XP Pro complete lockup

[Guest]

I hope some one can help here. for the last 3 weeks i feel like I'm banging
my head aganist the wall.

my PC keeps locking up, i dont mean windows will not respond, i mean
completely. mouse curser will not move, keyboard gets no result, fingerprint
scanner led does not changed when touched and dvd-rw will not eject. if i hit
reset i get the post screen frozen even after 20 mins. only solution it to
turn off completely and try again. this happens at random times, some times
on desktop, using media player, in a game, sending emails from outlook.

I have tried 3 hdds (1 ide and 2 sata) new bios flash, reinstall windows.
i even tried running a couter log to see any issue, no errors are shown or
sudden drop or rise in activity, ironicly they freeze at same time as lockup
so show nothing.
event viewer shows nothing at times of lockups, i have run full diagnostics
on all hardwear (ram/hdd/mobo etc) all show as ok and a fresh install of xp
after a low level format and i still have same problem.

the lockups seam to have nothing to do with workloads a soak test for 8 hrs
showed no problems but a simple mpg-2 playback 2 hrs later locked up system
after just 23 mins. after restart played same file with no problems.

any advice?

my set up is
AMD 3800+ X2
2Gb ddr 400
ECS KN1 SLI Extreme
Asus 6600GT Extreme 256mb with dual display (19"crt & tv out)
samsung SP2504C sata harddrive

 

[thecreator]

Hi Brian,

Have you ran a Scheduled Chkdsk after recovering from being frozen?
Check both options. Takes longer, but the free space may be wrong.

Click Start > My Computer > Right-click on the Hard Drive containing
your operating system and click Properties. When the Window opens up, click
Tools then under Error-checking click Check Now. Check both options. Click
Start and click Yes to Schedule.

Before you reboot, use Explore and clean out your \Temp Folders of all
sub-folders and files and delete the files not currently in use. Run Disk
Cleanup, then reboot.

 

[Michael Neal]

A couple ideas:

1) Make sure all your fans in the case are running. Could be an overheating
issue.

2) Try swapping in different RAM if you can. If you have more than one
stick, try them one at time.

 

[Guest]

well the full scandisks shows no errors and you sugestion is next on list,
ive already tried another cpu and will now try with 1 of the 4 sticks or ram
and add one a day till it shows if it makes any diff i will post the result
here to let others see what happened.

so time for a minimal config

as for temp harddrive temp shows as 31.0c all 4 80mm fans are working but i
wont rule it out