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- Feb 2, 2005
- Location
- Alberta, Canada
Hello!
Thanks for taking a look at this thread. I've gotten very little help so far and have had to take this computer to the store where I bought it three times to have them look at it.
The system:
Motherboard: Asus P5Q3 Deluxe WiFI-n
Processor: Intel Quad Core Q9450 2.6gHz
Ram: 4Gb Patriot (2x 2gb) DDR3 1333Mhz 9-9-9-20
Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD4870
Audio: Creative Soundblaster Fatal1ty Platinum
PSU: Corsair TH750W
Storage: 2x 150Gb Raptor 10000RPM in Raid0
The neverending problem:
I bought this computer in the summer and have posted here before about this issue but it has not been resolved. I had problems with the computer crashing all the time on games and even when running things like firefox. The screen would freeze with whatever picture was being displayed and the keyboard and mouse would be non responsive. The speakers I have attached to this system would start screeching as though I was playing audio but someone stopped the playback in the middle of a high pitch sound and kept playing that. The only way to get the system running again was to restart.
I ran some stability tests and had varying results. I tested the 3 rails on my psu and all were running within normal parameters. Stress tests on my ram (Memtest86+) and cpu (Prime95) gave weird results. In the end I took my computer into the store where I bought the parts and asked them to fix the problem. They did the same tests I did and concluded the motherboard was flawed and had a manufactures defect. So I got a brand new motherboard of the same brand and model.
The system was running fine until one day it started freezing again. The original ram I had in this computer was OCZ ram of the same speed and amount as the new Patriot ram. I took it to the store a second time and asked for new ram because I thought that that could be the problem. (memtest86 was failing)
They replaced OCZ with Patriot. I got the computer back and it still kept freezing so I untinstalled Vista and formatted. I now have a clean copy of Vista Home Premium 64bit and I am still freezing occasionally. The times when it freezes are random but I have had more freezes when I run video from a cd or a streaming video on the internet. But thats not to say the system wont crash just sitting idle not running anything.
I welcome any and all opinions as well as advice for fixing this bugger.
Thanks to all who post.
Eichhorn18
Thanks for taking a look at this thread. I've gotten very little help so far and have had to take this computer to the store where I bought it three times to have them look at it.
The system:
Motherboard: Asus P5Q3 Deluxe WiFI-n
Processor: Intel Quad Core Q9450 2.6gHz
Ram: 4Gb Patriot (2x 2gb) DDR3 1333Mhz 9-9-9-20
Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD4870
Audio: Creative Soundblaster Fatal1ty Platinum
PSU: Corsair TH750W
Storage: 2x 150Gb Raptor 10000RPM in Raid0
The neverending problem:
I bought this computer in the summer and have posted here before about this issue but it has not been resolved. I had problems with the computer crashing all the time on games and even when running things like firefox. The screen would freeze with whatever picture was being displayed and the keyboard and mouse would be non responsive. The speakers I have attached to this system would start screeching as though I was playing audio but someone stopped the playback in the middle of a high pitch sound and kept playing that. The only way to get the system running again was to restart.
I ran some stability tests and had varying results. I tested the 3 rails on my psu and all were running within normal parameters. Stress tests on my ram (Memtest86+) and cpu (Prime95) gave weird results. In the end I took my computer into the store where I bought the parts and asked them to fix the problem. They did the same tests I did and concluded the motherboard was flawed and had a manufactures defect. So I got a brand new motherboard of the same brand and model.
The system was running fine until one day it started freezing again. The original ram I had in this computer was OCZ ram of the same speed and amount as the new Patriot ram. I took it to the store a second time and asked for new ram because I thought that that could be the problem. (memtest86 was failing)
They replaced OCZ with Patriot. I got the computer back and it still kept freezing so I untinstalled Vista and formatted. I now have a clean copy of Vista Home Premium 64bit and I am still freezing occasionally. The times when it freezes are random but I have had more freezes when I run video from a cd or a streaming video on the internet. But thats not to say the system wont crash just sitting idle not running anything.
I welcome any and all opinions as well as advice for fixing this bugger.
Thanks to all who post.
Eichhorn18