AMD 64 X2 5000 Freezing, pls help!!

Rafael Mestdag

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Mar 25, 2014
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ freezing constantly(it's kind of random but every time I try to run a (light)racing game it freezes soon after)

It has 2 512Mb sticks of DDR2 RAM and a 160Gb IDE HDD.

As for graphics, it's got an nVidia 6200 128Mb.

It's on stock speed and its Power Unit has 300W.

I use it mostly for watching movies from an external 1TB hdd so nothing special, the RAM meter(gadget) rarely goes
over 80% so I'm starting to think it's got something to do with the Power Unit.

I'm using Windows 7 Home Basic(32bit) by the way.


If anyone has any suggestions, pls let me know, thx in advance!
 

drkatz42

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Make sure all of your drivers are up to date. Give all of your case fans, PSU, GPU, and CPU HSF a good cleaning as overheating can certainly cause issues. Checked for malware and viruses?