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Hi
I have been working on fixing this problem for 2 months now, and I think it might be a partially broken motherboard, but I hope not.
My PC is usually on 24/7, and when I turn it off, I use the hibernate option.
Specs:
OS: WinXP home SP3 32bit
Motherboard: MSI K9VGM-V
CPU: 2,20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
RAM: 3GB kingston valueram
HDD: Primary ST380021A Secondary: ST3320620A
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
PSU: 400W
Problem:
When I leave my PC on, it will freeze up. I have gotten a few BSOD's (1A, and 8E with win32k.sys). When my PC is not freezing, my music player and mouse will lag. File transfers to usb-devices is extremely slow, or completely stops. Once, when I was watching a movie, everything froze up including the PC clock, except for the seekbar and the timer on my videoplayer.
Steps I took to try to fix this:
The first thing I noticed was that both the BSOD's (0x1A and 0x8E) are memory-related, so I did a complete memory test with memtest86+ and windiag. Both tests showed that my memory is fine. Then I thought my PSU might be bad, so I found another PSU to supply my hard drives and CD-rom drives, which didn't resolve the issue. I did not have another PSU that supported my motherboard, that's why I still used the other for the motherboard. Next, I suspected that my hard drives were bad, as they are pretty old (3 years and 5 years I think), so I ran chkdsk and spinrite, which didn't solve my problem. Then I found another hard drive off the shelf, and did a clean install, which also froze eventually. That convinced me it was a hardware problem, and so I ruled out any driver issues. I tried my on-board graphics card and disconnected my external one. When I share system memory from BIOS, the PC will get green spots on the screen and crash. This is easely recreated by playing any video while using the on-board graphics card. When I disable sharing of ram, the problem is gone, but the other freezing issue still persists, so I reconnected my external graphics card. I also tried flashing my bios to the newest version, which didn't help either.
I have tried to recreate the problem by heavily abusing my CPU with 2 Super Pi's running (one for each core) but that did not make my PC crash. I do notice that µtorrent makes my video player lag alot.
EDIT: my temps are pretty low (35-36C on system). I also cleaned my case for dust as a possible solution.
Thanks for reading so far.
I would strongly appreciate any tips or suggestions that any of you might give me, as I am running out of possible solutions, short of replacing my motherboard.
I have been working on fixing this problem for 2 months now, and I think it might be a partially broken motherboard, but I hope not.
My PC is usually on 24/7, and when I turn it off, I use the hibernate option.
Specs:
OS: WinXP home SP3 32bit
Motherboard: MSI K9VGM-V
CPU: 2,20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
RAM: 3GB kingston valueram
HDD: Primary ST380021A Secondary: ST3320620A
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
PSU: 400W
Problem:
When I leave my PC on, it will freeze up. I have gotten a few BSOD's (1A, and 8E with win32k.sys). When my PC is not freezing, my music player and mouse will lag. File transfers to usb-devices is extremely slow, or completely stops. Once, when I was watching a movie, everything froze up including the PC clock, except for the seekbar and the timer on my videoplayer.
Steps I took to try to fix this:
The first thing I noticed was that both the BSOD's (0x1A and 0x8E) are memory-related, so I did a complete memory test with memtest86+ and windiag. Both tests showed that my memory is fine. Then I thought my PSU might be bad, so I found another PSU to supply my hard drives and CD-rom drives, which didn't resolve the issue. I did not have another PSU that supported my motherboard, that's why I still used the other for the motherboard. Next, I suspected that my hard drives were bad, as they are pretty old (3 years and 5 years I think), so I ran chkdsk and spinrite, which didn't solve my problem. Then I found another hard drive off the shelf, and did a clean install, which also froze eventually. That convinced me it was a hardware problem, and so I ruled out any driver issues. I tried my on-board graphics card and disconnected my external one. When I share system memory from BIOS, the PC will get green spots on the screen and crash. This is easely recreated by playing any video while using the on-board graphics card. When I disable sharing of ram, the problem is gone, but the other freezing issue still persists, so I reconnected my external graphics card. I also tried flashing my bios to the newest version, which didn't help either.
I have tried to recreate the problem by heavily abusing my CPU with 2 Super Pi's running (one for each core) but that did not make my PC crash. I do notice that µtorrent makes my video player lag alot.
EDIT: my temps are pretty low (35-36C on system). I also cleaned my case for dust as a possible solution.
Thanks for reading so far.
I would strongly appreciate any tips or suggestions that any of you might give me, as I am running out of possible solutions, short of replacing my motherboard.