First, i'd just like to say in advance, thankyou to anyone who helps me correct this problem.
I have done alot of testing so this might get long.
Heres my problem
About 8 months ago my computer started crashing randomly whilst playing videos (mainly AVI, MPEG, MKV) after a few weeks it got more frequent and was really starting to annoy me. When i say it crashes, i mean it just freezes and i have to press the reset button (no BSOD or anythin). I reinstalled windows vista and installed all my programs and latest drivers, this didnt fix the problem at all, so i disconneted all my HDDs except the windows drive, formatted the drive and installed XP on it. Again, my PC would still crash mostly when watching vids.
Because the crashes were so random it was hard for me to find where the problem was comming from but i then got some MKV videos, which always crashed after about 10 mins of watching. I installed Windows 7 RC1 and the problem was still there, so i deleted all my codecs and chose each codec carefully, after trying different codecs i found out that ffd show, vob sub and an MKV codec were causing the computer to crash, so i found replacements for them all - Xvid, Divx, haali and AC3 filter. With only these codecs installed, i can play all my videos without the frequent crashing.
However, the PC still crashes when playing games for a long time (after about 3 hours) and very rarely when im watching a video (maybe once a week). I have just re-assessed my windows experience index in win 7 and when it got to the "assessing media decoding" section, the computer crashed again.
If anyone knows what could be causing the problem i would appreciate it very much.
Id like to add that i'v tried removing RAM and memory tests and got no errors.
Also, Iv checked temperatures:
CPU - 40C idle, upto 50C load
GPU - 62C idle, 70C load
At first i thought my GPU was overheating, but it turns out its supposed to run that hot, plus the fan speeds up when it gets hot and is very loud when on full, i would have noticed if it was overheating
Below is my spec:
Intel core2 quad Q9450
Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX
2GB corsair ram 1333MHz
XFX 790i ultra motherboard
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty champion
700W coolermaster PSU
2 x 500GB maxtor HDD sata2
2 x 400GB seagate HDD IDE
1 x 250GB maxtor HDD sata 2
optiarc DVDRW sata
I have done alot of testing so this might get long.
Heres my problem
About 8 months ago my computer started crashing randomly whilst playing videos (mainly AVI, MPEG, MKV) after a few weeks it got more frequent and was really starting to annoy me. When i say it crashes, i mean it just freezes and i have to press the reset button (no BSOD or anythin). I reinstalled windows vista and installed all my programs and latest drivers, this didnt fix the problem at all, so i disconneted all my HDDs except the windows drive, formatted the drive and installed XP on it. Again, my PC would still crash mostly when watching vids.
Because the crashes were so random it was hard for me to find where the problem was comming from but i then got some MKV videos, which always crashed after about 10 mins of watching. I installed Windows 7 RC1 and the problem was still there, so i deleted all my codecs and chose each codec carefully, after trying different codecs i found out that ffd show, vob sub and an MKV codec were causing the computer to crash, so i found replacements for them all - Xvid, Divx, haali and AC3 filter. With only these codecs installed, i can play all my videos without the frequent crashing.
However, the PC still crashes when playing games for a long time (after about 3 hours) and very rarely when im watching a video (maybe once a week). I have just re-assessed my windows experience index in win 7 and when it got to the "assessing media decoding" section, the computer crashed again.
If anyone knows what could be causing the problem i would appreciate it very much.
Id like to add that i'v tried removing RAM and memory tests and got no errors.
Also, Iv checked temperatures:
CPU - 40C idle, upto 50C load
GPU - 62C idle, 70C load
At first i thought my GPU was overheating, but it turns out its supposed to run that hot, plus the fan speeds up when it gets hot and is very loud when on full, i would have noticed if it was overheating
Below is my spec:
Intel core2 quad Q9450
Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX
2GB corsair ram 1333MHz
XFX 790i ultra motherboard
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty champion
700W coolermaster PSU
2 x 500GB maxtor HDD sata2
2 x 400GB seagate HDD IDE
1 x 250GB maxtor HDD sata 2
optiarc DVDRW sata
