A8N-SLI Deluxe random freezes

[Nocturnal]

My system is as follows:


Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe BIOSES: 1008, 1011, 1012-003 beta

CPU: AMD 64 3200+ Winchester

Memory: 2x512MB Crucial Ballistix PC3200

Hard Drive 1: 74GB Western Digital Raptor

Hard Drive 2: 300GB Maxtor Maxline 10

PSU: Antec TrueControl 550W

Video Card: eVGA 6800GT PCI-Express

Case: Antec P160 w/1x120mm intake and 1x120mm exhaust

Plextor 716SA SATA DVDRW



My problem:



Ever since I upgraded my BIOS to 1011 final, then to 1012-003 beta, then
down to 1011 final again, then finally down to 1008, I have been
experiencing lock ups that freeze my entire computer. No BSODs or errors in
event viewer. Just freezes my computer up completely. I cannot even
ctrl-alt-del either.



When I first started experiencing these lock ups it was when I upgraded to
1011 final BIOS. It would boot into Windows and as soon as I got maybe ten
seconds into Windows it would freeze just like how it's randomly freezing.
Removing one stick of memory seemed to stabilize the system. I then
upgraded to 1012-003 beta. From there I encountered problems with my
Plextor 716SA SATA burner. So I downgraded to 1011 final again and things
seemed ok. However I started to experience the same random lock ups. I
downgraded to 1008 and still encountered the same lock up. I am now at 1006
and I am wondering what might be causing this lock up? I'm going to go out
on a limb and remove one stick of memory if my system locks up once more.



Do any of you have any other ideas as to what might be happening?

 

[Leif Nordmand Andersen]

Hi Nocturnal

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:34:01 GMT, "Nocturnal"

Hard Drive 2: 300GB Maxtor Maxline 10

I have this board too.

I was experiencing this problem too.

I had two problems:

1. The above Maxtor Disk .... I've had two maxtor disks on this board.
I was getting freezes. However I DID get errors in the log too. I've
had the disks repaired with Maxtor. This happened only with Maxtor
SATA disks, not Maxtor IDE disks

I've given up and have replaced them with Seagates ... Since then the
freezing partly stopped.

2. I had Karen's Replicator running, to take backups of important
files often. It freezes up the computer too, so I've stopped it. and
for two weeks no freezes.

I would recomend you to try another harddisk (if only for testing)
WITHOUT the maxtor disk attached at all, if possible. In my search for
a solution, I found that many has had problems with the Maxtor SATA
disks and this board (and indeed other boards).

Regards Leif.