Strange PC Crash Ok a fairly recent PC of mine keeps randomly crashing... Strange thing is theres no error messages, no BSOD, nothing in the event logs and appears to be no pattern as to when it happens... Basically the PC just stops, no beeps, sounds of anything shutting down and whatever was on the screen gets mashed up into a series of lines.... difficult to explain so have attached a pic. Only thing I can do is restart it which it does ok. no system recovery messages or anything... Anyone come across anything similar??
Re: Strange PC Crash That sounds like something that would happen to me! Also, I don't know what could be causing it. maybe something to do with the video card?
It could be anything in my eyes. I've had similar problems in the past where a new motherboard has fixed stuff but it was pure luck that I diagnosed the problem. Do you not have compatible parts in another pc that you could swap to see if it still happens?
has it done this since u got it? have you installed owt like new hardware? if you have check the irq's, even tho its onboard video check for new drivers.
Its done it since i upgraded it yes a while back to the processor above, new MB and more RAM... So im guessing ive got a 1 in 3 chance
what operating system u running and how much and what type of ram did your system have and what has it got now?
XP and it had 512mb so i upped it to 1gb. 2x512mb Kingston Everest displays it as - 960 MB (DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM)
is it the exact same ram? have you tweaked the ram in any way? try it with the original ram in and see if it still does it
Had a new motherboard too so no its not same RAM as before.... (previously 2 sticks of 256 i think). I just went by what the motherboard accepted. I've not tweaked anything just plugged it in and that was it. I've got a spare video card knocking about somewhere so will stick that in and see if it makes a difference... The odd thing is... I can be on the PC all night and it wont 'crash' but i could start it up in a morning and it might do it 2/3 times in space of half hour
i always put flakyness stuff like this down to memory... isn't there a memory checker you can get that checks all the banks?
download memtest86, burn it to cd and boot your machine off it. Run the full test and see if it comes up with any errors.
that narrows it down to CPU or GPU then. how do they look in everest? are they running hot? I've seen stuff like this before with heat issues.
