New Rig is crashing, help appreciated

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RideTheSpiral462

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I just finished hooking up my new PC last night (installed a Gigabyte SLI-Pro Mo-bo, an gForce 6800GT PCI express, 1G single stick corsiar DDR400, and an AMD 64, 3700 san deigo)...the rest of the parts are salvaged from my old rig (2 WD HD's, 2 CD drives)

I bought a crappy case/power supply last night since I realized my old case couldn't hold the new mobo. The Pwr supply is 430 watts.

Anyway I installed a copy of XP Home I had from my old gateway (for some reason windows would not boot my old OS (XP Pro) with the new configuration.

After installing drivers and everything my computer crashes every 10-30 minutes (The screen freezes no BSOD or anything just looks like I was viewing a screenshot of my desktop)

At first I thought it was a virus cause I let it on teh network before getting my firewall up (had to DL one) and even though I did get some BS virus in those 10 minutes I did reformat and its still doing it after format even though it has not yet been connected to the internet.

FYI - bios shows my CPU running at 33C but everest (hardware monitoring program) shows it at 70C which is hot enough to crash teh machine. The fan however is putting out cool air and the heatsink is cool to the touch.

Also it was fine all 3 times I reinstalled windows (no crashes) it only crashes once windows is running.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,
Chris
 
hi

are you getting any error messages at all??? Does it crash when you open a specific program, or when you play games, or does it just crash randomly?
 
JimBowen said:
hi

are you getting any error messages at all??? Does it crash when you open a specific program, or when you play games, or does it just crash randomly?

It could possibly be a power problem
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Yeah with a rig like that get a decent PSU, my rig (even thought not that good) was crashing and freezing like yours is a while back, got a new PSU and I've had like 1 crash so far (loaded too many apps and PC froze :O) *touchwood*
Look for a PSU from the likes of Antec, Enermax, Tagan, ThermalTake
 
Matt555 said:
Yeah with a rig like that get a decent PSU, my rig (even thought not that good) was crashing and freezing like yours is a while back, got a new PSU and I've had like 1 crash so far (loaded too many apps and PC froze :O) *touchwood*
Look for a PSU from the likes of Antec, Enermax, Tagan, ThermalTake
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Yeah the power supply I got is a POS and I don't expect it to last but I figured it would run ok for a little while. I dunno, I'm broke now to boot... but why wouldn't the PC crash at all when I was installing and repair installing windows if it was the power supply? (it ran a total of a good hour and a half accross 3 installs)

And yeah no error messages whatsoever the screen just freezes up and I have to manually power down.
(when I try to load my old copy of windows (which is still looking for my old hardware I get a BSOD but it flashes so fast I can't read it, but I don't expect to ever get that installation running again)

As for when it crashes it seems to be random, although it usaully happens when I do something heres an appended list of crashes
2 or 3 almost instantly after opening IE (yeah I know IE sucks but firefox was crashing so I tried)
at least 5-6 running Firefox trying to download a WoW patch
3 or so installing drivers and various apps (I had to install drivers twice, once after the initial format and then again for the second format (with a repair install inbetween)
1 trying to run itunes
1 watching zone alarm block stuff after the first install was promptly infected by a virus that brought up an arabic website everytime I used firefox
 
Yeah that freezing sucks, just out of nowhere it stops, no warning, just frozen, like you said like a screenshot...
 
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