Computer Siezing?

[diluzio91]

thats my next step, thankfully, i still have that 775 board that i have for sale, and the p4... i jury rigged an amd hsf to the processor and im going to drop the gpu and ect into that board, if the stutter stops i guess i have to rma my mobo...

[RogueOpportunist]

Have you tried any CPU specific tests like prime95? and is your CPU overclocked/overvolted at all? In your shoes I would suspect the CPU and power supply as being the most likely culprits... I would swap the PSU (assuming you have a spare) just to check it as faulty power can do all kinds of weird things to a system.

[diluzio91]

I checked the PSU, Swapped it with a corsair i pulled from the Pawnshop PC, no change, CPU is at stock, I did notice that my video card ram was overclocked slightly in precision, but its the fpb edition, so i think evga did that. I stocked it all though.

[blaze15301]

Sometimes it is a driver issue. Like the evga precision tool could be interfering with the drivers. Are you getting any sort of error or is it just like a random thing and the computer ignores it? with my ati drivers i get a freeze then black screen normal then 5 mins freeze drivers crash.

[diluzio91]

well.... excuse me while i wipe the egg off my face, but i got the replacement hdd from western digital the other day, and when i opened my case to swap them out i realized...

While i had unplugged the faulty drive from the motherboard...
i forgot to unplug it from the PSU...

and with that statement, the problem has stopped.... even with the most strenuous things i tried on it... so my best guess is that the bad drive was drawing stupid amounts of wattage because of it's inherent faultyness.... or something like that. Going on 2 days with no skips...

[Cale_Hagan]

well.... excuse me while i wipe the egg off my face, but i got the replacement hdd from western digital the other day, and when i opened my case to swap them out i realized...

While i had unplugged the faulty drive from the motherboard...
i forgot to unplug it from the PSU...

and with that statement, the problem has stopped.... even with the most strenuous things i tried on it... so my best guess is that the bad drive was drawing stupid amounts of wattage because of it's inherent faultyness.... or something like that. Going on 2 days with no skips...

HaHa, i've done stuff of similar caliber before. Glad it's working!

[billygoat333]

Glad you got it working again! lol

[diluzio91]

i said screw it and ordered an 850 Watt corsair psu... i wish i could have nabbed that $40 one, but it was out of stock. the reason i suspect the PSU is that it gets very warm when the skipping starts. then if i turn the computer off for a while, then turn it back on when the psu is cool to the touch, then it works just fine.

[AmEv]

Not as bad as flipping an IDE cable.


Very easy to do :oops: (Well, it WAS...)

[diluzio91]

my computer is completely virus free... I kind of do IT work and know how to find viruses, and that was the first thing i checked... It was a bad hard drive (another one X_X) and i dont know when i'll get around to putting an rma in for it.