Alright, I've been plagued by this problem for months, and can't quite pin it down. I've got an intel d915pgn motherboard with a pentium 3ghz prescott cpu. I'm running 2 gigs of Crucial Ballistx ram, and have a Diamond x550 256mb video card.
What's happening is my computer tends to freeze up randomly, and when I restart I often get an error code of 2 beeps, a pause, then 8 more beeps. Now I've never been sure if the 2 beeps should be counted or not.
Anyways, 8 beeps is a memory error, and 10 is a video error. I thought the problem might be a video error from overheating for awhile, but I think I've pinned it down to the ram.
When I run the computer with just 1gig of ram installed into the first 2 slots I don't seem to have a problem. I've been running it like that for a few days now and no freezing.
I just put the other gig of ram in a while ago, and started playing a game, and bam! The computer freezes again. I restart a couple of times, get the error code, play the game again, and it freezes again.
It seems to do it more when I play a game, but not always. Sometimes I will run the computer all day and not have a single problem. Sometimes it will run for a week or so with no problem. Lately though it has been crashing constantly, no matter what program I was running it would freeze up within 10 minutes of starting windows XP. That's when I took out the ram and tried running it.
I've also switched the ram out to see if it was bad, but that didn't make a difference. I suspect it might be overheating, as my computer tends to run hot, but the freezing is so sporadic I can't be sure, and sometimes it gives me the error code when I first start it in the morning.
I'm pretty good with computers, and have always been able to troubleshoot a problem and solve it, but this one has been a real pain in the *** to figure out. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
What's happening is my computer tends to freeze up randomly, and when I restart I often get an error code of 2 beeps, a pause, then 8 more beeps. Now I've never been sure if the 2 beeps should be counted or not.
Anyways, 8 beeps is a memory error, and 10 is a video error. I thought the problem might be a video error from overheating for awhile, but I think I've pinned it down to the ram.
When I run the computer with just 1gig of ram installed into the first 2 slots I don't seem to have a problem. I've been running it like that for a few days now and no freezing.
I just put the other gig of ram in a while ago, and started playing a game, and bam! The computer freezes again. I restart a couple of times, get the error code, play the game again, and it freezes again.
It seems to do it more when I play a game, but not always. Sometimes I will run the computer all day and not have a single problem. Sometimes it will run for a week or so with no problem. Lately though it has been crashing constantly, no matter what program I was running it would freeze up within 10 minutes of starting windows XP. That's when I took out the ram and tried running it.
I've also switched the ram out to see if it was bad, but that didn't make a difference. I suspect it might be overheating, as my computer tends to run hot, but the freezing is so sporadic I can't be sure, and sometimes it gives me the error code when I first start it in the morning.
I'm pretty good with computers, and have always been able to troubleshoot a problem and solve it, but this one has been a real pain in the *** to figure out. Any help would be greatly appreciated!