Dear Community,
The System that i have built boot perfect however will experience random freezes in windows. There's no pattern to the freezes, it will sometimes freeze within 5 mins - 20mins and if i'm lucky enough, it can last a few hours without freezing.
The freeze can occure while i'm surfing the internet, typing a word document and frequently by just leaving it idle. Dispite the remedy actions i've done the problem still exist. I'm so frustrated
please advise.
Remedy Actions:
■Initially i'm using a budget PSU thought it might be faulty hence I replaced it with a more stable Antec 350W PSU.
■Because the motherboard only support up to DDR2 533MHZ, thought there might be some competibility issue so I replace the 667MHZ ram to 533MHZ ram
■Have read some articles saying that if chasis is not grounded properly might cause stability problem hence I Change the chasis of my system to CoolerMaster 330 Elite.
I have run the following test and results are fine.
■memtest86 - No Errors reported after 6 hours of testing
■speedfan - Temperature check at load is nominal
■Scandisk - No errors reported
I'm now suspecting that the motherbaord might be the root problem to the random freezes.
SYSTEM INFOMATION by EVEREST.
BIOS Properties:
Vendor American Megatrends Inc.
Version 0311
Motherboard Properties:
Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Product P5GC-MX
Chassis Properties:
Manufacturer ASUSTek Computer INC.
Version Rev 1.xx
Serial Number Ch-12345678
Asset Tag Asset-1234567890
Chassis Type Desktop Case
Chassis Lock Present
Boot-Up State Safe
Power Supply State Safe
Thermal State Safe
Processor Properties:
Manufacturer Intel
Version Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz
External Clock 200 MHz
Maximum Clock 3800 MHz
Current Clock 1600 MHz
Type Central Processor
Voltage 1.4 V
Display:
Video Adapter Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family (128 MB)
3D Accelerator Intel GMA 950
Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C0
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive SAMSUNG HD080HJ (80 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Optical Drive TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223B
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 29988 MB (22739 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 46320 MB (45879 MB free)
Total Size 74.5 GB (67.0 GB free)
Network:
Network Adapter Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-T Controller (192.168.1.68)
The System that i have built boot perfect however will experience random freezes in windows. There's no pattern to the freezes, it will sometimes freeze within 5 mins - 20mins and if i'm lucky enough, it can last a few hours without freezing.
The freeze can occure while i'm surfing the internet, typing a word document and frequently by just leaving it idle. Dispite the remedy actions i've done the problem still exist. I'm so frustrated
please advise.Remedy Actions:
■Initially i'm using a budget PSU thought it might be faulty hence I replaced it with a more stable Antec 350W PSU.
■Because the motherboard only support up to DDR2 533MHZ, thought there might be some competibility issue so I replace the 667MHZ ram to 533MHZ ram
■Have read some articles saying that if chasis is not grounded properly might cause stability problem hence I Change the chasis of my system to CoolerMaster 330 Elite.
I have run the following test and results are fine.
■memtest86 - No Errors reported after 6 hours of testing
■speedfan - Temperature check at load is nominal
■Scandisk - No errors reported
I'm now suspecting that the motherbaord might be the root problem to the random freezes.
SYSTEM INFOMATION by EVEREST.
BIOS Properties:
Vendor American Megatrends Inc.
Version 0311
Motherboard Properties:
Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Product P5GC-MX
Chassis Properties:
Manufacturer ASUSTek Computer INC.
Version Rev 1.xx
Serial Number Ch-12345678
Asset Tag Asset-1234567890
Chassis Type Desktop Case
Chassis Lock Present
Boot-Up State Safe
Power Supply State Safe
Thermal State Safe
Processor Properties:
Manufacturer Intel
Version Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz
External Clock 200 MHz
Maximum Clock 3800 MHz
Current Clock 1600 MHz
Type Central Processor
Voltage 1.4 V
Display:
Video Adapter Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family (128 MB)
3D Accelerator Intel GMA 950
Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C0
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive SAMSUNG HD080HJ (80 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Optical Drive TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223B
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 29988 MB (22739 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 46320 MB (45879 MB free)
Total Size 74.5 GB (67.0 GB free)
Network:
Network Adapter Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-T Controller (192.168.1.68)
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