Sometimes my computer will just stop, the screen will freeze and the clock on my keyboard will ether stop or the seconds will pass very slowly (10 sec for 1 sec to pass); sometimes while this happens, the monitor goes black and stops receiving a signal. Each time this happens I must press the reset button. The two most recent times I was playing runescape and decided to watch a video the other time I was just playing runescape.

 

The system is 4 years old

I am running Vista x64

 

Video card: BFG GeForce 8800GTS OC2 580MHl 320MB 1.7GHz GDDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDTV HDCP

 

Motherboard: ASUS P5N32-E SLI Nforce 6801 SLI LGA775 Conroe ATX DDR2 2PCI-E16 PCI-E1 2PCI SATA2 RAID

 

4GB Ram

8GB Ram

Sounds like either mobo is dying or the processor/ram is overloading, shorting or overheating.

This is the Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor LGA775 Kentsfield 2.40GHl 1066FSB 8MB Retail

Box

2 of the ram sticks are new

 

How can I test the processor or the motherboard?

Is there a lot of dust in your case? It there isn't any dust, then we can rule out overheating.

Is there a lot of dust in your case? It there isn't any dust, then we can rule out overheating.

Not always true.

What about failing heatsink fans?

Failing case fans?

Processors that are going wrong and produce epic amounts of heat from being on perma full load?

 

etc.

Is there a lot of dust in your case? It there isn't any dust, then we can rule out overheating.

Not always true.

What about failing heatsink fans?

Failing case fans?

Processors that are going wrong and produce epic amounts of heat from being on perma full load?

 

etc.

 

I was just saying that because most of the time clearing the dust clears the problem.

Cleaned out the dust (what little there was) the problem persists. I was playing runescape, I played a video, went back to runescape; after a few minutes everything stopped and I had to reset.