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This has been driving me absolutely NUTS for more than a month now.
I bought an Asus M2A-MX and AMD Athlon XPx2 5400. Then i slapped in some new
DDR2 6400 800Mhz and proceeded to install the OS on a new WD caviar. For the
first week the system was running fine with a few hangs and, or , crashes but
then it got so bad that i could not even play games for 15 min before i was
frozen out.
I tried the"usual" remedy of updating graphics drivers blah blah blah that
you get told on the support forums for games that you pay to play online and
it did not help at all.
Failing that i did another complete reinstall of the OS on the disk and that
went fine for about a week and then all hell broke loose again. This time i
thought rather than just deleting the partition and FAT along with it i will
wipe the disk clean and try again. This also did not workas the freezing
issue was still there.
What was common in all of this was the procedure of getting to the point of
freezing up. And that was the OS install, the service packs (XP SP3), MOBO
and chipset drivers, BT Modem software and Norton.
Not wanting to repeat the same old problems i tried wiping the disk clean
again with Dariks boot and nuke since i was so paranoid something will get
left behind if i just install over the OS. I then got the computer running
with just vanilla XP, no SP on this disk, original MOBO disk drivers and
Guild Wars/ LOTRO.
GW ran fine for 4 hours so that gave me some hope and an indication that
maybe it was more than a PSU/overheating issue. None of my temps are out of
the ordinary by the way. CPU cores are at 45, GPU at 50 and case 47 idle, 55,
60 and 50 respectively so that cannot be the cause of the freezes.
Then this afternoon i got another freeze/hang. This hang has happened inside
the games, mostly, but also in the idle windows environment. I took a look at
the event viewer and noticed that just like before it was always the
Liveupdate that was the last thing there before the hang. Sometimes there was
a flurry of events in a very short time with processess starting and stopping
in rapid succession as well that i rememebered.
Thinking that the MS update somehow got corrupted i installed service pack 3
and i still get the event issues with lots of things going on at once.
Now i am suspecting that the CPU is just not able to handle the amount of
traffic that it is being asked to do in such a short time. I somehow cant
believe that an AMD dual core running 2, 2.8 Ghz processors, is having issues
running things for MS so i am getting pretty frustrated at this point.
For a while i thought it was the Norton Live update that was casuing this
but after not having it installed and still having issues i can no longer
believe this.
I am in the middle of getting another PSU that is far better than the cheap
400 watt one that came with the cheap case and if after that i am still in
teh same boat i am inclined to return the MOBO and CPU as the OS on the disks
have worked on the previous system without those issues.
I should also add that i stress tested the Memory with Memtest 86 for 6
hours while i slept one night and it came back negative.
I am at my wits end now so if you have any suggestions please post them and
i will try.
Thanks....
I bought an Asus M2A-MX and AMD Athlon XPx2 5400. Then i slapped in some new
DDR2 6400 800Mhz and proceeded to install the OS on a new WD caviar. For the
first week the system was running fine with a few hangs and, or , crashes but
then it got so bad that i could not even play games for 15 min before i was
frozen out.
I tried the"usual" remedy of updating graphics drivers blah blah blah that
you get told on the support forums for games that you pay to play online and
it did not help at all.
Failing that i did another complete reinstall of the OS on the disk and that
went fine for about a week and then all hell broke loose again. This time i
thought rather than just deleting the partition and FAT along with it i will
wipe the disk clean and try again. This also did not workas the freezing
issue was still there.
What was common in all of this was the procedure of getting to the point of
freezing up. And that was the OS install, the service packs (XP SP3), MOBO
and chipset drivers, BT Modem software and Norton.
Not wanting to repeat the same old problems i tried wiping the disk clean
again with Dariks boot and nuke since i was so paranoid something will get
left behind if i just install over the OS. I then got the computer running
with just vanilla XP, no SP on this disk, original MOBO disk drivers and
Guild Wars/ LOTRO.
GW ran fine for 4 hours so that gave me some hope and an indication that
maybe it was more than a PSU/overheating issue. None of my temps are out of
the ordinary by the way. CPU cores are at 45, GPU at 50 and case 47 idle, 55,
60 and 50 respectively so that cannot be the cause of the freezes.
Then this afternoon i got another freeze/hang. This hang has happened inside
the games, mostly, but also in the idle windows environment. I took a look at
the event viewer and noticed that just like before it was always the
Liveupdate that was the last thing there before the hang. Sometimes there was
a flurry of events in a very short time with processess starting and stopping
in rapid succession as well that i rememebered.
Thinking that the MS update somehow got corrupted i installed service pack 3
and i still get the event issues with lots of things going on at once.
Now i am suspecting that the CPU is just not able to handle the amount of
traffic that it is being asked to do in such a short time. I somehow cant
believe that an AMD dual core running 2, 2.8 Ghz processors, is having issues
running things for MS so i am getting pretty frustrated at this point.
For a while i thought it was the Norton Live update that was casuing this
but after not having it installed and still having issues i can no longer
believe this.
I am in the middle of getting another PSU that is far better than the cheap
400 watt one that came with the cheap case and if after that i am still in
teh same boat i am inclined to return the MOBO and CPU as the OS on the disks
have worked on the previous system without those issues.
I should also add that i stress tested the Memory with Memtest 86 for 6
hours while i slept one night and it came back negative.
I am at my wits end now so if you have any suggestions please post them and
i will try.
Thanks....