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ravenhex
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Ok looks like the wife's pc is having some problems. Her PC within the past 3 months has been hard locking at random. Doesnt matter if she's playing WoW, doing a power point show for her school or surfing the interwebz. Another piece of the puzzle is that 2-3 times a week the system will just shutdown with out notice or BSOD screen. First thought was heating issue but under load she runs at 42-45 Cel. so I dont think that's the issue. Her spec's are MSI K8n Neo 4 plat. mobo, nvidia 7950gt, 4 gig's of corsair mem. 120 gig hard drive and a Aethna 520 watt psu, AMD 3200 processor.
I know it could be a psu problem but was trying to find other possible causes. I have reseated everything in the tower, ran a memtest over night with no bad sectors, blown the tower out with air, opened the psu up to clean out and check for damage. I could still change out her video card and try to see if that help's with the issue.
Any advice from all you uber tech's out there? Much thanks.
I know it could be a psu problem but was trying to find other possible causes. I have reseated everything in the tower, ran a memtest over night with no bad sectors, blown the tower out with air, opened the psu up to clean out and check for damage. I could still change out her video card and try to see if that help's with the issue.
Any advice from all you uber tech's out there? Much thanks.
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I'd like to offer more advise, but not sure if you've ran any spy ware/virus programs...checked for bad registry values? In any case, regardless of the problem I've always enjoyed a good ol' reformat myself
edit: current voltages, and how much secondary storage available