I've got a weird problem where my machine will spontaneously reboot or get "funky" (where I can move my mouse around and highlight icons by clicking on them and get tooltips from the taskbar, but not actually do anything, like open up My Computer or expand the Start Menu or anything else besides hard-reboot), but only after many hours of idle time, as far as I can tell.
e.g. I have had multiple huge marathon sessions of gaming with FEAR and City of Villains (like 6-8 hours?), both of which you would expect to be slamming the hard drive, the RAM, the CPU, the audio card, and the video card, with no problems. However, if I leave my machine on overnight or when I go to work, it is never working correctly when I get back. (It may reboot only 3 hours into idle time when I can play games with no problems for much longer than that).
It's a brand new system - and it's been having this problem the entire time. Reboot/funkiness is 100% reproducable with ~4+ hours of idle time and system has been, say, 99% stable when doing anything else on it (games, 3D modeling applications, other cpu/ram intensive stuff).
Asus a8n-sli premium mobo
AMD athlon64 x2 4400+
2x 1gig sticks of OCZ ram.
Creative X-Fi
Nvidia 7800gt
250 gig SATA Western Digital drive. Actually, SATA2, I think?
Asus probe log reports nothing funny going on with voltages or temps just before the machine goes down.
chkdsk reports no problem with my drives.
This last time it went down it made a minidump, so I followed cpc2004's instructions on reading it and have attached the log here.
Any help would be appreciated, and I am a super newb, so feel free to talk dumb to me. I have not yet tested the RAM, because I don't have a floppy drive and I'd need to dig my CD burner out of the garage
, but it would seem that stability while running RAM intensive programs and instability when doing nothing would rule that out, but hey, that's why I'm asking you guys for help.
Thanks!
Ken
e.g. I have had multiple huge marathon sessions of gaming with FEAR and City of Villains (like 6-8 hours?), both of which you would expect to be slamming the hard drive, the RAM, the CPU, the audio card, and the video card, with no problems. However, if I leave my machine on overnight or when I go to work, it is never working correctly when I get back. (It may reboot only 3 hours into idle time when I can play games with no problems for much longer than that).
It's a brand new system - and it's been having this problem the entire time. Reboot/funkiness is 100% reproducable with ~4+ hours of idle time and system has been, say, 99% stable when doing anything else on it (games, 3D modeling applications, other cpu/ram intensive stuff).
Asus a8n-sli premium mobo
AMD athlon64 x2 4400+
2x 1gig sticks of OCZ ram.
Creative X-Fi
Nvidia 7800gt
250 gig SATA Western Digital drive. Actually, SATA2, I think?
Asus probe log reports nothing funny going on with voltages or temps just before the machine goes down.
chkdsk reports no problem with my drives.
This last time it went down it made a minidump, so I followed cpc2004's instructions on reading it and have attached the log here.
Any help would be appreciated, and I am a super newb, so feel free to talk dumb to me. I have not yet tested the RAM, because I don't have a floppy drive and I'd need to dig my CD burner out of the garage
, but it would seem that stability while running RAM intensive programs and instability when doing nothing would rule that out, but hey, that's why I'm asking you guys for help.Thanks!
Ken
