Random computer crashing

Mitchell Brown mbgb14 at gmail.com
Wed May 10 16:21:04 UTC 2006


Thanks - as I said on the other list that I sent this to -- I ran memtest86
for an entire night and no errors found. I also ran a CPU stress test for a
few hours with no sign of overheating-failure.

On 5/10/06, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> I once had a faulty memory module which caused crashing in the same place
> doing the same thing. This could happen since when windows loads up at
> this
> point it encounters the faulty memory area and then crashes, but enough
> stuff
> has to fill the ram until it reaches the bad part... if you see what i
> mean.
> cheers
> gabe
>
> On Tuesday 09 May 2006 14:18, Mitchell Brown wrote:
> > Thanks, I'll try this - I just put in my ultimate boot cd now and it's
> > running memtest86. Then, after that, in the morning, I'll check out pc
> > health in the bios. I was in there earlier and tried loading both the
> > failsafe defaults and the optimized defaults - obviously, to no avail.
> And
> > yes, I did pull the case out yesterday to plug something in. Hmm. Maybe
> I
> > bumped something loose. I'll check into it!
> >
> > Still though, mighty peculiar to be happening in one specific spot :S
> >
> > On 5/9/06, Simon Edwards <simon at simonzone.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 09 May 2006 07:07, Mitchell Brown wrote:
> > > > Well, now, here I am at the machine, and all of a sudden, it croaks,
> > > > and dies again!
> > >
> > > It sounds like a hardware problem. The first thing I would do is run a
> > > memory
> > > check ( http://www.memtest86.com/ ) to make sure that all of the RAM
> is
> > > not
> > > faulty.
> > >
> > > And then I would then turn my attention to the power supply. Check the
> > > different voltages are correct (3.3v, 12v etc). You can usually look
> this
> > > up
> > > in the BIOS screen (under "PC Health"). If the voltages reported there
> > > differ
> > > by more than 5% from what they are meant to be, then you might have a
> > > problem. While you are there, it is also worth check the temperatures
> > > too.
> > >
> > > I had crashes on a machine last weekend. Turned out that the 3.3v was
> > > only running at ~2.75v, way below spec. I replaced the PSU. It is now
> > > good again.
> > >
> > > If you have been working on the machine, or have moved it recently,
> then
> > > you
> > > could also open the machine and re-seat the cards and connectors to
> make
> > > sure
> > > that they are correctly inserted.
> > >
> > > If you are still having problems, find some kind of stress test
> program
> > > (so
> > > that you can test and crash the mahcine quickly), and then remove
> cards
> > > and
> > > hardware until the machine is stable.
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > > --
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> > > simon at simonzone.com | http://www.simonzone.com/software/
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