Random Freezing

My computer randomly freeze up on me once every couple of days. I know its not a memory problam, checked with memtest86.

Any suggestions anyone?

 

Hi Raizel, can you post your current system specs please? It will help a lot in working out a soloution to your problem. Do you get any signs of your computer freezing up before it happens? Also, does it seem to happen during a particular program? Do you know what temperatures your system is running at?

Answer all these and we'll be one step closer to solving your problem.

P.S Welcome To MajorGeeks

 

Thats a good start, now how about you download a free diagnostics program from here and you can provide the answers Bobo and myself would like:

EVEREST Home Edition:

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

Expand Computer and select Sensors, this will give temps, CPU Fan RPM's and Volts send info on this. Also immediately after your next "crash" restart and enter your BIOS (by tapping "delete" at the first start up screen) and have a look at a section called PC Health (or something to that effect) and take a mental note of temps, CPU Fan RPM's and Volts.

Also from this app you will be able to obtain more technical specs on your sys to help us help you begin to diagnose your prob.

 

Ok, here are the specs:


Motherboard ID 63-1300-001169-00101111-040201-I865G$1I865XXX_A6728IMS V1.3 062403

Motherboard Name: MSI 865PE Neo2-S (MS-6728)

Front Side Bus Properties
Bus Type Intel NetBurst
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 203 MHz (QDR)
Effective Clock 810 MHz
Bandwidth 6481 MB/s

Memory Bus Properties
Bus Type Dual DDR SDRAM
Bus Width 128-bit
Real Clock 162 MHz (DDR)
Effective Clock 324 MHz
Bandwidth 5185 MB/s

Chipset Bus Properties
Bus Type Intel Hub Interface
Bus Width 8-bit
Real Clock 68 MHz (QDR)
Effective Clock 270 MHz
Bandwidth 270 MB/s

Motherboard Physical Info
CPU Sockets/Slots 1 Socket 478
Expansion Slots 5 PCI, 1 AGP
RAM Slots 4 DDR DIMM
Integrated Devices Audio
Form Factor ATX
Motherboard Size 240 mm x 300 mm
Motherboard Chipset i865PE
Extra Features CoreCell

Motherboard Manufacturer
Company Name Micro-Star International
Product Information http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_list.php
BIOS Download http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_list.php

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Processor: Intel Pentium 4, 2633 MHz
Video Adaptor: ATI Radeon 9600
Audio Adapter: Intel 82801EB ICH5 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-2/A-3]

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Sensor Properties
Sensor Type Winbond W83627HF (ISA 290h)

Temperatures
Motherboard 47 °C (117 °F)
CPU 39 °C (102 °F)
Aux 37 °C (99 °F)
WDC WD1200JB-32EVA0 38 °C (100 °F)

Cooling Fans
CPU 2722 RPM
Chassis 5192 RPM

Voltage Values
CPU Core 1.50 V
Aux 1.65 V
+3.3 V 3.36 V
+5 V 4.97 V
+12 V 11.92 V
-12 V -11.71 V
-5 V -5.00 V
+5 V Standby 4.99 V
VBAT Battery 3.09 V
Debug Info F 3E 41 FF
Debug Info T 47 39 37
Debug Info V 5E 67 D2 B9 C4 27 36 (01)

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I'll be sure to check that when it next crashes =)

 

Thats excellent, your temps/volts/RPMs' all look good. Next start-up goto your BIOS and just take a mental note of your "PC Health" (temps/volts/RPMs') and then compare with EVEREST when you get into the OS just to make sure they are similar. Have you tweaked the volts on your FSB?!? Slight OC?

 

They alll seem to match up and nope, I havn't tweaked with anything to do with hardware.

 

Well the "PC Health" looks good have you gone to and completed the mailware/spyware removal procedure. It may be a case of gremlins messing with your world. Have a look at this and although it takes time I do it 2-3 months to maintain sys security/stability and speed:

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

Also are you using a particular application when this occurs??

 

Double post damn have to say something, hmmmm....something

 

Done all that, and it could possibly be firefox. Thats is nearly always open on my comp.

 

Yep FF has been rumored to suffer memory leaks (search for if you want more info) and I would definately close it when not in use.

 

Ok so I found a fix for the memory leak. It has reduced FF's memory usage from 70k to 24k.

Computer seems more stable now. We'll see how it goes. btw if you want to have a look at the fix, its here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1327586/posts