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My sister's PC keeps freezing. Sometimes it freezes as early as the 3d card boot info. Other times it gets to loading windows and sometimes it freezes while working on the PC.

Most likely I'm guessing that it's the primary HDD that is failing. I'd just like to hear what some other people think.
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Power supply?
Heat?
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Could also be bad RAM.
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Turn on the S.M.A.R.T feature in the bios and boot. See if it complains about the HDD.
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very diff to shoot from the hip like this on the info you gave
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KALSTER wrote:Turn on the S.M.A.R.T feature in the bios and boot. See if it complains about the HDD.
how many HDD's do you have in the PC??
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And could we have the specs of said PC??
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Motherboard: Epox MF570SLI
CPU: AMD 3800x2
GFX: XFX 8600gt 256mb
Ram: 2gb ddr2 samsung
HDD: seagate 80gb sata drive (primary), 40gb IDE seagate
PSU: 400W AOpen

Besides the pc freezing, it seems like it randomly goes off. Tried using a different PSU but that didn't help either

EDIT: Changed GFX card
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Try removing the 40gb HDD.
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And that PSU, probably is not powerful enough to supply all that(especially the 8800)
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whoops. meant 8600gt

As far as I can see the 400W is more than enough for her system. Will try unplugging the other hdd and report back
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Oh in that case 400W is probably just enough......
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THE_STIG wrote:And that PSU, probably is not powerful enough to supply all that(especially the 8800)
Stiggy, I'm runnng the same MF570SLi with a Phenom 2 965, 3x Sata hdd, 9600GT, 3gig ram over 4 slots and that very same AOPen 400W PSU, and it powers the system just fine. Unless it took a dive, which is possible, it's certainly powerful enough.

Hell, if I didn't know any better, I'd say my system has just been jacked :lol:
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Unplugged the 40gb secondary HDD and it still freezes. I really can't think that its the power supply as it has been running fine for a long time. I switched it out with the PSU om my mothers PC (same PSU) and it still continues to freeze.
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Then start looking at memory and cpu core temperatures... The 4 digit series of amd was notorious for temperature problems... Had 4 of them
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BIOS show cpu temp at 36-38
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Only thing I can think of then might be faulty memory
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Sigh. Now I need to go look for RAM to test with
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Don't have RAM to test with atm but just reseated the RAM that was already in there and it booted up fine. Will let it run for a while and hope that, that was all it needed
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I had the same problem once at a LAN... Very bad! Try cleaning your RAM stick regularly.
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Qrox wrote:Unplugged the 40gb secondary HDD and it still freezes. I really can't think that its the power supply as it has been running fine for a long time. I switched it out with the PSU om my mothers PC (same PSU) and it still continues to freeze.
Try different ram....but heat still could be the problem.
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No need.
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Does anything of yours actually work??
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Are you talking to me?
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Yes! All my hardware works. And my software works too. In some cases accidents/things/errors happen.
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