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Ugh... all the nightmares past are coming back to me. I just changed my motherboard and PSU and now my comptuer locks up left and right. New motherboard is a EPOX ep-8hmmi-a and the new power supply is an aspire 450W with duel rails.
Basically what happens is... everything on screen just freezes without a sound and the hard drive stops working but still spins. All the fans run and the system stays powered on but it will not respond to anything but the reset switch. The cause of this appears to be pure randomness: it will happen when going through my documents folder or when running prime 95. The first time it happened was while installing windows. During the GUI part it just froze, but I restarted the comptuer and it continued. Since then, it froze in windows about 6 times in the last 3 hours.
The problem is, I don't know what's causing it or even what's happening! Since there's no crash or error report I'm left dumbfounded. I took a ton of readings including temperatures and voltages so maybe you guys can point out something that looks off.
Temps: Idle: 36C, Load (never gotten a load for more than 4 minutes without a freze so it might not be full load yet): 52C. That's quite a step up from my other motherboard and power supply which had a load of 32C after gaming for hours.
Voltages (measured with digital multimeter):
Line hooked to 120mm led fan and temperature display (12V): Idle (/w cool'n'quiet): 12.28, Load (ATT artifact scanning): 11.88
Line hooked to video card (12V): Idle (/w cool'n'quiet): 12.3, Load (ATT artifact scanning): 11.79-11.8
Motherboard Power connector:
3.3: Idle: 3.28, Load: 3.25
5: Idle: 5.21, Load: 5.2
12: Idle: 12.28, load: 11.88
Other than that I really don't know what to check. I'm writing to you now on the PC, so it's not so bad that I can't do short tasks. I would try my old 500W ultra and see if that fixed it but unfortinately the 20 pin and 4 pin motherboard connectors are too bulky and hit eachother. All the rest of my parts are in my sig, minus the motherboard and PSU, of course.
Oh and the ratings on the PSU sticker are:
+3.3V: 31A
+5V: 28A
+12V1: 14A
+12V2: 16A
That's all I can think of. If you need more detail, let me know. If you can help me work this out I will rep you for every helpful post you make!
Basically what happens is... everything on screen just freezes without a sound and the hard drive stops working but still spins. All the fans run and the system stays powered on but it will not respond to anything but the reset switch. The cause of this appears to be pure randomness: it will happen when going through my documents folder or when running prime 95. The first time it happened was while installing windows. During the GUI part it just froze, but I restarted the comptuer and it continued. Since then, it froze in windows about 6 times in the last 3 hours.
The problem is, I don't know what's causing it or even what's happening! Since there's no crash or error report I'm left dumbfounded. I took a ton of readings including temperatures and voltages so maybe you guys can point out something that looks off.
Temps: Idle: 36C, Load (never gotten a load for more than 4 minutes without a freze so it might not be full load yet): 52C. That's quite a step up from my other motherboard and power supply which had a load of 32C after gaming for hours.
Voltages (measured with digital multimeter):
Line hooked to 120mm led fan and temperature display (12V): Idle (/w cool'n'quiet): 12.28, Load (ATT artifact scanning): 11.88
Line hooked to video card (12V): Idle (/w cool'n'quiet): 12.3, Load (ATT artifact scanning): 11.79-11.8
Motherboard Power connector:
3.3: Idle: 3.28, Load: 3.25
5: Idle: 5.21, Load: 5.2
12: Idle: 12.28, load: 11.88
Other than that I really don't know what to check. I'm writing to you now on the PC, so it's not so bad that I can't do short tasks. I would try my old 500W ultra and see if that fixed it but unfortinately the 20 pin and 4 pin motherboard connectors are too bulky and hit eachother. All the rest of my parts are in my sig, minus the motherboard and PSU, of course.
Oh and the ratings on the PSU sticker are:
+3.3V: 31A
+5V: 28A
+12V1: 14A
+12V2: 16A
That's all I can think of. If you need more detail, let me know. If you can help me work this out I will rep you for every helpful post you make!