PC hang!

[leos1981]

Start from last month, when I using my PC (AMD 1800), it will hang suddenly (no blue screen, just remain the current page). Even I press CRT+ALT+DEL also not working. I need to press the reset button to restart the PC. 1 week after, I found the the RAM are broken and I buy a new RAM and install it. But the same problem still occured. I guess that is because of my motherboard but not very sure. Anybody got same problem as me? Or Someone know the problem?

Thank you.

[Xko]

Well, you say you've changed the RAM sticks but the problem still occurs.

If you have more than one stick of RAM then i'd suggest trying one stick at a time to indentify any further problems.

Also does your PC 'stick' after a certain amount of time or when you do anything in particular?

Bit more info would be useful... ;)

[Horus Kol]

i had this problem when i bought my current computer about 3 years ago...

I discovered it was because the dumbasses who I bought it off had overclocked the CPU without improving the basic cooling system, and the CPU was locking up in some kind of self-protection mode...

was most unimpressed.

[JamieR]

I've had that as well. Turned out to be a motherboard chipset driver incompatibility with my OS (Windows 2000). Solution was to install the latest chipset drivers and then do all the driver hacks that I got reccomended. However, this is rare..so I think you might either have dodgy ram or Graphics card....could be that your Graphics card is secretly confliciting with your AGP system on your motherboard..

Download memtest from www.memtest.org - the dowloadable ISO creates a bootable CD which you boot from to check your ram out - trust me, it works:D

Jamie.