Schmutz
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My new computer has been great since I built it a few weeks ago but last night started locking while the RAM usage jumped to 100% on the windows sidebar gadget and task manager in Vista64. My Mouse didn't freeze - just the Vista User Interface + any other programs, these freezes lasted from 10-30seconds and rendered my computer unusable. From what I recall there where no significant software changes and this started happening out of the blue
First I tried a system restore to no avail, then I reset my BIOS settings to a safe point before any tweaking (this means I've changed my FSB from 333mhz back to 266mhz, and my RAM from 4-4-4-12 to 5-5-5-15). I had no luck there though... As a last resort I used a different 2gb of RAM (PC5300) and shockingly the freezing still occurred. I tried the Crysis demo using the new RAM and it crashed with a Red screen of death stating MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. At this moment I was clueless, if its a motherboard/PSU/CPU/Hard drive problem I don't have the expertise to fix it.
I removed the PC5300 from my computer and put my RAM back in, and then, like magic the problem disappeared and I haven't experienced it since yesterday. I'm back to square one and the problem seems resolved??? I'm paranoid it'll happen again. Can anyone suggest what caused it in the first place, does this symptom usually relate with anything specific? (550PSU to weak?/Hard drive problems?/CPU stability issues (I was using 333fsb without any voltage change)) I'd have bet it was a hardware failure until everything started working fine again
thanks in advance for support
Schmutz
First I tried a system restore to no avail, then I reset my BIOS settings to a safe point before any tweaking (this means I've changed my FSB from 333mhz back to 266mhz, and my RAM from 4-4-4-12 to 5-5-5-15). I had no luck there though... As a last resort I used a different 2gb of RAM (PC5300) and shockingly the freezing still occurred. I tried the Crysis demo using the new RAM and it crashed with a Red screen of death stating MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. At this moment I was clueless, if its a motherboard/PSU/CPU/Hard drive problem I don't have the expertise to fix it.
I removed the PC5300 from my computer and put my RAM back in, and then, like magic the problem disappeared and I haven't experienced it since yesterday. I'm back to square one and the problem seems resolved??? I'm paranoid it'll happen again. Can anyone suggest what caused it in the first place, does this symptom usually relate with anything specific? (550PSU to weak?/Hard drive problems?/CPU stability issues (I was using 333fsb without any voltage change)) I'd have bet it was a hardware failure until everything started working fine again
thanks in advance for support
Schmutz