Computer locking up and not sure why

[Mark W]

I just put together a new PC. It is in an Antec P180 case and has a
ASUS SLI-Premium motherboard. As well, I have a 550W Antec Power
Supply, BFG 7800gt video card, and AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 CPU.

My problem, it locks up from time to time. I"ve had it together for a
week and twice during that time it locked up. The first a couple days
after putting it together. Then last night it locked up again.

Once when I put a PC together I had frequent lockups, about every 4-5
hours and it turned out I found out the CPU was running around 130-135
degrees so I know that's the problem. This time with all the fans in
the case plus a Thermaltake Big Typhoon fan I can't see it doing that.
I did put the white paste on the CPU.

Anyway, I used ASUS Probe to check temperatures. It said the CPU is
running at 36/96 degrees. It said the motherboard is at 39/102 and
the CPU Fan is running at 1506RPM, the Chassis Fan at 1074RPM. These
temperatures seem fine, is that true? These are of cousre under no
load and I Have not ran the PC under a heavy load yet.

I am thinking as well it could be a driver issue. The first couple
days the PC was new and not much was installed and last night I
installed a lot of drivers. Anyway, any idea what could be causing
htis and most of all, are those temperatures okay? Thanks.

[Charles Howse]

Previously Mark W <markwco@removenospamcomcast.net> wrote: I just put together a new PC. It is in an Antec P180 case and has a ASUS SLI-Premium motherboard. As well, I have a 550W Antec Power Supply, BFG 7800gt video card, and AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 CPU.
My problem, it locks up from time to time. I"ve had it together for a week and twice during that time it locked up. The first a couple days after putting it together. Then last night it locked up again.
Once when I put a PC together I had frequent lockups, about every 4-5 hours and it turned out I found out the CPU was running around 130-135 degrees so I know that's the problem. This time with all the fans in the case plus a Thermaltake Big Typhoon fan I can't see it doing that. I did put the white paste on the CPU.
Anyway, I used ASUS Probe to check temperatures. It said the CPU is running at 36/96 degrees. It said the motherboard is at 39/102 and the CPU Fan is running at 1506RPM, the Chassis Fan at 1074RPM. These temperatures seem fine, is that true? These are of cousre under no load and I Have not ran the PC under a heavy load yet.
I am thinking as well it could be a driver issue. The first couple days the PC was new and not much was installed and last night I installed a lot of drivers. Anyway, any idea what could be causing htis and most of all, are those temperatures okay? Thanks.


Are your degrees standard metric Celsius or some historic
non SI degrees? If it is Farenheit, then 135F would be
around 60C which is not too much for modern CPUs.

About the drivers: I had some pretty bad lockup issues
recently with some game and a driver update to the newest
version cured it. I expect the next time i update the
game I will have to update the drivers as well....

Arno

[Mark W]

I left this out but the memory I'm using is two 512 meg Corsair TWINX
1024-3200XLPT. These are in the first two 'blue' slots for memory. I
am showing 1 gig total. As well, I have a Maxtor 300GB SATA Hard
drive and am using Windows XP Professional with SP2. As well I did
update the board to the latest BIOS.