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sy69

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my pc keeps crashing could be when im burning discs d/l stuff,or on the internet,or anytime
sometimes it freezes sometimes the screen just goes black or it reboots itself,it does freeze when booting up aswell.i read on a forum about a guy who had same trouble he increased the core voltage on the cpu i tryed that it didnt work,after a few increases the pc was very unstable so went back to original voltage.these are the components of my pc if it helps

amd fx53 chip
abit av8 3rd eye mobo
x800xt graphics card(powercolor)
2x512mb ddr400 dual channel unregistered memory

anybody any ideas,thanks in advance.
 
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could any number of things/

the components are not really owt to go by

alot of crashes are caused by programs conflicting with each other

what programs have you running?
 
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Just an idea...

try leaving the side of your case off to let more air in. Its possible your PC is running hot as I've had similar probs in the past due to the temp

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My computer run really hot all the time. To cure it i got the latest bois upgrade for my motherboard. You can get a program to flash the bios for you an upgrade it in windows but be very very careful.
 
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ive taken side of the tower to start of with i will list all programs on pc soon,didnt really want to be flashing bios dont want to mess things up totally,.
 
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Those symptoms sound like either a ram, power supply or cpu overheating problem, restart your PC & press delete to get into the bios.
Once in find the page that lists your temps & voltages, leave it a minute or two then make a note of the cpu temp, if its high (60c+) perhaps you should buy a decent heatsink/fan (your pc is a beast & deserves a good one).
If the temps are ok then I would say its prob faulty ram or an overstressed power supply, firstly download memtest86 & put it on a floppy or cd & reboot & run it (auto runs from dos) it takes a while to complete fully but if after half hour or so it hasnt produced any errors your ram is prob ok, however if it gives even one error then remove a stick of ram & re-run the test to see which stick of the ram is causing the problem & replace as needed.
If it passes the test then what is your power supply make & power rating?
If its a cheap or underpowered one then you should try to borrow a decent high powered replacement & see if it solves the problem.
I'm not completely sure what the problem is though as freezing tends to point to bad ram but rebooting could be ram or cpu.

http://www.memtest86.com/
 
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taking the side of the tower off seems to have fixed my problem my cpu idles at about 49c so that seems ok,i am still going to try the memory testsee what results i get.thanks for your help. :thumbsup:
 
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Just had a load of trouble with an asus M/B and Ati stonking graphics card, and we fixed it by turning off AGP8x down to 4x and changing AGP voltage to 1.7v.
Also we had to add some extra cooling and take off the side panel.

Its worth a try, otherwise give it a format and hope 4 best :crazy:
 
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turpieaj said:
Apart from overheating or faulty cpu/ram you could put the whole down to something as daft as faulty/corrupt device driver. Have you tried updating all your drivers?


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about 20 mins after i posted everything was working fine pc crashed again when it rebooted windows reported it had recovered from a serious problem or summat,so i sent the report of and it came back with a driver problem,ffs.
 


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