Hello,
Its my first time consulting a forum such as this to troubleshoot a problem, so feel free to notify me if I'm not using correct protocol.
I've consulted many, many threads on this website and others concerning my problem, but it seems like a "freezing computer" problem is very subjective to individual machines, so here goes.
My brother, who has built many PC's for himself and for me over the years, just finished a new one for me a week ago. After a few days it has started completely freezing (no mouse, keyboard, or C-A-D). This usually happens anywhere between 30 - 120 minutes of use. The screen abruptly freezes up, and any audio playing immediately turns into a horrible screeching sound.
This has occurred while playing a very demanding computer game, but also while watching video using VLC media player, while viewing internet pages, and also several times while transferring video files form my USB connected external hard drive to the new internal hard drive. I have to manually turn off the computer, and when I turn it back on again, its like nothing even happened. No error messages, no memory dump or blue screen, no "your system has recovered from a fatal error" or whatever, and no mention of the crash in the events log or device manager.
I'm running Windows XP SP3, and the following components were all purchased new either on Newegg.com or at BestBuy. I have updated all video drivers off nvidia.com for the graphics card.
AMD Phenom X3 720 2.8GHz Triple-core
MSI 770-C45 Motherboard
Crucial 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM (2x 2GB)
BFG GeForce GTX 260 896MB PCI Express graphics card
Corsair CMPSU 850W Crossfire Ready Active PFC Power Supply
Western Digital 1Terabyte Hard Drive (SATA)
I have a 100GB Seagate External Hard Drive Connected via USB, as well as a Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard connected via USB.
My Case is a Cooler Master HAF ("high-air-flow") Full Tower Case with 1 x 140mm rear fan, and 3 x 230mm fans. All fans are functional, and this beast practically cools my whole room.
Both my brother and myself are at a loss as to what this problem could be, and I'm nervous that I'll have to start sending parts back to Newegg one at a time until I find the culprit Please help!
Its my first time consulting a forum such as this to troubleshoot a problem, so feel free to notify me if I'm not using correct protocol.
I've consulted many, many threads on this website and others concerning my problem, but it seems like a "freezing computer" problem is very subjective to individual machines, so here goes.
My brother, who has built many PC's for himself and for me over the years, just finished a new one for me a week ago. After a few days it has started completely freezing (no mouse, keyboard, or C-A-D). This usually happens anywhere between 30 - 120 minutes of use. The screen abruptly freezes up, and any audio playing immediately turns into a horrible screeching sound.
This has occurred while playing a very demanding computer game, but also while watching video using VLC media player, while viewing internet pages, and also several times while transferring video files form my USB connected external hard drive to the new internal hard drive. I have to manually turn off the computer, and when I turn it back on again, its like nothing even happened. No error messages, no memory dump or blue screen, no "your system has recovered from a fatal error" or whatever, and no mention of the crash in the events log or device manager.
I'm running Windows XP SP3, and the following components were all purchased new either on Newegg.com or at BestBuy. I have updated all video drivers off nvidia.com for the graphics card.
AMD Phenom X3 720 2.8GHz Triple-core
MSI 770-C45 Motherboard
Crucial 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM (2x 2GB)
BFG GeForce GTX 260 896MB PCI Express graphics card
Corsair CMPSU 850W Crossfire Ready Active PFC Power Supply
Western Digital 1Terabyte Hard Drive (SATA)
I have a 100GB Seagate External Hard Drive Connected via USB, as well as a Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard connected via USB.
My Case is a Cooler Master HAF ("high-air-flow") Full Tower Case with 1 x 140mm rear fan, and 3 x 230mm fans. All fans are functional, and this beast practically cools my whole room.
Both my brother and myself are at a loss as to what this problem could be, and I'm nervous that I'll have to start sending parts back to Newegg one at a time until I find the culprit Please help!