Okay, first, the specs of the machine:
MBO: Asrock AM2XLI-ESATA2 (crap mobo I know, no need to tell me that)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64X2 6000+
RAM: 3GB Crucial
GPU: ATI Radeon 3850 512mb
PSU: Corsair VX450
OS: Windows XP SP3 (OHNOES HE USES AN OLD OS IT IS SUK BLA BLA USE WINDOWS 7 WEEE I AM A WALRUS AND I HAVE A SEXY MOUSTACHEZ YAAAAY - now that we got over the fact that the W7 is better os than XP, so can we carry on with the program please? Thanks.)
Now the problem:
When I power on the computer, it boots normally, everything is fine, but after 5 minutes or an hour it will frezze.
When it freezes, one of the following will happen:
1. Freeze. Image stays on the screen. LED's on my mouse and keyboard stay lit, have power, but the computer does not react. to keypressess or moving the mouse. Only reboot button helps.
2. Freeze. Image stays for a couple seconds with black screen afterwards. LED's on mouse unlit, keyboard lit, computer doesn't react to mouse movement or to keyboard.
3. Freeze. Black screen followed by BSOD that points to ati2dvag STOP error. Mouse and keyboard don't react.(DUH)
And now here's the funny part: When I reboot the computer after one fo these happen, it works normally until I shut it down, and when I mean normally I mean there are no errors in games, no artifacts in any game or other graphical glitches, no problems encoding video, no problems with temperature, not a single one. That is until I shutdown the computer, where upon the freezing cycle will repeat after powering it on the next day.
What I did so far: Reinstalled windows, memtested the ram, tried removing ram module by module, cleaned the computer throughly for dust, checked the capacitors for leaks, tried different versions of Catalysts, checked for viruses, tested the hard drives for errors, changed the sata cables, and now I am out of ideas.
So I'm asking you guys here, what do you guys think what it may be. I'm thinking GPU,(and that's whay I put this topic here) but I'm probably wrong.
Anyway thanks to anyone who atleast tries to help me out.
MBO: Asrock AM2XLI-ESATA2 (crap mobo I know, no need to tell me that)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64X2 6000+
RAM: 3GB Crucial
GPU: ATI Radeon 3850 512mb
PSU: Corsair VX450
OS: Windows XP SP3 (OHNOES HE USES AN OLD OS IT IS SUK BLA BLA USE WINDOWS 7 WEEE I AM A WALRUS AND I HAVE A SEXY MOUSTACHEZ YAAAAY - now that we got over the fact that the W7 is better os than XP, so can we carry on with the program please? Thanks.)
Now the problem:
When I power on the computer, it boots normally, everything is fine, but after 5 minutes or an hour it will frezze.
When it freezes, one of the following will happen:
1. Freeze. Image stays on the screen. LED's on my mouse and keyboard stay lit, have power, but the computer does not react. to keypressess or moving the mouse. Only reboot button helps.
2. Freeze. Image stays for a couple seconds with black screen afterwards. LED's on mouse unlit, keyboard lit, computer doesn't react to mouse movement or to keyboard.
3. Freeze. Black screen followed by BSOD that points to ati2dvag STOP error. Mouse and keyboard don't react.(DUH)
And now here's the funny part: When I reboot the computer after one fo these happen, it works normally until I shut it down, and when I mean normally I mean there are no errors in games, no artifacts in any game or other graphical glitches, no problems encoding video, no problems with temperature, not a single one. That is until I shutdown the computer, where upon the freezing cycle will repeat after powering it on the next day.
What I did so far: Reinstalled windows, memtested the ram, tried removing ram module by module, cleaned the computer throughly for dust, checked the capacitors for leaks, tried different versions of Catalysts, checked for viruses, tested the hard drives for errors, changed the sata cables, and now I am out of ideas.
So I'm asking you guys here, what do you guys think what it may be. I'm thinking GPU,(and that's whay I put this topic here) but I'm probably wrong.
Anyway thanks to anyone who atleast tries to help me out.