Mikepsyche
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The past week or so, my computer has been occasionally freezing, but it's happening way more often now. Usually every day, or every night more specifically. Sometimes 2 or 3 times a night.
Whatever program I'm working with locks up. I can usually minimize it or get out of it (but not close it) but can't open anything else up. Sometimes I can open another program, or click on something, but it usually takes like, a few minutes. And it usually locks up as well. Ctrl-alt-delete does not work when this happens. Happens in games too, although games tend to be able to last a bit longer before they freeze. For instance, one time In Half-life 2, the game froze, the sound looped, and there was a quick blue screen. It said a lot of stuff, definitely couldn't read it all in time, but it definitely said at the bottom "dumping physical memory". That got to 100%, then it rebooted. Usually, it just freezes. There is no blue screen, and it doesn't reboot on its own. I usually have no other choice but to restart the computer though. Also, don't know whether this means anything, but a defragging utility I use, O&O, always runs down on the task bar. It always says 0%, but when this freezing problem occurs, sometimes I look at it and it has a random percentage - like tonight I think it was 56%. Not sure if this would mean anything, but it always says 0% and only changes when this problem happens.
My brother said it might be bad RAM, so I ran memtest all day, and there weren't any errors.
This problem is so vague, it seems like it could be anything. But any help would be vastly, vastly appreciated.
Here's my system specs:
i7 920
Gigabyte UD5
EVGA GTX 260 Core 216
6 GB G.Skill Tri-Channel 1600
Seagate 640GB HD
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W
Acer 22" V223W
Antec 1200
My BIOS version is F3 - the only other one I know of for the GA-UD5 is F4, is that right? Because I seem to remember people mentioning a bunch of different ones for the UD5, just withdifferent lower-case letters, like F4r and stuff.
I nvidia's site for drivers, and they did release new ones 1/22/09. I should probably get those anyway, but could that be the problem?
EDIT: I closed O&O defrag, and it has been running for a bit longer than it usually does without freezing. Probably just me being really hopeful though.
Whatever program I'm working with locks up. I can usually minimize it or get out of it (but not close it) but can't open anything else up. Sometimes I can open another program, or click on something, but it usually takes like, a few minutes. And it usually locks up as well. Ctrl-alt-delete does not work when this happens. Happens in games too, although games tend to be able to last a bit longer before they freeze. For instance, one time In Half-life 2, the game froze, the sound looped, and there was a quick blue screen. It said a lot of stuff, definitely couldn't read it all in time, but it definitely said at the bottom "dumping physical memory". That got to 100%, then it rebooted. Usually, it just freezes. There is no blue screen, and it doesn't reboot on its own. I usually have no other choice but to restart the computer though. Also, don't know whether this means anything, but a defragging utility I use, O&O, always runs down on the task bar. It always says 0%, but when this freezing problem occurs, sometimes I look at it and it has a random percentage - like tonight I think it was 56%. Not sure if this would mean anything, but it always says 0% and only changes when this problem happens.
My brother said it might be bad RAM, so I ran memtest all day, and there weren't any errors.
This problem is so vague, it seems like it could be anything. But any help would be vastly, vastly appreciated.
Here's my system specs:
i7 920
Gigabyte UD5
EVGA GTX 260 Core 216
6 GB G.Skill Tri-Channel 1600
Seagate 640GB HD
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W
Acer 22" V223W
Antec 1200
My BIOS version is F3 - the only other one I know of for the GA-UD5 is F4, is that right? Because I seem to remember people mentioning a bunch of different ones for the UD5, just withdifferent lower-case letters, like F4r and stuff.
I nvidia's site for drivers, and they did release new ones 1/22/09. I should probably get those anyway, but could that be the problem?
EDIT: I closed O&O defrag, and it has been running for a bit longer than it usually does without freezing. Probably just me being really hopeful though.