A CPU and motherboard upgrade is causing irregular hardware freezes.

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1. What errors are present in the event viewer after one of these freezes?

2. Have you tested your PSU's output voltages? (guides available in the
archives of this group and many places online, with images)

3. Instead of banging your head trying to figure this out, back up your
data (it should have been backed up anyway prior to changing
motherboards) and do a clean install (reformat, reinstall) of windows.

Cheers,

Ari

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Thanks spodosaurus for replying!
No errors are present in the event viewer after one of these freezes.
Asus probe 2 and Everest Ultimate show that my PSU's output voltages
are in +-2% range under any load.
I will lose unrecoverably many programs and custom settings if I'll
make a clean install (reformat, reinstall) of windows.
Regards,
Dima

 

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Thanks for replying!
Gigabyte HD 2600 pro. Yes, I tried installing a different Gigabyte HD
2600 pro exemplar. This did not help. Gigabyte HD 2600 pro is the only
passively cooled Radeon HD card with two DVI outputs.
Regards,
Dima

 

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Why assume Windows (which is probably bad enough to cause it all)?
The OS may very well be some version of Linux.

It's called probability, mate.

At any rate, it
smells like a memory fault, or a possible loose connection
somewhere.

Yeah, running memtest for a few passes is worth it.

If the OP has ECC memory he can probably discard the
idea of a memory fault. Another possibility is power supply
reaching marginality.

He says he's looked at the reported values...though I suggested testing
them (I was thinking of a multimeter) - reported values don't always
refresh fast enough to show rapid fluctuations.

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Hello!
My computer began to freeze irregularly (monitors go blank, keyboard
stops responding, HDDs stop working, sometimes a cyclic sound appears
from a motherboard speaker output) after replacing motherboard
Chaintech 6btm, P3-750, 526Mb RAM with motherboard Asus P5W DH Deluxe,
Core 2 Duo E6750, 2Gb RAM, Gigabyte HD 2600 pro. Replacing Asus P5W DH
Deluxe with Asus P5K, Gigabyte HD 2600 pro with another exemplar,
replacing PSU FSP350-60GLN with Zalman 460B-ASP have not helped.
The HUTIL utility self test shows that Samsung HDD SP2514N is healthy.
What is causing the freezes? How to prevent the freezes?
Regards,
Dima
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Try booting a Linux LiveCD such as Knoppix and see if you have the same
effect.

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It's called probability, mate.


Yeah, running memtest for a few passes is worth it.


He says he's looked at the reported values...though I suggested testing
them (I was thinking of a multimeter) - reported values don't always
refresh fast enough to show rapid fluctuations.

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Thanks spodosaurus and CBFalconer for your replies!
BurnIt 5.3 Pro and Everest Ultimate memory and stability tests did not
find any memory faults.
I had set the all voltages refresh rates to 1sec. The Everest Ultimate
full stability test did not find any voltage fluctuation.
Regards,
Dima

 

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It's called probability, mate.


Yeah, running memtest for a few passes is worth it.


He says he's looked at the reported values...though I suggested testing
them (I was thinking of a multimeter) - reported values don't always
refresh fast enough to show rapid fluctuations.

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Hello!
I go blue screen: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Stop: 0x000000D1
NDIS: SYS_ADDRESS B9D1B504 base at B9D18000 date stamp 41107EC3
during 3Dmark 2006.
Could an upgrade to Windows Vista help?
Regards,
Dima

 

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No idea, I've never done it that way. I've always done a clean install
or a repair/reinstall method.

I really suggest that you get a new hard drive, even a cheap 40GB refurb
- about $30, and install clean to test your hardware. None here are
going to be able to tell you where the problem is with so many possible
problems. You need to isolate it to hardware or software, and without a
fresh install it's going to be dang near impossible to do that.

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Thanks Leythos for replying!
It looks like unchecking "Enable write combining" in "ATI Radeo HD
2600 Properties" window prevents the computer stops. How to "Enable
write combining" without the computer stops?
Regards,
Dima