Hi-
i have been having this problem for the last month, trying to narrow down what is wrong wiht my computer.
Computer crashes while doing just normal activites, nothing specific to be able to point to a single thing that is making the computer crash.
The computer does not give any errors or blue screens, just keyboard freezes and eventually mouse stops moving.
Originally thought it was graphics card, so replaced it with known working graphics card, and I thought i fixed the problem, but it turns out now it just crashes less often. So therefore it is somewhat the graphics card, which I'm getting a new one of, but there is more to the problem.
I have pulled all the cards but the graphics card interchangably and computer still crashes. Also swapped both sticks of ram (not too much of a chance that I have to bad sticks of ram) so it dosent look to be the ram.
So my only thought left is that it is the motherboard or perhaps the cpu
Please give me some input on this. I really need my computer working again!
thanks
Brian
Oh one other thing i forgot to mention, my hard drive (IBM) has known bad sectors on it from an IBM test utitlity, but with an FDISK and proper format that should negate the fact that their are a few bad sectors on the hard drive because it pushes them to the end and dosent use them. But drive does format and work fine.
System:
Abit KT7A motherboard
amd 1.2 ghz tbird
512mb pc133 cas 2 ram
64mb ati radeon DDR VIVO graphics card
Soundblaster Live! 5.1
3com 3c905c network card
40gb IBM 70gxp ata100 hd
16x pioneer dvd
16x10x40 Plextor cdrw
i have been having this problem for the last month, trying to narrow down what is wrong wiht my computer.
Computer crashes while doing just normal activites, nothing specific to be able to point to a single thing that is making the computer crash.
The computer does not give any errors or blue screens, just keyboard freezes and eventually mouse stops moving.
Originally thought it was graphics card, so replaced it with known working graphics card, and I thought i fixed the problem, but it turns out now it just crashes less often. So therefore it is somewhat the graphics card, which I'm getting a new one of, but there is more to the problem.
I have pulled all the cards but the graphics card interchangably and computer still crashes. Also swapped both sticks of ram (not too much of a chance that I have to bad sticks of ram) so it dosent look to be the ram.
So my only thought left is that it is the motherboard or perhaps the cpu
Please give me some input on this. I really need my computer working again!
thanks
Brian
Oh one other thing i forgot to mention, my hard drive (IBM) has known bad sectors on it from an IBM test utitlity, but with an FDISK and proper format that should negate the fact that their are a few bad sectors on the hard drive because it pushes them to the end and dosent use them. But drive does format and work fine.
System:
Abit KT7A motherboard
amd 1.2 ghz tbird
512mb pc133 cas 2 ram
64mb ati radeon DDR VIVO graphics card
Soundblaster Live! 5.1
3com 3c905c network card
40gb IBM 70gxp ata100 hd
16x pioneer dvd
16x10x40 Plextor cdrw