- Jan 25, 2005
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For a couple of weeks now, my computer has been freezing up either immediately after logging into Windows, minutes thereafter or even hours afterward. I checked the event logs and nothing. I ran Adaware, and Spybot and nothing. I ran chkdsk /r nothing. I even ran memtest for a couple of hours and nothing. I checked the Vrails in the BIOS and nothing. The CPU isn't under much load when it happens either. It could be idle and boom, it locks up. I have to press the reset button to get it back up.
The problem can be anything. The only related problem is that the CMOS settings randomly reset when I rebooted or powered off and on. Sometimes it would be fine and sometimes settings would be reset.
Maybe I need to just reformat? I was planning on blowing the partition to hell once I purchased another hard drive. Right now I'm booting off of Nvidia RAID and it hasn't been the most reliable thing ever and having to jimmy-rig a floppy drive every time I want to reformat has been a pain in the ass.
So I'm going to buy a 80 gig HDD, boot from that and then use the RAID 1 for secondary storage (after converting it to RAID 1). I'm also going to buy 2 GB of memory.
I wasn't able to test the memory sticks because I run a dual channel set up and my mobo doesn't like single sticks of RAM.
The problem can be anything. The only related problem is that the CMOS settings randomly reset when I rebooted or powered off and on. Sometimes it would be fine and sometimes settings would be reset.
Maybe I need to just reformat? I was planning on blowing the partition to hell once I purchased another hard drive. Right now I'm booting off of Nvidia RAID and it hasn't been the most reliable thing ever and having to jimmy-rig a floppy drive every time I want to reformat has been a pain in the ass.
So I'm going to buy a 80 gig HDD, boot from that and then use the RAID 1 for secondary storage (after converting it to RAID 1). I'm also going to buy 2 GB of memory.
I wasn't able to test the memory sticks because I run a dual channel set up and my mobo doesn't like single sticks of RAM.