1. Those that measure the temperatures forget that such is only what they measure. Remove the case cover, dust off the heatsinks, power up and make sure the fans are running proper. Leave the cover off. If the lockups cease then you have some part/component that has become heat sensitive.
2. Try it with one stick of RAM. Some machines have BIOS limits that the BIOS does not slow down the memory as you add more sticks. So far the attitude is that if you build your own then you know to slow it down if you fill all the slots. I see no indication this attitude will change. Why should it?
Bob
So here is the deal. I moved home from college and had my computer set up and was on consistenly for about 4.5 months, without ever shutting off. It worked great no problems. I just moved into an apartment, i made no changes to my computer, and now it randomly freezes after like a couple hours oh use. No blue screen or reboot, just freezes. I have no clue what is wrong. I have windows xp SP2, i updated the bios and tha didn't fix it. I tried booting up in safe mode a couple times and that didn't fix it, i played around in the bios and changed some settings around and that didn't fix it. I'm not sure if its overheating of what. CPU temp is about 45C and the chassis temp is about like 32C, as what my bios says. I am lost. Not sure if its hardware, software, or waht. The only thing i can think is maybe the outlet is bad taht my computer is plugged into but i mean everything else works fine thats plugged into it so. Any advice would be great. I'm thinking of buying a surger protector and trying that out and maybe buying a new power supply and see if taht makes a difference. I have a P4 2.40B Ghz machine with 1.5 gigs of PC2700 DDR RAM, and ATI AIW 8900DV video card, Soundblaster Audigy, USB2 card, 4 hard drives, a SOYO Dragon Lite motherboard. I had this exact setup at home and it worked fine. So please someone help me!!!!!!
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