Windows Freezes and now has started occasional BSoD

have just bought a new system with 2x200gb Diamond Max plus 9's in a RAID array and it has been unstable from the word go. When I looked at the temperatures I found out that the disks are running at 56degrees!

To check if this was causing the problems I ran the system with the disks out side the case with a fan heater, (set to blow cold air btw ) and it's ran sweet as for a few days.

Now however I have discovered further problems. Even once my hard drives are nice and cool my system continues to periodically freeze and occasionally but rarely it will reset or give a BSoD with an error about IRQ greater than or equal to something or other.

I have run memtest86 for a whole day, (26 passes!) and no errors were found. I am running out of ideas here – nothing else is running hot, the memory is fine – no spyware or viruses present – Drivers up to date.

Help!

 

Assuming this is XP, have you checked your event log?

 

Right, didn't think I was this muh of a newbie as I've had a PC since my 486 networked Doom days but..

how do you do that?

 

My apologies..lost track of this thread.

Go into your control panel and click on Administrative Tools > Event Viewer. The main areas to check would be under System & Applications..look for errors & warnings. (Click on Application and/or Security on the left hand side of the window and it will expand the list in the right hand pane.) If you see any indication of a problem just double click on it and it will bring up an information window...you may be able to pin point what is causing the issue and then we can try to help you further if you need it.

Note: Event logging is enabled by default in WinXP so hopefully you didn't turn it off?