Lock Ups

Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by zad1337, Dec 29, 2007.

  1. zad1337

    zad1337 Geek Trainee

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    Hello, I have just built a new computer and every once in a while when im playing games (COD4, WoW, Warcraft 3) My screen will lock up and then I will here a puttering noise from my headphones for about 4 seconds then nothing. I then have to hard boot my computer. Ive done a mem test for over 12 hours with no problems, CPU runs hotest at 55C, GPU about 70. Only thing i could think of was the GPU overheating but then I froze once when i was just installing a program. I also thought it might be my old IDE HD but then i took it out and installed windows on my SATA and it is still doing the same thing. I also do no overclocking what so ever.

    My specs are:
    AMD x2 +6400

    XFX Geforce 8600GTS XXX

    Thermal Take V1 HSF

    MSI K9N SLI Platinum nForce 570 SLI Athlon 64/Athlon FX SktAM2 DDR2 ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA Retail

    ASUS DRW-2014L1T 20X SATA DVD Burner Black
    Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 Xtreme Performance

    COOLER MASTER RP-650-PCAR eXtreme Power 650W Power Supply Retail
     
  2. Crusha19

    Crusha19 Aspiring Poker Player

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  3. Tech

    Tech Padawan

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    You can stress test your system with Orthos Stress Prime 2004. Just download it and see if your system experiences problems whilst its working. Be sure to give it a good run.

    On the face of it I would say either RAM, PSU or mobo burn-in seeing as its a new system.
     

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