VARN Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 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 oldI 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 Ram8GB Ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sy_Accursed Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Sounds like either mobo is dying or the processor/ram is overloading, shorting or overheating. Operation Gold Sparkles :: Chompy Kills :: Full Profound :: Champions :: Barbarian Notes :: Champions Tackle Box :: MA RewardsDragonkin Journals :: Ports Stories :: Elder Chronicles :: Boss Slayer :: Penance King :: Kal'gerion Titles :: Gold Statue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VARN Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 This is the Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor LGA775 Kentsfield 2.40GHl 1066FSB 8MB RetailBox2 of the ram sticks are new How can I test the processor or the motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Is there a lot of dust in your case? It there isn't any dust, then we can rule out overheating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sy_Accursed Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 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. Operation Gold Sparkles :: Chompy Kills :: Full Profound :: Champions :: Barbarian Notes :: Champions Tackle Box :: MA RewardsDragonkin Journals :: Ports Stories :: Elder Chronicles :: Boss Slayer :: Penance King :: Kal'gerion Titles :: Gold Statue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VARN Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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