hey guys. i just got my new pc up and running and it keeps freezing after being on for awhile (1-4 hours or so).

at first i thought it was the cpu overheating, but i've been monitoring the temp and it is running right around 39-40 degrees celsius (100 degrees fahrenheit), and that seems to be ok. however, the system temp is 48 degrees celsius (118 degrees fahrenheit) and it says that is too high. this may be what is causing the pc to lock up.

what is the best way to cool that down? just get more/new fans?

any suggestions would be nice

my gpu is at 42 degrees celsius (105 degrees fahrenheit)

voltages are
cpu: 1.450
core: 1.53
mem: 2.62

any suggestions?

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz HT Socket 939 Processor
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
OCZ ModStream OCZ52012U ATX, BTX, SATA, P4 and EPS12V 520W Power Supply

4/8/2006 10:52:36 AM

if your system temp is that high, youve got a bad fan on the motherboard and or a bad motherboard

4/8/2006 12:10:42 PM

even though those temps are considered by some high , it shouldn't be causing problems unless u're overclocking. my system temps(dfi lanparty also) would read around 43c at idle until i took off the chipset fan scrapped the gunk and replaced it w. some as5 i also set the fan to be on full speed all time in the bios. if none of that helps other than what neon mentioned i'd run memtest and see if the ram is causing the lockups.



[Edited on April 8, 2006 at 1:32 PM. Reason : .]

4/8/2006 1:28:43 PM

i ran nTune to optimize my system settings, and the pc locked up when it got to "Tuning memory".

maybe there is something wrong with my memory

[Edited on April 8, 2006 at 4:49 PM. Reason : ]

4/8/2006 4:49:19 PM

Quote :

"run memtest"

http://www.memtest.org/

4/8/2006 10:26:44 PM

i ran memtest, but i don't really understand the tool. it ran for a very long time and the tests appeared to pass, but then i went into the configuration and tested something else and got like a million errors.

what exactly should i test for with MemTest?

4/9/2006 1:09:00 AM