AmanteImperfett
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Hello,
I am new to the boards and have been reading some posts and thought I might be able to get help here. I am pretty sure this issue has been covered one too many times but I wanted to start a thread so I could focus on this issue alone and see if anything has progressed since the last time issues were handled.
About half a month ago my computer began to randomly freeze. When I say freeze, nothing on the screen moves (not the mouse, clock) my keyboard does nothing (tried ctrl-alt-del several times and any other combination to get windows to pop up) and the hard drive light stops blinking.
I first noticed this problem when I bought my new sound card (Sound Blaster Audigy 2, I believe). This led me to believe that it was driver issue or what have you so I checked for new drivers, I had the most recent. I checked in the hardware profiles and it was running fine, did the sound tests and everything turned out fine. From some posts I have been reading, there is a chance it could be sharing the same IRQ. Is it possible to encounter freezes when devices share the same IRQ? (I would imagine so).
I thought it might have been a hard drive problem so I rid myself of my old hard drive and upgraded to a Seagate 160gig HDD. Everything seemed to be running fine until I played a game. The game decided to freeze while starting up so I hit the restart button on my case (as usual) and the computer booted fine. I finally was able to get into the game and play but about 5 minutes in, it froze again.
Before when I would get these freezes, the sound would emit a constant noise as if it stuck on the tone it was on just as it froze. Now when it freezes, I get no sound at all. Just a click and then silence. Suffice it to say I have had about enough of this issue.
I completely wiped my system and upgraded. Specs are as follows (from what I can remember):
Processor: 3.06P4 533Mhz FSB
Motherboard: Asrock P4S55FX+
Video card: eVGA Geforce FX 6800 GT
Sound card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value
Power Supply: 500Watt
RAM: 512mb Corsair PC2700 (It should be noted that I put in another 512 stick of PC2100 which could be a lead to the issue.)
I have a heatsink and fan on the processor (of course) and a fan at the front and back of the case. There is a fan on the bottom side of the power supply for extra air flow. The graphics card has it's own heatsink and fan as well.
I can not think of any other cause to this issue other than:
A) The RAM is conflicting with each other
B) The sound card is sharing an IRQ with something else
I do not believe this is a heat issue but it is possible. I have made sure to have enough fans blowing to keep air flow. I monitored my grpahics card and the threshold is around 120* C. It runs at around 70-75* C at max.
If anyone has any wisdom they might be able to share, please do. I am not sure what else to do now and am getting desperate enough to contact the Geek Squad *shudders at the thought*
THANKS!
I am new to the boards and have been reading some posts and thought I might be able to get help here. I am pretty sure this issue has been covered one too many times but I wanted to start a thread so I could focus on this issue alone and see if anything has progressed since the last time issues were handled.
About half a month ago my computer began to randomly freeze. When I say freeze, nothing on the screen moves (not the mouse, clock) my keyboard does nothing (tried ctrl-alt-del several times and any other combination to get windows to pop up) and the hard drive light stops blinking.
I first noticed this problem when I bought my new sound card (Sound Blaster Audigy 2, I believe). This led me to believe that it was driver issue or what have you so I checked for new drivers, I had the most recent. I checked in the hardware profiles and it was running fine, did the sound tests and everything turned out fine. From some posts I have been reading, there is a chance it could be sharing the same IRQ. Is it possible to encounter freezes when devices share the same IRQ? (I would imagine so).
I thought it might have been a hard drive problem so I rid myself of my old hard drive and upgraded to a Seagate 160gig HDD. Everything seemed to be running fine until I played a game. The game decided to freeze while starting up so I hit the restart button on my case (as usual) and the computer booted fine. I finally was able to get into the game and play but about 5 minutes in, it froze again.
Before when I would get these freezes, the sound would emit a constant noise as if it stuck on the tone it was on just as it froze. Now when it freezes, I get no sound at all. Just a click and then silence. Suffice it to say I have had about enough of this issue.
I completely wiped my system and upgraded. Specs are as follows (from what I can remember):
Processor: 3.06P4 533Mhz FSB
Motherboard: Asrock P4S55FX+
Video card: eVGA Geforce FX 6800 GT
Sound card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value
Power Supply: 500Watt
RAM: 512mb Corsair PC2700 (It should be noted that I put in another 512 stick of PC2100 which could be a lead to the issue.)
I have a heatsink and fan on the processor (of course) and a fan at the front and back of the case. There is a fan on the bottom side of the power supply for extra air flow. The graphics card has it's own heatsink and fan as well.
I can not think of any other cause to this issue other than:
A) The RAM is conflicting with each other
B) The sound card is sharing an IRQ with something else
I do not believe this is a heat issue but it is possible. I have made sure to have enough fans blowing to keep air flow. I monitored my grpahics card and the threshold is around 120* C. It runs at around 70-75* C at max.
If anyone has any wisdom they might be able to share, please do. I am not sure what else to do now and am getting desperate enough to contact the Geek Squad *shudders at the thought*
THANKS!