System hang - tough one.

[speedy742j]

I get the following screen appear every 3-4 days.

Anyone have any ideas?

Motherboard: gigabyte ep45-ud3r
Ram: Gskill 4gb ddr2 (passed memtest+86 for 6 hours)
Raid 0 array.
Vistax32.
Cpu: Q6600
GPU: EVGA 9800GTX
PSU: Corsair

System runs Prime95 for 24 hours with no errors.

 

[Mondoman]

Is the computer running continuously for those 4 days, or does it get turned on/off during that time? If the former, it could be just "normal" glitches in the OS accumulating to the point where the system crashes.

 

[o1die]

Your video chipset may be overheating; some of the heatsinks are pretty small. I would add a fan if possible or better heatsink on your video card.

 

[speedy742j]

nope - system gets turned off when I am not using it, that's why it is strange.

I have an Antec 900 case - four fans inside it, one fan on the GPU too. Temp inside box is low too - about 35 degrees C.

Think it could just be a faulty graphic card?

Thanks.

 

[roadrunner197069]

Bad GPU, or monitor.

 

[Zorg]

Agreed, probably the VGA. First, verify the temps with the EVGA precision Utility (it's under the Graphics cards category, obviously), although it's probably not it overheating.

Get a really cheap Nvidia VGA and run it for a weak or two. If your problem goes away you have your answer. Keep the cheap card for future testing purposes.

 

[speedy742j]

Thanks guys.

I've been running the EVGA utility while gaming (Flight Simulator) - the only game I play - and the temps rarely get about 40. From a search it seems they are ok to reach 70-100.

This ok?

 

[Zorg]

I don't know about Flight Simulator specifically, but 40C seems low under load. Try checking temps while running FurMark. I can't remember who posted it originally, but it works well.

 

[speedy742j]

Yeah, I am told that Flight Simulator is heavy on CPU power and hardly uses any GPU power.

I run the EVGA demo on it and I could get the temps up to 55-57 but that was as high as I could go and still no crash.

I can't think what else would cuase this aside from the gpu?
Thank you for writing back. Any other ideas?