System Freezes

I see, I have tried most of the steps you have done except updating my BIOS but intend to do it. I got the latest drivers and all but it just keep freezing. Changed the settings etc, tried setting the BIOS on APG instead of PCI but nothing. So hopefully we can both figure out this problem as its really irritating.

I am starting to wonder if this spesific graphic card has known issues or if it is driver related problems, anyhows from what I can see about your system osreader is that we only got 2 things in common and that is the graphic card and Windows XP Home Edition SP2 which I think indicated that one of those 2 things is the cause for this problem.

Well I have comed to a conclusion that its not the graphic card that causes this problem as I tried borrowing a graphic card from my friend which has problems with his computer being restarted and he suspected his graphic card, so I let him borrow mine while I borrowed his. I installed the drivers for his card and started up by doing a benchmark test and the system stopped responding again.

So now I am wondering if this problem I got could be caused by a problem with the CPU, Memory, HDD or my PSU?

Anyways does anyone know if my PSU is good or bad? I got a Q-Tec V-MD 350 (ATX-350), info here: http://www.qtec.info/products/product.htm?artnr=13317&specs=1

Btw, after reading on my powersupply I found out that I got this:
+5v = 35A, +12v = 17A, -5 = 0,5A, -12v = 0,5A, +3,3v = 20A, +5VSB = 2,0A

Is that good or bad?

Some help would be great!

Tidus,

I've been reading some other forums, and I seem to have found someone who has the same motherboard and graphics card as my system, and the conclusion of the thread was that the two are incompatible. My motherboard is not really designed as a gamers board.

This may not be the case, but this other person was having the same problems as I am, and the only way it was resolved was by getting another graphics card that fits a PCI slot rather than AGP.

That isn't really the answer I wanted, but I have yet to find a thread on any forum that relates to the problems that we are having that has a successful conclusion.

Also, there seems to be a rather large number of threads on this forum and others that deal with problems specific to this card. This may be usual, but there seems to be an unusually large number of problems for this card.

I don't know much about power supplies, or I would give you some feedback - sorry.

os reader,

I regretibly bought the ATI 9550 256 MB and have had relentless irritation from restarts and the problems you talk about. I think there are a few compatibility issues with that card and its best just to sata away from it all together. If all else fails just get a better card.

cjb,

I actually read all four pages of your dialogue with tech support and your attempt to resolve your problems, in hopes of finding insight into mine. Alas! There was none! Have you resolved your issues? Or did you give up and get another card?

I think that I am going to end up getting another card, but I want to find out any potential compatability problems beforehand - any suggestions?

I wish I could say that the Radeon 9550 card I have(had) was incompatible with my system, however in my case it does not seem to be that as I tried a different card (Nvida Geforce4 Ti 4200) and the system still lock up. I also did run a memtest86 overnight (Runned for about 14 hours) and got no errors which itself if the test is accurate indicated that this is not caused by a faulty memory. So right now I think its either my PSU that is bad or my CPU is faulty.

After running SpeedFan I could see that my temps are all fine, however I am wondering if the readings of my +3,3V, +12V and +5 is ok or if it indicates that the PSU may be failing.

+3,3V = 3,12V
+5V = 4,92V
+12V = 11,67V
-12V = 0,97V
-5V = 2,19V
+5VSB = 5,38V

Also when it comes to Nvidia Geforce4 Ti 4200 I doubt it is incompatible with my system as my chipset is a Nvidia nForce2 Ultra 400 / MCP-RAID which I would think a Nvidia graphic card with a Nvidia chipset would run stable.

Anyways I hope you get a solution to your problem and I get a solution to my problem.

Btw can anyone tell me if this PSU: http://www.northq.com/products/powersupply/nq4001al.html is a good or a bad one? Thinking of buying it.

osreader

do a roll back to sp1

sp2 give me alot of freezing too when i play Lineage2

not sure it would help but it worth the try since sp2 only add in stuff to protect you from hacker, a firewall could do all that as well...

So what about my problem?

try rerolling to sp1 as well and uninstall any programs you doesn't use alot.

finally, use Ad Aware scan for spyware, restart pc go into Bios setting and set to "Optomize default"

thats what i do to get my problem fix

Ok, but how do I reroll back to SP1 when SP2 was installed already and came with the XP cd. It does not show in Add/Remove programs list. I am also using a OEM version of XP.

Try DL sp1 and overwrite sp2, not sure that would work, but i would save a restore point before doing that.

Ok just to let everyone know. I took the advice and bought a new PSU which is a ThermalTake TR2-500W with the current amps:

+3,3V = 30A
+5V = 28A
+12V1 = 14A
+12V2 = 15A
-12V = 0,3A
+5VSB = 2,0A

And guess what, the computer still freezes in games and benchmark which really tells me that it can't be the PSU which causes this as this PSU got a Dual +12V Rails.

So what else may cause this problem?!

I finally fixed my problem, it turned out that there must have been some problems with my memory as I borrowed a memory brick from a friend of mine and then everything seems to run stable.