fine.

Back home for the holidays and have not seen the problem occur yet, though I have only been down for a few days. It might have been a heat issue because of the location it was in at my appartment.

Will look into those other things though, thanks.

 

[Rhezuss]

I have this exact same problem with my computer. I replaced my PSU and it worked for 1 day and then it happened again.

I read on some other forum that the latest Marvelle Yukon Ethernet drivers (I think it's for the integrated lan on the ASUS motherboards) was causing random freezes and reboots. I installed an older version of the drivers yesterday and for now it's running ok. I'll see later if that solved the problem.

The thing i've done too is separate my hardware to let the heat dissipate more efficiently. I found out my soundcard was 2 PCI slot down the AGP slot so I plugged it in the farest PCI slot from the AGP. I also installed the latest VIA Hyperion drivers to get the latest AGP and chipset drivers.

So i'll come back to you if the LAN drivers was really the problem with this error. I don't think it's hardware related since our comps are booting.