Constant freezing and BSOD

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January 10th, 2008, 10:09 PM

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Constant freezing and BSOD

I got a 6 month old pc I built myself bought it as a bundle everything compatible. Now its constantly freezing and once in a while I would get the 0x0000009c error which tells me its a hardware related problem. I just need help to narrow it down.
NOTE: I am not overclocking everything in BIOS is default

So when this first started happening I:
- Upgraded BIOS
- Bought new PSU
- Bought bigger CPU heat sink
- Changed RAM
- Reinstalled XP SP2 on different HDD (w/ all windows updates)

Still same problem but doing it less now its about every 30-40mins that it hangs.

PC specs:
Mobo AsRock 775i65G
CPU DualCore Intel Pentium D 930 3.0GHz
RAM 2X Samsung PC3200 512mb
PSU Thermaltake Purepower 500W
Heat sink Scythe Ninja Plus REV B.
Video ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 128MB AGP
HDD 40GB Barracuda (FOR NOW) usually have 80GB WD
CDRW 52X LG

Temps:
Mobo avg 33C
CPU avg 35C
HDD avg 23C

CPU Specs:
CPU Type DualCore Intel Pentium D 930, 3000 MHz (15 x 200)
CPU Alias Presler
Instruction Set x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3
Original Clock 3000 MHz
Min / Max CPU Multiplier 12x / 15x
Engineering Sample No
L1 Trace Cache 12K Instructions
L1 Data Cache 16 KB
L2 Cache 2 MB per core (On-Die, ECC, ATC, Full-Speed)

CPUID Properties
CPUID Manufacturer GenuineIntel
CPUID CPU Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz
CPUID Revision 00000F65h
IA Brand ID 00h (Unknown)
Platform ID 25h (LGA775)
IA CPU Serial Number Unknown
Microcode Update Revision 9
HTT / CMP Units 1 / 2

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January 19th, 2008, 01:54 AM

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Tell us what your doing when it hangs!

Nilpo has an excellent bsod troubleshooting page here

Microsoft knowledge base for your error here

I'm curious if you have any thermal paste between the CPU and the heatsink!

Last edited by jammerx99 : January 19th, 2008 at 02:20 AM.

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