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    Windows XP dies

    My problem is as soon as i do something labor intensive or pull a bunch of
    data from another drive my computer dies. Let me be more specific, the screen
    goes black, the computer stays running but i can't do anything except
    manually reboot it to get it back to where it was. I moved and should have
    packed all the components individually but didn't. It did this before, and i
    ran scan disc and that seemed to clear it up. I really am not sure where the
    problem is. i have a secondary drive and primary, its done it when both
    drives were being accessed. here are my specs.

    ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
    ASUS EN6600GT/TD/128 GeForce 6600GT 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI
    Supported Video Card (only one used to run two but one of the bastards died
    on me)
    PLEXTOR DVD Burner Black SATA Model PX-712SA/SW-BL
    Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive
    AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Newcastle 2.4GHz Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3800AWBOX
    Microsoft XP x64 edition
    Transcend 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit
    System Memory Model TS2GDDR400K
    Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

    Anyone have absolutely idea?

  • ME

    #2
    Re: Windows XP dies

    Video - Could have killed another one.
    Power - Make sure you have an adequet power supply to power all of your
    gear. It could be that accessing a hard drive or performing intense CPU
    usage robs your video card of power it needs (in other words your power
    supply may be inadequet), hanging it.
    Heat - Always a culprit, though an easy way to test for heat is to open the
    case, get a desk fan and aim it at the motherboard. If the problem goes
    away with the fan blowing on it, the problem is most likely heat related.

    Thanks,

    Matt


    "archimedes " <archimedes@dis cussions.micros oft.comwrote in message
    news:DB73B52A-9E30-4CD5-8822-96DF5CA85556@mi crosoft.com...
    My problem is as soon as i do something labor intensive or pull a bunch of
    data from another drive my computer dies. Let me be more specific, the
    screen
    goes black, the computer stays running but i can't do anything except
    manually reboot it to get it back to where it was. I moved and should have
    packed all the components individually but didn't. It did this before, and
    i
    ran scan disc and that seemed to clear it up. I really am not sure where
    the
    problem is. i have a secondary drive and primary, its done it when both
    drives were being accessed. here are my specs.
    >
    ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
    ASUS EN6600GT/TD/128 GeForce 6600GT 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
    SLI
    Supported Video Card (only one used to run two but one of the bastards
    died
    on me)
    PLEXTOR DVD Burner Black SATA Model PX-712SA/SW-BL
    Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard
    Drive
    AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Newcastle 2.4GHz Socket 939 Processor Model
    ADA3800AWBOX
    Microsoft XP x64 edition
    Transcend 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel
    Kit
    System Memory Model TS2GDDR400K
    Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard
    Drive
    >
    Anyone have absolutely idea?
    >

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    • =?Utf-8?B?YXJjaGltZWRlcw==?=

      #3
      Re: Windows XP dies

      thanks matt! i appreciate the help!

      "ME" wrote:
      Video - Could have killed another one.
      Power - Make sure you have an adequet power supply to power all of your
      gear. It could be that accessing a hard drive or performing intense CPU
      usage robs your video card of power it needs (in other words your power
      supply may be inadequet), hanging it.
      Heat - Always a culprit, though an easy way to test for heat is to open the
      case, get a desk fan and aim it at the motherboard. If the problem goes
      away with the fan blowing on it, the problem is most likely heat related.
      >
      Thanks,
      >
      Matt
      >
      >
      "archimedes " <archimedes@dis cussions.micros oft.comwrote in message
      news:DB73B52A-9E30-4CD5-8822-96DF5CA85556@mi crosoft.com...
      My problem is as soon as i do something labor intensive or pull a bunch of
      data from another drive my computer dies. Let me be more specific, the
      screen
      goes black, the computer stays running but i can't do anything except
      manually reboot it to get it back to where it was. I moved and should have
      packed all the components individually but didn't. It did this before, and
      i
      ran scan disc and that seemed to clear it up. I really am not sure where
      the
      problem is. i have a secondary drive and primary, its done it when both
      drives were being accessed. here are my specs.

      ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
      ASUS EN6600GT/TD/128 GeForce 6600GT 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
      SLI
      Supported Video Card (only one used to run two but one of the bastards
      died
      on me)
      PLEXTOR DVD Burner Black SATA Model PX-712SA/SW-BL
      Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard
      Drive
      AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Newcastle 2.4GHz Socket 939 Processor Model
      ADA3800AWBOX
      Microsoft XP x64 edition
      Transcend 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel
      Kit
      System Memory Model TS2GDDR400K
      Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard
      Drive

      Anyone have absolutely idea?
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