Hi,
I recently upgraded my mobo (from an asus A7V-266E, with VIA chipset, to a chaintech 7NJL6, with nForce 2 ultra 400 chipset) and processor (from AMD Athlon 1800+ to a Sempron 2600+).
I also bought a new HD (Western Digital Raptor 10k rpm, 76GB, SATA). There were a few initial installation problems when I tried installing Windows XP. But now it runs.
However, every now and then, my pc just reboots or freezes. When it freezes, it doesn't shut down, everything just stops running, I can't move the mouse, cannot turn numlock off, but I can open the cd-rom drives.
First I thought it was because of the chipset being overheated (it only has passive cooling) or the processor was overheated. So I put an extra fan there. But still, I have the same problems.
Does anyone know what other causes it could be? This is very annoying, last night I watched a movie and my pc rebooted eight times during the movie :S
Thx in advance.
I recently upgraded my mobo (from an asus A7V-266E, with VIA chipset, to a chaintech 7NJL6, with nForce 2 ultra 400 chipset) and processor (from AMD Athlon 1800+ to a Sempron 2600+).
I also bought a new HD (Western Digital Raptor 10k rpm, 76GB, SATA). There were a few initial installation problems when I tried installing Windows XP. But now it runs.
However, every now and then, my pc just reboots or freezes. When it freezes, it doesn't shut down, everything just stops running, I can't move the mouse, cannot turn numlock off, but I can open the cd-rom drives.
First I thought it was because of the chipset being overheated (it only has passive cooling) or the processor was overheated. So I put an extra fan there. But still, I have the same problems.
Does anyone know what other causes it could be? This is very annoying, last night I watched a movie and my pc rebooted eight times during the movie :S
Thx in advance.
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