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DrewChan

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Have a 1 month old Desktop PC bought from Makro. Have it hooked up to my 37 inch HD screen.
Recently it has taken to locking up constantly.

Usually starts out with my mouse freezing and then unfreezing at about 5 -6 secind intervals, then eventually the PC will lock up altogether.

Sound will usually disappear before a complete lockup and problem speeds up when playing video footage which makes me think its the graphics card (As both sound and video play thorugh it with an HDMI and Audio cable.

Any ideas here?

PC Specs:

i3 540 3.06
3GB DDr3
1 TB HDD
GT220 DDR2 1GB

Thanks in advance
 
why don't you download a win7 checker from their site to see if your computer runs at optimal performance?
 
Already formatted and reloaded windows although made a D:/ partition for my millions of series and anime. Doubt its a virus as no internet accesses and very little contact with external drives.
 
My guess is either overheating or crappy power supply.

What is the rated power supply that you have in that PC? 250W by any chance?

Also, does Win7 show Blue Screens with the same Error Code the whole time, or does the PC simply freeze and turn off?
 
My thought was also overheating although ran temp checks and GPU never went over 62 degrees, although the card was pretty hot to the touch, Yeah crappy 280w but the gt220 isnt exactly power hungry. Occassional blue screens, but mostly just freezes, doesn't turn off.
 
Well I love the idea of the refund but I think their limit is 14 days for store credit otherwise they don't refund, can anyone clarify? I knoew the PC was bad but got it as a work perk with the 37" HD Sony which is what I was really after, but yeah for R5999 Icould build something pretty nice. #$%# Makro
 
For R5900 you can get a pretty good gaming PC from WootWare! i3 540, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 430W PSU (80% efficient) and HD 6850.
That R5900 excludes shipping, keyboard, mouse, screen and Windows license though.

The problem could be the power supply, but there is a small chance that it is something else too, because your PC won't draw more than 130W in total.

I would advise you to borrow someone's decent 400W (or bigger) PSU and then run stress tests with like Furmark or some other stress test software.
 
Well to be honest I dont really care what the problem is if I can get these guys to refund me, logged a HelloPeter complain maybe i'll get through to them.

Don't want to dig in the internals due to Warranty, I believe it is a microstar mobo
 
Seems like it might be a driver error :/ did a bit of searching on google and a lot of these problems with a GT220, not sure about the 3 week onset though
 
Drivers!

I got that once, turns out it's the IRQ channels for the mouse and sound that conflicted. Check device manager, maybe uninstall sound driver and reinstall.
 
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