When I play music it'll freeze and stutter for about 1-2 seconds every 10 seconds or so, and in that time my whole pc locks up. When I'm not playing music, it doesn't do it so much, but it still does lock up every now and again. And yeah, the RAM is OC'd, but not very high. Stock is 1150, when I first installed it, it defaulted right up to 1333. I downclocked it to 1200 and bumped the voltage to 2.0. I'm actually hoping that someone tells me that my sound drivers are bugging, because I won't be able to reinstall my OS for a couple days.
SMART data looks fine...better than the majority of harddrives on the market. Grab a copy of HWMonitor from cpuid.com and post the info that UZ7 requested. ShadowMyth had a good idea...but I've never seen SMART return accurate results. I've got an 80gb WD drive that gets ratings of "Good" in every category from SMART....yet the drive is unusable. Dual booting Windows and Linux won't cause system hangs. It would be a good idea to grab a copy of memtest86+ (bootable, not the windows version) and test your memory, as faulty memory can cause system hangs. It's not advised to use the windows version as it's known to produce inaccurate results. Windows Vista and Windows7 have a built in memory test located under Administrative Tools in the Control Panel. You can also go to "Performance and Reliability" and look at the memory section. If you expand it, you can see how many memory errors per second and if you scroll down, you can see how many memory errors have happened per minute for each active service. Roughly 10 errors per minute or less is pretty common for most windows services. If you see more than 10 errors per second (or more than 100 for any service or combination of services per minute), you have at least 1 faulty stick of memory. Usually, 100 or more memory errors per minute and I would recommend replacing the memory without running memtest86+....but in this case, if you see 20 or more memory errors per minute, it'd be a good idea to run memtest86+ as it will show potential memory failures. Do NOT use the one built into windows as it only makes 1 pass. You need to use the bootable version of memtest86+ and allow it to run for at least 1 night....I recommend at least 8-12hrs for the most accurate results. IF you get any errors recorded by memtest86+....replace the memory set.
I ran Memtest86+ before and didn't get any errors (thankfully, because my RAM got discontinued shortly after I bought it, and I'm broke), but this JUST started happening earlier today or last night... I'm gonna download HWmonitor and see though.
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It looks like its bottlenecking. When it stutters does the ram usage max out? Does it stutter in both Windows & linux?
CROW This could help if you have internal wireless pci card in your pc disable it and see if your pc still stutters I had a similar problem and turned out to be my Belkin 300N pci card good luck.
Hey mate when your PC freezes up again, have a look at the HDD light and take note of whether it's stuck on ok..
lol if that +12V was right then ur system shouldnt be on.. try to access your bios for an accurate reading
Ok, ran Memtest86+ again overnight, for 5 hours, no errors (thank God), and booted up, the problem was gone. Shut down, and restarted (after doing some GPU OC... It's good for the soul), problem was back. I have no idea what's the story with the 12V+. but... He's right. My wireless card has been the bane of my sanity and stability (Mine or my PC's?) and I disabled it when it was serious, and it was gone. Tested it on some FLACs and everything was smooth. Enabled it and there it was again. Ah well, I guess Wireless connectivity isn't for me. I haven't tried it in Linux (Crunchbang) but I don't even know how to configure the wireless (everyone has some sort of issue with the RT2860 chipset Linux drivers). Thanks for your help guys. =] EDIT:: Note to self, pump up voltage on GPU to 1.2V.
In that case you could use PCI Tool to check whether it's being caused by PCI latency if you wanted to.
Maybe, if you knew what to look for.. Then again I don't know much about technological stuff........really I just make it up as I go along... Nobody has caught on yet though..
No problem man Like I said before I had the same problem I think it has to do with specific drivers try different ones good luck.
Hmm, been trying out different drivers, Same @#$%, different timestamp. I'm gonna go back to the old-arse ones that came with my CD and see if it wants to behave.
