[copper123]

Hi All,


I have been suffering a few issues with my PC crashing at seemingly random points


Generally, one of the following happens at random points when running my PC.

• PC Halts and screen freezes
• Blue screen of death displays briefly before PC resets itself (I get numerous errors here, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA for example was one, however, there are a number of different errors I have also received)
• Computer restarts itself immediately
• A relatively new symptom is that when booting into windows, it will restarts around the point that the login screen displayed and loop continually until I power off.

The system, at the moment, seems to be ok for approx 5 minutes on cold-boot, however, will always ultimately fail. If I am lucky, I seem to be able to get an hour out if it. I do not believe this to be a windows issue, as I have dual boot XP, Vista and Linux and all 3 operating systems will crash in the same way.


I have tried the following;

• Replacing RAM with brand new RAM
• Disabling integrated sound card
• Replaced PCI-Express graphics card with brand new card
• Disable on-board LAN
• Moved RAM to different ports

When I originally replaced the RAM, the PC was working perfectly for a few days, however, after going on holidays for a few days I came back to discover the same symptoms had re-surfaced. I have run windows memory test again today and this is reporting mass errors yet again.


Personally, I am running out of ideas and believe this is likely a CPU/Motherboard issue, but if that is the case I will have to fork out the money to buy a new PC ... I would prefer to get a bit longer than 12 months out of my relatively new PC.


If anyone has any other suggestions/theories as to what else might be causing my problems here, please let me know.


Thanks in advance,
Chris

[dDAPPete]

I'm having freezing too.....if worse comes to worse and you could use a new MB they are probably like $150 I'm guessing and you might be able to install yourself. No reason to fork out lots of dough.
pete

[copper123]

Hi Pete,
Thanks for the reply. I am not 100% sure it is my motherboard. I think it is most likely the issue though. I have already spent some money on new RAM which didn't fix the issue ... I think instead of buying replacement parts bit by bit, I'd rather just buy a new PC and start fresh so that I am guaranteed a fix. I may be able to salvage some parts like HDD, DVD and GPU.

Regards,
Chris