itzlvx

I posted this in the technical area but no one responded...just reposting here since I'm a little desperate now.

Thanks

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Hey alls,

Need some help. My system freezes randomly and froze twice before I could post this message up. I've gotten varied use time from as lil as 10 minutes to as long as overnight 8 hours before it freezes.

Anyhow, My system specs

A tyan KT133A board running an amd 1.2tbird cpu
512ram
nvidia 64mb geforce2 mx 200
win2k
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At first I was thinking if heat issue was a problem.
I have a 300watt power supply plus two case fans (one blowing out from the back, one blowing in from the front bottom)
My hardware monitor shows an average temperature at around 38-40 degrees celsius. I sometimes get crashes at 35degrees. Im thinking my monitor is off but when i feel the heatsink it feels fine.

The funny thing is, my GeForce2 card is pretty hot. But I read around, that others have their cards kinda hot but it works fine. I found out something weird though, the sound on my system continues to play even though the system froze. (eg, playing game, playing mp3s)
Is it the video card? I cant do anything after the freeze (jamming keyboard moving mouse does nothing) All i can do is hit the reset button.

This is getting a bit annoying since the freezes are so random. I cant even monitor the temp and shut down or save in time before it freezes.

Is there anything that might be causing these sporadic freezes? Any info would be great! Thanks

itzlvx

itzlvx

UPDATE

When the system crashes while playing a mp3, it finishes the mp3 but does not go onto the next song.

Thanks for any help....

itzlvx

GraingerGuy

It could be that some hardware is sharing IRQs....make sure that isn't happening. (Like your vid card is sharing with your sound card)

Maybe unplug your case fans for a little while and see what happens

It could also be Win2k....maybe reinstall right on top of your current install.

Hope this helps.

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Time to switch to AMD now I guess... (just kidding... )
-Darkfury
5/23/05

I don't think this'll stop anything though - the better you idiot-proof a system, the more impressive the idiot becomes.
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5/30/08

clutchy

it's very possible you cracked or chipped your cpu.. You been messing with it? I get the same think in w2k just only in games. my chip is cracked btw.

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