My computer starts to crash in a strange way in recent 1+ year. The features are:
- whenever it crashes, the screen freezes and the HDD led is on
- I need to manually turn off the power supply to reboot the computer. If I use the reset button, it won't work and the computer will give a message like "can't find a bootable media"
- the crash occurs almost randomly - during playing online game, opening a website, starting Winamp or scanning the hard disk. Fortunately, the crash is infrequent (may be 1-3 times per day, mostly once). It can occur at the beginning of the computer session or at the end of it (certainly not only when the CPU is under heavy workload)
- During this period, I have tried the followings: replace the hard disk (from IDE to SATA), updated motherboard driver, open the computer case (for better ventilation), reload Win XP and change the display card but the problem persists
Please help to solve this puzzle.
My PC's configuration
Pentium 4 2.6 GHZ
Intel 865 PERL
1 GB Geil PC3200 DDR Ram
Nvidia Geforce FX5200
Maxtor 250 GB hard disk (SATA)
NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG (IDE)
Power Supply at least 350W
WIn XP SP2
- whenever it crashes, the screen freezes and the HDD led is on
- I need to manually turn off the power supply to reboot the computer. If I use the reset button, it won't work and the computer will give a message like "can't find a bootable media"
- the crash occurs almost randomly - during playing online game, opening a website, starting Winamp or scanning the hard disk. Fortunately, the crash is infrequent (may be 1-3 times per day, mostly once). It can occur at the beginning of the computer session or at the end of it (certainly not only when the CPU is under heavy workload)
- During this period, I have tried the followings: replace the hard disk (from IDE to SATA), updated motherboard driver, open the computer case (for better ventilation), reload Win XP and change the display card but the problem persists
Please help to solve this puzzle.
My PC's configuration
Pentium 4 2.6 GHZ
Intel 865 PERL
1 GB Geil PC3200 DDR Ram
Nvidia Geforce FX5200
Maxtor 250 GB hard disk (SATA)
NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG (IDE)
Power Supply at least 350W
WIn XP SP2