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| William J. Lunsford 2003-12-18, 12:24 pm |
| I am using a homebuilt with an Athlon XP 1700 and WinXP Home and am
beginning the process of trying to track down the cause of occasional random
freezes. My BIOS shows an 86 degree F. system temperature and a 96 degree F.
CPU temperature. Are these temperatures within the normal range?
My system was problem free before this started several weeks ago. I can't
think of any changes to the system. The freezes are becoming more frequent.
I recently did a system scan with Norton AV, used Disk Cleanup, CheckDisk,
and Disk Defragmenter. When the system freezes, nothing short of the reset
button will work. I am questioning the temperatures because the freezes do
not occur until I have used the machine for a while. What else should I try?
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| azimuth40 2003-12-18, 1:10 pm |
| For an Athlon your temp's are fine actually on the low end so that is not your problem.
Check the air flow around your video card, if it has a fan on the GPU then check it. Lower the colors per bit and the resolution if you can stand it and the refresh frequency. See what happens. If you have recently moved your system then reseat your video card, especially if you have no connector latch for the dog ear on an agp card.
Check the RAM, If you can borrow another piece then try it. Otherwise try a burn in test routine like Sandra.
Check your power supply voltages if you know how. See what happens under heavy activity. If your supply was marginal to start with then it gets worse after a few weeks to months.
For an Athlon your temp's are fine so that is not your problem. | |
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| William,
A couple of things you might check are the various PS voltages (R:+5, W:-5,
Y:+12, Blue:-12 all within -10 to +8% I believe is the usual spec), and run
some extended memory diagnostics. You might also double-check all cable
connections and reseat all cards.
Cheers,
jt
jthomas2y@yahoo.xyz.com (to send to my email, remove .xyz)
"William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> I am using a homebuilt with an Athlon XP 1700 and WinXP Home and am
> beginning the process of trying to track down the cause of occasional
random
> freezes. My BIOS shows an 86 degree F. system temperature and a 96 degree
F.
> CPU temperature. Are these temperatures within the normal range?
>
> My system was problem free before this started several weeks ago. I can't
> think of any changes to the system. The freezes are becoming more
frequent.
> I recently did a system scan with Norton AV, used Disk Cleanup, CheckDisk,
> and Disk Defragmenter. When the system freezes, nothing short of the reset
> button will work. I am questioning the temperatures because the freezes do
> not occur until I have used the machine for a while. What else should I
try?
>
>
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| William J. Lunsford 2003-12-18, 6:24 pm |
| Thank you! I'll check as soon as I can find the time and get back to the
group with the results.
"jt" <diespam@diespam.com> wrote in message
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> William,
> A couple of things you might check are the various PS voltages (R:+5,
W:-5,
> Y:+12, Blue:-12 all within -10 to +8% I believe is the usual spec), and
run
> some extended memory diagnostics. You might also double-check all cable
> connections and reseat all cards.
>
> Cheers,
> jt
> jthomas2y@yahoo.xyz.com (to send to my email, remove .xyz)
>
>
> "William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:SUkEb.13186$aw2.7128122@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com...
> random
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> F.
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> frequent.
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> try?
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>
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| William J. Lunsford 2003-12-18, 6:24 pm |
| Thanks for the help! I'll get on this as soon as I get some time and I'll
get back to the group with the results.
"azimuth40" <azimuth40.yndkf@mail.examnotes.net> wrote in message
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>
> For an Athlon your temp's are fine actually on the low end so that is
> not your problem.
>
> Check the air flow around your video card, if it has a fan on the GPU
> then check it. Lower the colors per bit and the resolution if you can
> stand it and the refresh frequency. See what happens. If you have
> recently moved your system then reseat your video card, especially if
> you have no connector latch for the dog ear on an agp card.
>
> Check the RAM, If you can borrow another piece then try it. Otherwise
> try a burn in test routine like Sandra.
>
> Check your power supply voltages if you know how. See what happens
> under heavy activity. If your supply was marginal to start with then
> it gets worse after a few weeks to months.
>
> For an Athlon your temp's are fine so that is not your problem.
>
>
> azimuth40
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| hootnholler 2003-12-19, 2:24 am |
| Link for a memory tester...
http://www.memtest86.com/
Also, just for the realm of the weird, if you are using an asus board,
double check the site for an upgrade to the BIOS temperature readings. As
one other had posted, those temperatures are very good, even on the low
side. Asus had some problems with this about 2 years ago... just trying to
think of anything unusual. The others have nailed the main ones! :-)
Hoot
"William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the help! I'll get on this as soon as I get some time and I'll
> get back to the group with the results.
>
> "azimuth40" <azimuth40.yndkf@mail.examnotes.net> wrote in message
> news:azimuth40.yndkf@mail.examnotes.net...
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| William J. Lunsford 2003-12-19, 11:24 am |
| Thanks for the help! The board is an ECS K7S5A Pro.
"hootnholler" <nospam@goaway.com> wrote in message
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> Link for a memory tester...
>
> http://www.memtest86.com/
>
> Also, just for the realm of the weird, if you are using an asus board,
> double check the site for an upgrade to the BIOS temperature readings. As
> one other had posted, those temperatures are very good, even on the low
> side. Asus had some problems with this about 2 years ago... just trying
to
> think of anything unusual. The others have nailed the main ones! :-)
>
> Hoot
>
> "William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:BOpEb.13271$aw2.7166342@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com...
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| William J. Lunsford 2003-12-19, 3:24 pm |
| I may be speaking too soon, but it appears, so far, that an updated video
card driver may have solved my problem with freezes. I'll let you know if
I'm wrong. Thanks again to all for your help! Have a wonderful holiday!
"William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:SUkEb.13186$aw2.7128122@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com...
> I am using a homebuilt with an Athlon XP 1700 and WinXP Home and am
> beginning the process of trying to track down the cause of occasional
random
> freezes. My BIOS shows an 86 degree F. system temperature and a 96 degree
F.
> CPU temperature. Are these temperatures within the normal range?
>
> My system was problem free before this started several weeks ago. I can't
> think of any changes to the system. The freezes are becoming more
frequent.
> I recently did a system scan with Norton AV, used Disk Cleanup, CheckDisk,
> and Disk Defragmenter. When the system freezes, nothing short of the reset
> button will work. I am questioning the temperatures because the freezes do
> not occur until I have used the machine for a while. What else should I
try?
>
>
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| William J. Lunsford 2003-12-20, 9:23 am |
| I was wrong. My system froze again this morning. I'll go back to
troubleshooting as I get the time.
"William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:TBIEb.13530$aw2.7353635@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com...
> I may be speaking too soon, but it appears, so far, that an updated video
> card driver may have solved my problem with freezes. I'll let you know if
> I'm wrong. Thanks again to all for your help! Have a wonderful holiday!
>
> "William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:SUkEb.13186$aw2.7128122@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com...
> random
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> F.
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> frequent.
CheckDisk,[color=blue]
reset[color=blue]
do[color=blue]
> try?
>
>
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| rbeardjr 2003-12-20, 12:23 pm |
| I would definatly check the RAM, could be a stick going bad, when the
machine POST's it probably wouldn't notice it till the system heats up
"William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:yhYEb.13640$aw2.7496189@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com...
> I was wrong. My system froze again this morning. I'll go back to
> troubleshooting as I get the time.
>
> "William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:TBIEb.13530$aw2.7353635@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com...
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| William J. Lunsford 2003-12-20, 4:23 pm |
| Thanks! That's one of the things I'm planning to check when I get the time.
"rbeardjr" <rbeardjr@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I would definatly check the RAM, could be a stick going bad, when the
> machine POST's it probably wouldn't notice it till the system heats up
> "William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:yhYEb.13640$aw2.7496189@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com...
> video
> if
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| William J. Lunsford 2003-12-23, 12:24 pm |
| I tried almost everything suggested in this group and another group. The
power supply tested OK with a PC Power & Cooling power supply tester. The
power supply is a 300W. made for Premier by ATNG. I have ordered a MEMTEST
floppy to test the RAM, but don't have it yet. I reseated memory and all
cards. All fans are working. I ran System File Checker. I still had
occasional random freezes until I installed DirectX 9 and reinstalled my
video drivers again. Perhaps I am speaking too soon again, however, so far,
the freezes have stopped.
"William J. Lunsford" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:SUkEb.13186$aw2.7128122@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com...
> I am using a homebuilt with an Athlon XP 1700 and WinXP Home and am
> beginning the process of trying to track down the cause of occasional
random
> freezes. My BIOS shows an 86 degree F. system temperature and a 96 degree
F.
> CPU temperature. Are these temperatures within the normal range?
>
> My system was problem free before this started several weeks ago. I can't
> think of any changes to the system. The freezes are becoming more
frequent.
> I recently did a system scan with Norton AV, used Disk Cleanup, CheckDisk,
> and Disk Defragmenter. When the system freezes, nothing short of the reset
> button will work. I am questioning the temperatures because the freezes do
> not occur until I have used the machine for a while. What else should I
try?
>
>
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