Hello, Recently my computer has been giving me blue screens and also freezing up (mouse, keyboard, nothin works, basically off but still displaying last thing). It used to do this when my graphics card was overheating but iv bought a new fan (still working) and it hasnt happend for a while. I began to think it was my DVD Drive (Pioneer) because it seemed to happen alot when burning DVDs and also seemed to happen less when it was unplugged. I recently noticed that when i try to cut/copy items from my secondary hard drive (Maxtor 200GB) it etiehr takes forever and blows the hell out of the cpu usage or just crashes the comp (freeze or bluescsreen). I also noticed that burning dvds with dats on that drive took incredibly longer and used almost 100% cpu and burning from my reg drive (WD 160GB) didnt. Most of these files are AVIs. Windwos XP Thanks, Graeme
hmm, let me check raidmax 350W also duron 1.6ghz 1gig corsair dual channel geforce 5700LE 256mb uh thats it i tink
make sure you got prop. ventilation, and make sure your CPU fan is free from dust coz that can cause crashes too. Your Psu does seem a little low, but should struggle to keep that system running.
it sounds as though either your CPU or grafx card may be overheating the first thing i would look at is the CPU this will keep an eye on things for you, if CPU temp below 60*c (full load) CPU is probably fine, next is the grafx card this will check for an overheating grafx card, beyond that i would say try reseating everything (CPU, RAM, grfx card, etc. etc.)
Run [link=http://www.memtest86.com/]Memory Test[/link] overnight and see if you comes out with any error.
also i jus cheked my temps (while moving stuff from the maxtor to the WD at about 98% cpu usage) cpu--39C WD-37C Maxtor-40C
