my computer HALTS sometimes, sometimes not...
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guys i need help! i have a problem my pc just hangs in the middle of something it just simply stops responding.. :^) if someone could please try to help me figure out which part could be the defective one... mother board? msi kt4av (socket a):suss: ..its a newly replaced motherboard , but with the same model and its already used and not brand new.. <-am thinkin this could be the one memory? i have 256 ddr 2(pcs) and i tried already to put one first.. (still hangs) then tried the other one too but still the same.. my pc still hangs in the middle of my game or sometimes even browsing only on the net processor? i also upgraded my processor from 1.2 athlon to 1.7 athlon also.. could this be the problem? but its working fine sometimes but sometimes not video card? nvidia fx550 256 mb 128 bit but i can play games like warcraft, gta san andreas with it before and still now.. power supply? 400 watts could this be my problem? could there be power shortage? i know my pc is kinna pretty old.. and just might suggest to buy a new one.. but i dont have budget yet.. and i do have a plan of buying 'AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core' that would be.. how much.. too damn expensive yet.. any help would be appreciated... and thanks again in advance
i never really like this... being a programmer...whhargghh!!
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guys i need help! i have a problem my pc just hangs in the middle of something it just simply stops responding.. :^) if someone could please try to help me figure out which part could be the defective one... mother board? msi kt4av (socket a):suss: ..its a newly replaced motherboard , but with the same model and its already used and not brand new.. <-am thinkin this could be the one memory? i have 256 ddr 2(pcs) and i tried already to put one first.. (still hangs) then tried the other one too but still the same.. my pc still hangs in the middle of my game or sometimes even browsing only on the net processor? i also upgraded my processor from 1.2 athlon to 1.7 athlon also.. could this be the problem? but its working fine sometimes but sometimes not video card? nvidia fx550 256 mb 128 bit but i can play games like warcraft, gta san andreas with it before and still now.. power supply? 400 watts could this be my problem? could there be power shortage? i know my pc is kinna pretty old.. and just might suggest to buy a new one.. but i dont have budget yet.. and i do have a plan of buying 'AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core' that would be.. how much.. too damn expensive yet.. any help would be appreciated... and thanks again in advance
i never really like this... being a programmer...whhargghh!!
First i would go about finding out if it actally is a hardware problem, as it could just be windows thats all broken down. A simple way to test this is to burn out a Linux live on CD (Like Knoppix or Ubuntu) and then sit and click around in that for a while, surf the web, check email etc. If it still crashes then hardware is you problem. If not, then windows/program/malware is the problem. (a re-install would probably help) If its hardware it can be anything really, RAM is an important part in any computer, but it could just as well be any other part. It could also be that some setting in your BIOS is overclocking your computer/parts of it, this is a common reason for freezing, so maybe you should load BIOS defaults too. This type of problem can be hard, as anything can affect everything else (in a odd way)... I hope this is a start...
//Johannes
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First i would go about finding out if it actally is a hardware problem, as it could just be windows thats all broken down. A simple way to test this is to burn out a Linux live on CD (Like Knoppix or Ubuntu) and then sit and click around in that for a while, surf the web, check email etc. If it still crashes then hardware is you problem. If not, then windows/program/malware is the problem. (a re-install would probably help) If its hardware it can be anything really, RAM is an important part in any computer, but it could just as well be any other part. It could also be that some setting in your BIOS is overclocking your computer/parts of it, this is a common reason for freezing, so maybe you should load BIOS defaults too. This type of problem can be hard, as anything can affect everything else (in a odd way)... I hope this is a start...
//Johannes
ei thanks! i ll try to reset my bios i havent try that.. and i wish that would solve this.. i havent done any overclocking yet but yeah maybe the previous user of my motherboard tried something else.. also i ll try to burn out too.. but first i need to download the ubuntu or knoppix but i think it will finish downloading tomorrow cause its more than 500 mb size..
i never really like this... being a programmer...whhargghh!!
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guys i need help! i have a problem my pc just hangs in the middle of something it just simply stops responding.. :^) if someone could please try to help me figure out which part could be the defective one... mother board? msi kt4av (socket a):suss: ..its a newly replaced motherboard , but with the same model and its already used and not brand new.. <-am thinkin this could be the one memory? i have 256 ddr 2(pcs) and i tried already to put one first.. (still hangs) then tried the other one too but still the same.. my pc still hangs in the middle of my game or sometimes even browsing only on the net processor? i also upgraded my processor from 1.2 athlon to 1.7 athlon also.. could this be the problem? but its working fine sometimes but sometimes not video card? nvidia fx550 256 mb 128 bit but i can play games like warcraft, gta san andreas with it before and still now.. power supply? 400 watts could this be my problem? could there be power shortage? i know my pc is kinna pretty old.. and just might suggest to buy a new one.. but i dont have budget yet.. and i do have a plan of buying 'AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core' that would be.. how much.. too damn expensive yet.. any help would be appreciated... and thanks again in advance
i never really like this... being a programmer...whhargghh!!
download a memtest86 CD, boot it, have it run a stress test overnight. If it passes with no errors you've proved the ram innocent. Running prime95 (24hrs per test type) in windows will stress your CPU and to an extent your mobo/ram. If it's erroring out you've got a hardware problem. If your new CPU uses more power than the old one but you're using the same heatsink it might be overheating and crashing. For a socketA board motherboard monitor should be able to keep an eye on your CPU temp. If you're going above 60C it might be a problem, 70C definitely would be. To test the PSU, get a multimeter and with the system fully loaded check the voltage between +5V(red) and ground(black) and +12V(yellow) and ground in the ATX plug. Depending on the probes you might need to supplement with bent paperclips to make contact. +-5% is within spec anything outside is a problem.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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download a memtest86 CD, boot it, have it run a stress test overnight. If it passes with no errors you've proved the ram innocent. Running prime95 (24hrs per test type) in windows will stress your CPU and to an extent your mobo/ram. If it's erroring out you've got a hardware problem. If your new CPU uses more power than the old one but you're using the same heatsink it might be overheating and crashing. For a socketA board motherboard monitor should be able to keep an eye on your CPU temp. If you're going above 60C it might be a problem, 70C definitely would be. To test the PSU, get a multimeter and with the system fully loaded check the voltage between +5V(red) and ground(black) and +12V(yellow) and ground in the ATX plug. Depending on the probes you might need to supplement with bent paperclips to make contact. +-5% is within spec anything outside is a problem.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
thanks guys for all your replies man and guess what!!? :rolleyes: last night i did reset the bios to default and i think it did solve it cause ive used it more than 5 hrs straight without halting.. before it hangs just within an hour.. and last night i did enjoy playing my warcraft(DOTA) and had a 'BEYOND GOD LIKE' ai hero killings hehe!!:cool: thanks to johpoke and also to dan neely but i still need to to burn out to be sure.. and yeah i should check my cpu temp.. you guys are great man i love this site more than ever
i never really like this... being a programmer...whhargghh!!
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thanks guys for all your replies man and guess what!!? :rolleyes: last night i did reset the bios to default and i think it did solve it cause ive used it more than 5 hrs straight without halting.. before it hangs just within an hour.. and last night i did enjoy playing my warcraft(DOTA) and had a 'BEYOND GOD LIKE' ai hero killings hehe!!:cool: thanks to johpoke and also to dan neely but i still need to to burn out to be sure.. and yeah i should check my cpu temp.. you guys are great man i love this site more than ever
i never really like this... being a programmer...whhargghh!!
:) Lucky that only reseting the bios fixed the problem, sometimes it can take forever to find the problem. Running prime95 for a few days as dan neely said is a way of ensuring 100% stability, and is a very good test to do on any computers you use. To check CPU temps use SpeedFan :)
//Johannes