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my PC freezes up all the time!
Hi,
My Pentium 3 PC runs on NT 4.0. Two to three times a day, the PC freezes up, where the mouse and keyboard just freeze, and I have to turn off the computer. Once the PC reboots, everything works fine for a few hours, and then, the same thing occurs all over again. I took out the old memory and put in a known good working 128 Mb RAM. The problem still occurs. I believe 1 of the following is causing the problem: 1) defective P3 Intel chip 2) defective mother board 3) defective mouse 4) PC is getting too hot But how can I easily determine what's causing this problem? I don't have an extra P3 chip to test with. Thanks in advance. |
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You are on the right track. Checking the memory is a pretty good start.
Next I would go for checking the temperature and voltage with MBM. You can download it at http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ It will show you the temp and I would also check the voltages to see if maybe you have a bad power supply. "Yazmine L Tyler" wrote in message ... Hi, My Pentium 3 PC runs on NT 4.0. Two to three times a day, the PC freezes up, where the mouse and keyboard just freeze, and I have to turn off the computer. Once the PC reboots, everything works fine for a few hours, and then, the same thing occurs all over again. I took out the old memory and put in a known good working 128 Mb RAM. The problem still occurs. I believe 1 of the following is causing the problem: 1) defective P3 Intel chip 2) defective mother board 3) defective mouse 4) PC is getting too hot But how can I easily determine what's causing this problem? I don't have an extra P3 chip to test with. Thanks in advance. |
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also maybe some burn in software (sandra 2004 www.sisoftware.net) to get
some data flowing through the hardware. individual tests so you can test just the CPU, or just the ram. maybe 3dmark/aquamark for GFX loading. tim "D. Rogers" wrote in message ... You are on the right track. Checking the memory is a pretty good start. Next I would go for checking the temperature and voltage with MBM. You can download it at http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ It will show you the temp and I would also check the voltages to see if maybe you have a bad power supply. "Yazmine L Tyler" wrote in message ... Hi, My Pentium 3 PC runs on NT 4.0. Two to three times a day, the PC freezes up, where the mouse and keyboard just freeze, and I have to turn off the computer. Once the PC reboots, everything works fine for a few hours, and then, the same thing occurs all over again. I took out the old memory and put in a known good working 128 Mb RAM. The problem still occurs. I believe 1 of the following is causing the problem: 1) defective P3 Intel chip 2) defective mother board 3) defective mouse 4) PC is getting too hot But how can I easily determine what's causing this problem? I don't have an extra P3 chip to test with. Thanks in advance. |
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Yazmine L Tyler wrote:
Hi, My Pentium 3 PC runs on NT 4.0. Two to three times a day, the PC freezes up, where the mouse and keyboard just freeze, and I have to turn off the computer. Once the PC reboots, everything works fine for a few hours, and then, the same thing occurs all over again. I took out the old memory and put in a known good working 128 Mb RAM. The problem still occurs. I believe 1 of the following is causing the problem: 1) defective P3 Intel chip 2) defective mother board 3) defective mouse 4) PC is getting too hot But how can I easily determine what's causing this problem? I don't have an extra P3 chip to test with. Thanks in advance. I would not rule out a flakey power supply. |
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I had a similar problem with an NT 4.0 server system. In particular the
problem seemed to be aggrivated by audio clips. I was using a SB Live card and all patches were current. I did a clean install of Win2K server on the same hardware, and the problem is gone. While running the NT OS I frequently got buffer overrun notices for the keyboard and mouse. Perhaps you are getting these? You biggest issue is the oldest troubleshooting questiion for computing: hardware or software? Keep an open mind. I recently wasted three days chasing a software solution when the underlying problem was a faulty motherboard. If you can swing it and are comfortable with getting inside your system box, consider temporarily replacing your system disk with a cheap used one and building a Win98 or Win2K system on that disk. If the problem shows with the newly installed OS, I'd say you have a solid case for a hardware based problem. "Matt" wrote in message ... Yazmine L Tyler wrote: Hi, My Pentium 3 PC runs on NT 4.0. Two to three times a day, the PC freezes up, where the mouse and keyboard just freeze, and I have to turn off the computer. Once the PC reboots, everything works fine for a few hours, and then, the same thing occurs all over again. I took out the old memory and put in a known good working 128 Mb RAM. The problem still occurs. I believe 1 of the following is causing the problem: 1) defective P3 Intel chip 2) defective mother board 3) defective mouse 4) PC is getting too hot But how can I easily determine what's causing this problem? I don't have an extra P3 chip to test with. Thanks in advance. I would not rule out a flakey power supply. |
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