I recently have bought a GTX 480 and I have been having constant crashes where the computer will freeze and audio will loop, Now I have had these problems with my 9800 GX2. So I think that it is something other than my GPU but it has been happening more often with this new card, Sometimes it will flash a blue screen but it is too quick to get a good look at the error message. Also I have upgraded every part in my computer except my power supply and a hard drive from when these problems first started happening, So is it possible that it could be the hard drive or the power supply?
Yes full computer freezes are usually caused by the harddrive failing. You might want to chkdsk it or find some software to tell you how many bad sectors exist in it.
[QUOTE=Naelstrom;31532100]Yes full computer freezes are usually caused by the harddrive failing. You might want to chkdsk it or find some software to tell you how many bad sectors exist in it.[/QUOTE]
Software suggestions?
[url]http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html[/url]
This should be all you need.
Okay so I just ran a Disk check on the drive and it came out completely clean
What model is your powersupply? Try reinstalling drivers for all your parts: network, audio, gpu, etc.
Its a CoolMax 800w 950B its more than enough to power the computer
Can you post some of the bluescreen files or stop codes? They can be found in "event viewer" or "reliabilty monitor" or something like that.
Well it seems that all the critical errors have a Source of "Kernel Power"
Example of one
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}
EventID 41
Version 2
Level 1
Task 63
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x8000000000000002
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2011-08-04T04:12:04.663609000Z
EventRecordID 38067
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 4
[ ThreadID] 8
Channel System
Computer Nathan-PC
- Security
[ UserID] S-1-5-18
- EventData
BugcheckCode 0
BugcheckParameter1 0x0
BugcheckParameter2 0x0
BugcheckParameter3 0x0
BugcheckParameter4 0x0
SleepInProgress false
PowerButtonTimestamp 0
[editline]August 4th 2011[/editline]
I have also had the thought that I might be putting too much voltage through one 12v Rail on my PSU
Could that be the case?
I really have no idea how a powersupply or electronics in general work. I'm sorry but i can't help you much from here.
Well I just had another crash after putting the GPU on two 12v rails and changing out the hard drive completely.
Any other suggestions? At this point I am starting to think that it is the PSU that is the problem
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