After a certain amount of time - and that time used to be a lot quicker if I had the screen saver on for any length of time - the computer will start to stop and start. What I mean by that is that it'll freeze for a minute or so and then "come back". And it'll do that about every five minutes or so until I restart the computer. Since turning off the screen saver, I left the machine on overnight and came back this morning to be able to work on it just fine ... until a few minutes about (about 10 am) when it started that stopping and starting behavior.
System
20" ACER AL2002W LCD 1680 x 1050 60 Hz
Asus M2A - VM X1250 onboard graphics not the HDMI version
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ (65W) Dual core socket AM2 2.2Ghz, 512 KB x2 L2 cache
Mushkin HP2-6400 DDR2-800 High Performance Series 2 x 1GB sticks
Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA HD 7200rpm
Hauppauge WinTV GO-PLus NTSC 44981 REV E199 TV tuner (the one with the mushkin ram)
LG GH20NS10 Black SATA DVD-Writer 20x
350 watt power supply 20/24pins Model number IP-S350AQ2-0 made by POWER MAN
- Increased the voltage to the ram to 2.1 volts that solved the ram problems i had.
(would crash everytime i ran memtest86 or any memory test software)
- Replaced the motherboard on the system to eliminate a problem with the on board video or the dvi port.
- Used different ram on the system to make sure it wasn't the ocz ram which is it has mushkin (prior to that it had OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 800mhz Platinum XTC Revision 2 2 x 1GB sticks.)
Changed to the vga cable.
The problem with me trying to troubleshoot this is that after a restart it runs fine for 7 to 8 hours maybe more, so i have to make a change and sit there waiting for 7 or 8 hours which i don't have the time to do.
I am wondering if this could be a power problem, but the power supply is running fine and everything on this computer shouldn't take 350 watts unless i overlooked something. Also if anyone has any ideas on how i could make this problem occur quicker like software or something that would be really helpful to.
Any help would be appreciated
System
20" ACER AL2002W LCD 1680 x 1050 60 Hz
Asus M2A - VM X1250 onboard graphics not the HDMI version
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ (65W) Dual core socket AM2 2.2Ghz, 512 KB x2 L2 cache
Mushkin HP2-6400 DDR2-800 High Performance Series 2 x 1GB sticks
Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA HD 7200rpm
Hauppauge WinTV GO-PLus NTSC 44981 REV E199 TV tuner (the one with the mushkin ram)
LG GH20NS10 Black SATA DVD-Writer 20x
350 watt power supply 20/24pins Model number IP-S350AQ2-0 made by POWER MAN
- Increased the voltage to the ram to 2.1 volts that solved the ram problems i had.
(would crash everytime i ran memtest86 or any memory test software)
- Replaced the motherboard on the system to eliminate a problem with the on board video or the dvi port.
- Used different ram on the system to make sure it wasn't the ocz ram which is it has mushkin (prior to that it had OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 800mhz Platinum XTC Revision 2 2 x 1GB sticks.)
Changed to the vga cable.
The problem with me trying to troubleshoot this is that after a restart it runs fine for 7 to 8 hours maybe more, so i have to make a change and sit there waiting for 7 or 8 hours which i don't have the time to do.
I am wondering if this could be a power problem, but the power supply is running fine and everything on this computer shouldn't take 350 watts unless i overlooked something. Also if anyone has any ideas on how i could make this problem occur quicker like software or something that would be really helpful to.
Any help would be appreciated
