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roy109

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    win xp comp locking up
    « on: November 15, 2008, 02:21:13 PM »
     help   i have a custom built xp comp running a  asus mn2emb, athlon 3400 duel core processer a sli vid card(cant remember name but used for 3d gaming),1 gig mem.,  onboard sound, and a 250 gig seagate that i think crashed and has been replaced by a west dig 500 gig  both was/are sata.  problem is installed the new hd and loaded fine,, everything looked fine surfed the net,  my son went to load games and get back to gaming and the comp. froze,restarted and same thing, tried another game   same thing   restarted and went to play an online game,  same thing,,  it seems like anything that takes more work or thinking by the comp locks it up.   could i have gotten a bad hd does this sound like something a hd might do?    i have checked all of the cables and connections      help my son is having gaming withdraws and he is driving me crazy
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    Re: win xp comp locking up
    « Reply #1 on: November 15, 2008, 03:44:30 PM »
    What temperature is your CPU running at? You can try SpeedFan 4.36.

    http://www.almico.com/speedfan436.exe
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      Re: win xp comp locking up
      « Reply #2 on: November 15, 2008, 08:39:18 PM »
      about 33 degrees celcius
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      Re: win xp comp locking up
      « Reply #3 on: November 15, 2008, 08:53:01 PM »
      Quote from: roy109 on November 15, 2008, 08:39:18 PM
      about 33 degrees celcius
      Is that your idle temperature or after/when you are playing games?
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        Re: win xp comp locking up
        « Reply #4 on: November 15, 2008, 10:00:51 PM »
        i guess idle because it locks up when i try to load games
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        Re: win xp comp locking up
        « Reply #5 on: November 16, 2008, 01:05:02 AM »
        Did you run the disk that came with your new hard drive? Did you check device manager after the install? Have you downloaded all of the updates that are available for your machine?
        If you think the hard drive may be bad run diagnostics disk.
        http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287
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          Re: win xp comp locking up
          « Reply #6 on: November 16, 2008, 05:30:20 AM »
          i have run scan disk ,in device mngr. it shows the drive with no problems, and i did run the disk that came with the drive before i installed xp and it formatted the drve and set it up for a 137gig partition wich i guess i understand that since it saic i could expand it after setup(but i dont think that is my problem),  i was just wondering if drive could be bad or have a glitch in it even though all says its ok and new
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          Re: win xp comp locking up
          « Reply #7 on: November 16, 2008, 05:56:10 AM »
          Have you ran tests on your drive?

          http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287
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            Re: win xp comp locking up
            « Reply #8 on: November 16, 2008, 07:34:07 AM »
            other than scandisk in tools what else is their
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              Re: win xp comp locking up
              « Reply #9 on: November 16, 2008, 07:54:55 AM »
              Do you have another disk you can try?

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                Re: win xp comp locking up
                « Reply #10 on: November 16, 2008, 07:58:19 AM »
                its not a sata hd so i will have to see if the mb has the other type of connecter   ill check and try it if it does and let you know
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