Hi there,
My pc is freezing up. The mouse pointer will freeze on the screen for about 30-40 seconds and then its ok again.
I have been troubleshooting for a few days now. I check the task manager performance screen to watch the CPUgraph. It looks fine. It’s display also freezes up when the PC freezes.
Sometimes when I power it up, everything is 100% and never a hiccup. But sometimes it powers up really slowly, and I can tell it is in trouble because the intro music for the windows logo is choppy and the mouse moves very choppy.
When it loads clean, it runs great, games are clean, Far Cry, Call of Duty, etc.
Wierd: at times when it was a clean powerup, I could actually put into trouble by adjusting the screen resolution on the desktop.
Interesting: the hdd led would blink almost in a rythem. 1 sec on/1 sec off for minutes….so I thought it was the hard drive or windows OS
I tried different CPU, no change
Reloaded OS, same problem
changed HD and loaded OS, same problem
Suspected RAM, so i pulled out one stick ran with 512MB and it did it again, but not as often.
I checked the power supply voltage. 12.05-11.70 and 4.73-4.62
specs:
P4 2.8GHz (1MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB)
Asus P4P800SE motherboard
Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
2 sticks of Corsair Twinx (XMS3200) CMX512-3200C2
running in dual channel
CDRW
DVD Burner
floppy etc
350 Watt PS (came with the TurboX case)
ambient temp OK
cpu temp 33c
mob temp 30c
ambient temp 27c
any ideas
ps, allready ran memtest86 on the ram..passed