Hey all, I have a serious problem with my computer which I cannot fix, which is slightly embarrassing as I support end users also with their hardware.
First problems arose a good month ago, when I left my computer on as so many times before when I went to the gym, and came back to find it in hibernation. It wouldn’t wake up, so I rebooted. I didn’t get any visual, though I heard it booting. Now it seems I have 2 ports on my graphics adapter, and only one of them works. I then got the visual back, but when working longer than 5 or 10 minutes, the computer froze. No blue screen, no black screen, no event log, simply freezing. The lights on my keyboard also went out, leading me to suspect it was a power problem.
So I took the computer back to the store, and they fixed it for me. I was hoping they’d replace the PSU (if that was problem), because that was the only part still in guarantee. However, they didn’t replace anything, they overclocked my machine. Specifically, they set the DRAM timing in my BIOS on manual, all with the default values. I looked into the manual of my motherboard (ASUS PQ5), but it isn’t very informative.
What scared me most was they didn’t connect the PSU fan to the motherboard. When I did, I noticed in the BIOS it would be marked in red, giving around 500 RPM, unlike the others, who were at 2000 RPM and not marked in red.
Now the pc ran fin a couple of days, but I have games frequently crashing, and most notably my display adapter drivers crashing a lot, and the problem is getting more and more frequent.
List of components:
– ASUS P5Q motherboard
– Intel Dual Core processor (2*3 Ghz)
– Nvidia GForce GX2
– 4 Gig Corsair RAM DDR2
What component do you guys think is causing this trouble? I have not really access to spare parts, and I don’t want to go to the stores (it’s a long and thus expensive trip) unless I’m more or less certain.
Only the PSU is under guarantee, anything else I’d have to buy again, which I don’t want to do unless I’m also pretty sure. Could it be the memory? I wouldn’t mind buying that again, it’s rather cheap, and an excuse to get me some DDR3. I hope it’s not the graphics adapter, that would cost me as much as a week holiday.
