Ok I have had enough of this now to post about it.
Heres the situation.
on Random occasions (not always when playing a game but more often when playing a game)
What will happen is my Display will completely freeze. I will still have sound for 20 seconds or so OR until i press a button on a keyboard / controller, at which point the entire PC locks up and has to be hard rebooted.
I have done memory tests, Removed all memory and tried one at a time, replaced CPU, re-seated sound card / Graphics card, removed and installed new drivers (different versions also tried), replaced swapped out hard drives and reinstalled windows, Rest cmos on numerous occasions.
the problem is still occuring. I have not yet tried a new mobo or my old graphics card, or removed the sound card which will probably be my best step.
The only thing that the event viewer is telling me (that is not of normality) is this:
Normally i am brilliant at finding out whats causing things like this but this time i think its got me.
The system is not overheating in any way and nothing is overclocked.
System specs currently (brackets is the alternate item i have tested with):
CPU: AMD 6400 X2 (AMD Phenom X4 9950)
Ram: 4x1GB OCZ DDR2 800mhz 5-5-5-15 (tried 1gb at a time and 2 lots of 1gb Corsair 5-5-5-15 DDR2 800mhz)
Graphics: Nvidia XFX 9800GX2 (will try 8800GTX later)
Audio: Creative soundblaster X-FI Extreme audio 7.1
Motherboard: Asus M3N78 Pro
HDD: 500GB Seagate Baracuda + 250GB Samsung (36GB WD Raptor + 200GB Maxtor)
O/S: Windows Vista X64 Business edition.
so. I'm stumped.. anybody got any ideas i can try.
Heres the situation.
on Random occasions (not always when playing a game but more often when playing a game)
What will happen is my Display will completely freeze. I will still have sound for 20 seconds or so OR until i press a button on a keyboard / controller, at which point the entire PC locks up and has to be hard rebooted.
I have done memory tests, Removed all memory and tried one at a time, replaced CPU, re-seated sound card / Graphics card, removed and installed new drivers (different versions also tried), replaced swapped out hard drives and reinstalled windows, Rest cmos on numerous occasions.
the problem is still occuring. I have not yet tried a new mobo or my old graphics card, or removed the sound card which will probably be my best step.
The only thing that the event viewer is telling me (that is not of normality) is this:
Normally i am brilliant at finding out whats causing things like this but this time i think its got me.
The system is not overheating in any way and nothing is overclocked.
System specs currently (brackets is the alternate item i have tested with):
CPU: AMD 6400 X2 (AMD Phenom X4 9950)
Ram: 4x1GB OCZ DDR2 800mhz 5-5-5-15 (tried 1gb at a time and 2 lots of 1gb Corsair 5-5-5-15 DDR2 800mhz)
Graphics: Nvidia XFX 9800GX2 (will try 8800GTX later)
Audio: Creative soundblaster X-FI Extreme audio 7.1
Motherboard: Asus M3N78 Pro
HDD: 500GB Seagate Baracuda + 250GB Samsung (36GB WD Raptor + 200GB Maxtor)
O/S: Windows Vista X64 Business edition.
so. I'm stumped.. anybody got any ideas i can try.
