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#1 Mar 14 2010 at 3:35 PM Rating: Decent
Os: Win 7 64 ultimate, Vista ultimate 32
Motherboard: MSI p55-gd65
RAM: Corsair 4 gigs ddr3 dual channel
Powersupply: tx750w corsair
Processor: i5 Clarksdale 3.2ghz
Videocard: Cant remember off the top of my head
Hard Drive: Black Cavalier 1tb

Anyway heres the deal. I loaded this up and started installing programs and have been receiving multiple random crashes. Sometimes it just locks for no reason on start up, downloading a torrent, installing anything, even trying to reload the drive after its been formatted.

My best guess is its the hard drive but im not sure. I tried loading vista on it but its locked up during install after I formatted the drive. Sometimes the lock ups kill power to the mouse and sometimes they dont. I can still open the cd tray but I cant toggle lights on the keyboard.

Im thinking its a bad drive but Id like some insight.
#2 Mar 14 2010 at 4:06 PM Rating: Excellent
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Lockups as you describe are likely going to be chipset related (mouse power loss is USB chipset loss), but under core I5 that could be the board or the procesor overheating, or a bad ram module. I'd try a bios update first and see if that does the trick, if not try pulling all but one ram stick for a while and see if it stabilizes, then slowly add them back in. or run memtest.

Anythign in event viewer? stop errors, system or application errors or warnings, etc? (control panel, administrative settings, event viewer)
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#3 Mar 14 2010 at 4:14 PM Rating: Decent
Mem test was fine. Temperatures are also ok. bios is updated as well. All drivers are fully updated.

No errors outside of it complaining it wasnt shut down properly.
#4 Mar 16 2010 at 7:08 PM Rating: Decent
Ok I finally resolved the problems.

* Random restarts were due to me overloading my power strip. having 2 750+ watt computer turned on at the same time was causing my power strip to drop power to this computer.

* Lock ups were being aused by 2 things. We had to step down the ram speed from 1600mhz to 1333mhz and also turn off some green pwoer settings in the bios.
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