• Help, hardware failing...
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I am experiencing some hardware failure on my only computer. I dont know what is going but I have been troubleshooting all night and have collected a bit of information on the problm. When I have the computer on, idle or not, the system completely freezes. Input is not accepted at all, for example caps lock does not emable/disable keyboard LEDs. Whenever the freeze occurs I must do a hard reset on the machine. Once, the machine didnt make it to the post screen. It has nevert turned itself off. I have reformated it to see if it were a driver issue but it did it a few minutes after install. Once it froze mid screensaver and woke from mouse movement still frozen. HW monitor showed all temperatures low and no where close to overheating. Normal idle temps for my system atleast(cpu ~45c). Specs are AMD athlon x2 64 6000+ Asrock a785gm-le hd radeon 4760 Random western digital 80gb hard drive 3gb of ram Any ideas? I cant afford a new computer right now(probably not for a while) and would like to have my PC back since its a very large part in communication for me. This computer is only barely a year old. Sorry for spelling errors. I am on a very old android phone
It could be bad ram. Get [url=http://www.memtest.org/]memtest[/url] and let it run for at least an hour. If it finds errors, remove all but one stick and try again to determine which stick is bad. Also check all the connections on the motherboard(graphics card, power, hard drive) lose cables can sometimes cause problems.
You might have a problem with Windows freezing. It could be a HDD problem. Try using a Ubuntu Live CD and see if it happens. heck, maybe even psu.. not sure how though. [editline]26th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=IpHa;40428516]It could be bad ram. Get [url=http://www.memtest.org/]memtest[/url] and let it run for at least an hour. If it finds errors, remove all but one stick and try again to determine which stick is bad. Also check all the connections on the motherboard(graphics card, power, hard drive) lose cables can sometimes cause problems.[/QUOTE] RAM would usually just give a BSOD. Also, this belongs in [URL="http://facepunch.com/forums/107"]Technical Support[/URL]
Image your hard drive.
[QUOTE=MTMod;40433180]Image your hard drive.[/QUOTE] Or don't care and backup vital files and do a clean re-install instead.. Newer harddrives are much bigger than 80gb anyways
I keep daily backups and already formated and reinstalled windows but the issuewas still present. :(
So you used a new HDD?
No. I dont have any other drive.
[QUOTE=false prophet;40437501]No. I dont have any other drive.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Killervalon;40433014]You might have a problem with Windows freezing. It could be a HDD problem. Try using a Ubuntu Live CD and see if it happens. [/QUOTE] Sorry, but do you even bother reading?
[QUOTE=Killervalon;40437524]Sorry, but do you even bother reading?[/QUOTE] Obviously i do care about reading if i want to save my pc. I installed debian already but the issue was present within minutes. Changing the os was one of the first things i did before posting here.
[QUOTE=false prophet;40441611]Obviously i do care about reading if i want to save my pc. I installed debian already but the issue was present within minutes. Changing the os was one of the first things i did before posting here.[/QUOTE] Again, I said you didn't read. I didn't say install, I said LIVE CD as in NO INSTALLING
I used a DSL live cd to grab some usb stuff but didnt leave it on long.
Totally hard locking without a BSOD or restarting is most commonly the motherboard Edit: As it's an asrock built before they were even remotely up to decent standards, I'd put money on it being the motherboard
It was the motherboard. I disassembled the thing to try out a different power supply and discovered that a cable had melted. Luckily, I just had to swap out some pins and it seems to be working perfectly fine again. At least I have a chance to prepare for imminent failure now.
Pictures?
Of the burn? It's just charcoal color and the connector on the motherboard had slight melting. With a pin missing completely. I didn't think about taking a picture of the mess. Oh and the connector on the power supply was also melted and charcoal'd.
What connector? the 24 pin or 4 pin?
4 pin connector.
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