Nightstorm
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Like many people this christmas, I went out and using my hard saved money I decided to upgrade the ol' comp (practically a complete new deal). Anyways I bought everything, put it together (first time in my life) and around 9 hours after returning home from the store, all the drivers and updates were installed and I was sitting down to the great game of HL2 at max everything.
A couple of days later, the computer froze. Static image on screen, no response to any input. No problem, simple restart and I'm good, however, Windows did not agree. It complained of a corrupt or missing files in the system32/drivers folder. So I wiped the drive clean and reinstalled windows. Everything was fine except in a few more days same exact problem. So I reinstall and begin talking with the vendor I bought the stuff from to try to come up with a source of the problem. Again the freeze. Again reinstall. Tonight the freeze occured again after running smoothly for about 2 weeks (longest run).
This freeze occurs randomly and during different activities, surfing the net, loading up bsplayer, closing down WoW, while idling. I've stressed the computer running loops of 3dMark 03 to try to force a crash, but it's never happened doing anything particularly intensive. Any help or suggestion as to what's causing this problem would be very appreciated.
My specs:
MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum s939
Athlon 64 3200+ (boxed)
OCZ Dual Channel Optimized PC3200 DDR400 512MBx2 CAS2.5 (OCZ4001024PDC-K)
Ati AIW 9800 Pro
Creative Audigy 2 Zs
Maxtor 200GB Sata drive 8mb cache (oem part)
Pioneer DVR AO6-U
Pioneer DVD Rom drive
All in an Antec Sonata case
Cooled by two 120 mm fans (trying running case open in case of cooling problem, did not help)
Powered by a 380 W Antec Power Supply that came with the case.
Again thanks for any thoughts or help.
A couple of days later, the computer froze. Static image on screen, no response to any input. No problem, simple restart and I'm good, however, Windows did not agree. It complained of a corrupt or missing files in the system32/drivers folder. So I wiped the drive clean and reinstalled windows. Everything was fine except in a few more days same exact problem. So I reinstall and begin talking with the vendor I bought the stuff from to try to come up with a source of the problem. Again the freeze. Again reinstall. Tonight the freeze occured again after running smoothly for about 2 weeks (longest run).
This freeze occurs randomly and during different activities, surfing the net, loading up bsplayer, closing down WoW, while idling. I've stressed the computer running loops of 3dMark 03 to try to force a crash, but it's never happened doing anything particularly intensive. Any help or suggestion as to what's causing this problem would be very appreciated.
My specs:
MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum s939
Athlon 64 3200+ (boxed)
OCZ Dual Channel Optimized PC3200 DDR400 512MBx2 CAS2.5 (OCZ4001024PDC-K)
Ati AIW 9800 Pro
Creative Audigy 2 Zs
Maxtor 200GB Sata drive 8mb cache (oem part)
Pioneer DVR AO6-U
Pioneer DVD Rom drive
All in an Antec Sonata case
Cooled by two 120 mm fans (trying running case open in case of cooling problem, did not help)
Powered by a 380 W Antec Power Supply that came with the case.
Again thanks for any thoughts or help.