PC Problem

[[TiG]ABE]

Need bita help here.

I've been getting random stalls for a good while now.
I got one tonight and  lost alot of photoshop work (#!/~$%).

I thought it was a normal crash and tried to reset the pc and start again. Only to find the pc wouldnt boot at all, I tried it 10 times turned it off at the wall and waited few minutes etc that didnt work the screen didnt even come out of sleep and the bios didnt seem to run.

So i pulled out the cmos battery and moved the cmos pin from position 1 to 2 and reset it back and the pc booted fine after i done that.

will a low cmos battery cause crashes when in windows? I understand it affecting the system on start up but i dont think it would cause crashes after I log into windows.

Ive a new hard drive with fresh copy of windows installed.
and ive removed sticks of ram one by one (both have stalled on me but i think ones does it less than the other)

anyhelp would be great cuz i dnt have a feckn clue other than to buy a new system even though it could be very simple like a battery.

[[TiG]ABE]

goina run memtest86 and post results asap

[[TiG]the_syco]

Have you ran Memtest86 yet? http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/Memtest86.shtml

And if so, what has it said? The next test after Memtest86, is Prime95; http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

Memtest86 checks your RAM, Prime95 checks your CPU & your RAM. The blend test usually finds the fault.

From past use, Memtest86 finds the easy faults, Prime95 finds the not-so-easy-to-find faults.

[[TiG]ABE]

40errors on test 9 seems thats found my problem

and yes try not to snigger at my old system....  :|

[[TiG]the_syco]

If you want, and/or have the time, try the memtest86 on each DIMM individually. As for your system, meh. I'm using a Q9550 with 8GB's of RAM, 4GB's of which are only in there a few months.

[[TiG]ABE]

ok am still haven problems,

ive swapped out my ram  i tested above an replaced it with old ram. and ive changed out my gfx card to my old card.

and im still getting blue screens.

what's the best bit of software to test the cpu for errors.
ive downloaded that prime95 and goina run it overnight tonight.

[[TiG]the_syco]

and im still getting blue screens.

What does it say after the word "STOP" ?

what's the best bit of software to test the cpu for errors.
ive downloaded that prime95 and goina run it overnight tonight.

Ensure you have it set to log after every few minutes, so if it keels over, you'll have an idea what the problem is.