My computer randomly locks up

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:38 am

It never has locked up during normal use, such as browsing the web and such. It’s only locked up during gameplay. It’s an Intel processor based, Asus Maximus II Formula mobo, 4 gigs Crucial Ballistik ram, ATI 5970 Radeon video, over two terabyte RAID5, and 75 gig raptor.

I have over 25 games installed, could that be making it lock-up?

What’s making the games lock up?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:25 am

Only locking up during gameplay....first thing I think of is "heat". Is it being overclocked?
BIOS updates?
Driver updates?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:57 am

Yeah I go with heat first thing, I know you're updated good on graphics drivers cause of another thread you said so in. What are the games installed on just the raptor and do you have plenty of space left on it cause those things fill up quick for me on just 3 games let alone 25.

Those Ballistik ram sticks gave me nothing but trouble a while back from bad batches and whatever else so I dropped them fast... so just seeing you have those I may lean towards memory issues - test each stick with memtest and see what you get.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:02 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Only locking up during gameplay....first thing I think of is "heat". Is it being overclocked?
BIOS updates?
Driver updates?

Bios is up to date, video is one update behind. I might try some different ram since I have some.

Heat is no problem.

Not overclocked.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:18 am

Although I love Crucial as my favorite brand of memory.....I've also not had a 100% good experience with their Ballistix RAM.
Sometimes it needs more juice....the standard voltage is 1.9v. Some memory needs 2.0 or 2.1 or 2.2..hopefully not much more. Some motherboards are fine an can auto adjust and bump up the voltage automatically. Others need it to be manually bumped up. So first..check out the specs of your exact part number of memory..see what voltage it needs..you may find it's 2.1v and if so, go into your BIOS and bump up the memory voltage.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:02 pm

I gave up on the Ballistix... I played with the timing and voltages so much on 3 different sets that I just gave the hell up. A bad batch of 1 set caused me alot of downtime on one build while also finding out the motherboard just didn't have the bios update needed for these chips to work in the first place. Switched out board and chips to a asus board and still no go on the ram... them suckers are just very difficult to get to work right not to mention they are slower than other chips now out so I wouldn't waste my time with them.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:19 pm

I think I have a bad motherboard. I tried four 1gig sticks of Corsair ram and the PC would not boot. I then tried two in the same color slots, same thing no boot. Then I tried one and it booted.

I’m not certain what to think.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:53 pm

RoundEye wrote:I think I have a bad motherboard. I tried four 1gig sticks of Corsair ram and the PC would not boot. I then tried two in the same color slots, same thing no boot. Then I tried one and it booted.

I’m not certain what to think.

Are the memory sticks you keep trying supported by the board? Is the board's bios updated?

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:35 pm

I’m not certain if they are officially supported, they did work before I got the Crucial ram. I have to check on the ram and bios. It’s quite possible they have a bios update because I haven’t updated it in a year.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:54 am

is the memory running at the correct timings and voltage, you may have to set that manually in bios