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January 13th, 2010 18:00
Computer randomly crashing
Heres the problem, randomly it seems, whether im browsing the net, playing a game, etc. The computer will freeze, and loop a loud buzzing "stutter" sound. The lights on the keyboard also go off. The freeze is un-recoverable and im forced to hard-restart.
Also everytime I restart my comp is Slowwwwwwww for like 10 minutes at bootup, like, programs not responding, the CPU usage is litterally spiking like ...I...I...I...
Crashes seem to happen every few hours. Already updated all my drivers, etc. Already scanned for viruses, and Ive also disabled all my installed programs on startup. Nothing fixes it.
Level 1 overclocking.
Cosmic Black ALX - 875 Watt Power Supply
Intel® Core™ i7 920 (2.66GHz, 8MB Cache)
Dual 1GB GDDR5 ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Crossfire™ Enabled
6GB Triple Channel 1600MHz DDR3
1TB RAID 0 (2x 500GB SATA-II, 7,200 RPM, 16MB Cache HDDs)
Single Drive: 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
Alienware® High-Performance Liquid Cooling
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Any suggestions before I have to call tech support?
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FalconW7
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January 13th, 2010 22:00
Open up your ALX and check if all components are seated correctly in their slots like the memory. A wrong seated module can do these things. You can also run a memory checker like memtest and downspeed your memory to a lower setting like 1333Mhz in the bios. This worked for a couple a people.
You can use cpuid to check which memory dell installed. Maybe they installed the wrong modules.
Kyronami
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January 13th, 2010 23:00
was working fine for a month or two when I got it... :\
I ran memtest to 100% with no errors. then stopped the test.