Hi, I bought this PC about 1 1/2 year ago and never had any problems with it until recently.
I started having blue screen whenever I was playing games (mostly Guildwars and World of Warcraft). I got blue screens only once I played the game for a long time. But now I get the blue screen more and more often, even when I'm just surfing on the web. I can't do anything with it anymore. It boots in Windows and it can stay on for a long time but as soon as I start doing something like surfing the web, burning a cd or playing a game, I get the Machine check exception error. Its always the same error and comes up pretty much randomly, sometimes its at start up, sometimes it takes a while.
Pentium D Dual Core 3.2 Ghz
Asus P5N32-Sli Deluxe Mobo
1Gb DDR 2 Ram
NVidia GeForce 6800GS
560W Thermaltake PSU
Windows XP SP2 Home edition
I tried all of these things:
- All my fans (3 fans + Cpu fan + Video card fan + 2 PSU fans) are working.
- Temperature is ok, even tried putting a regular home fan as close as possible to the video card to get lower temperature and still got the error.
- Ran Memtest for about 2 hours and rams are ok, even tried different rams and still got the error.
- Checked for errors on my HD and found none.
- Installed all the latest drivers but it didnt work. Then I reformated my HD.
I noticed one bad capacitor on my mobo right next to my CPU. Maybe that might be the problem?
I am new with this but I got someone helping me. Do you guys have an idea on what I can do next to fix this damn error!
I started having blue screen whenever I was playing games (mostly Guildwars and World of Warcraft). I got blue screens only once I played the game for a long time. But now I get the blue screen more and more often, even when I'm just surfing on the web. I can't do anything with it anymore. It boots in Windows and it can stay on for a long time but as soon as I start doing something like surfing the web, burning a cd or playing a game, I get the Machine check exception error. Its always the same error and comes up pretty much randomly, sometimes its at start up, sometimes it takes a while.
Pentium D Dual Core 3.2 Ghz
Asus P5N32-Sli Deluxe Mobo
1Gb DDR 2 Ram
NVidia GeForce 6800GS
560W Thermaltake PSU
Windows XP SP2 Home edition
I tried all of these things:
- All my fans (3 fans + Cpu fan + Video card fan + 2 PSU fans) are working.
- Temperature is ok, even tried putting a regular home fan as close as possible to the video card to get lower temperature and still got the error.
- Ran Memtest for about 2 hours and rams are ok, even tried different rams and still got the error.
- Checked for errors on my HD and found none.
- Installed all the latest drivers but it didnt work. Then I reformated my HD.
I noticed one bad capacitor on my mobo right next to my CPU. Maybe that might be the problem?
I am new with this but I got someone helping me. Do you guys have an idea on what I can do next to fix this damn error!
