System crashing randomly - Heat issue?

[jaybirdxkj]

System:
Soyo Drangon Plus Mobo, AMD 1.4 Ghz, Pine Geforce2 Mx400, 256 MB DDR Ram, Sound Blaster Live 5.1, Creative v.92 modem, Sony Cdrw, Maxtor 60 gb 7200 rpm hd.

Allright heres the deal; When I first built the system it was giving me trouble with "freezing" randomly but that was a compatibility issue w/the sound card and the mobo and I fixed that. I had the system running great for probably a month or so and then all of the sudden it starts crashing on me. Whenever I try and multitask alot or run certain applications it freezes everything. If there is sound playing at the time it keeps repeating the sound. Now here is what makes me think its a heat issue - Whenever I try to restart it wont let me into windows. It will always come up with a blue screen error, usually a bad VxD call. (here is one of the specific messages - A fatal exception OE has occurred at 0028:C000B261 in VxD Vmm(01) +0000A261 ) Or sometimes it will give me a windows protecion error, or sometimes just a blank screen with a blinking cursor at the top. It just seems random. Also, when i go into my bios and look at the temperatures for the system - they usually read at 30 something for the system and 50 something for the cpu which i know is bad. Any suggestions?

Oh - one more thing - for cooling I have front and rear fans and a thermaltake super orb on the cpu, but the gpu only has a heat sink on it.

 

[Neo81]

Have you got your latest drivers for all hardware of the net? got the latest Direct X installed .... everything it seated correctly ..... The errors that you are getting still sounds like a incorect driver or compatability problem .... hmm see how you go with those ideas, It doesn't sound like heat or power problem....

Later
NEo81 >:O>

 

[CitrixEngineer]

50C is OK for the CPU - as Neo81 says, it looks more like a software incompatibility issue - possibly a device driver. I would suspect the SB Live - try switching off SB16 compatibility (by disabling the SB16 driver in Device Manager).

If that works, but causes issues with games (no sound, etc), then you can set the SB16 driver to share the printer IRQ and re-enable it.

If this does not solve all the issues, try moving the soundcard to a different PCI slot. No, really!

Hope this helps CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk

 

[1Bullet]

Your symtoms can also be a result from a flaky stick of ddr ram you may wish to stress test or have tested for you.
If its a bad stick your operating system is most likly corrupt and will have to be reinstalled.

 

[jaybirdxkj]

I forgot to tell you guys that the problem occurs without any cards besides the agp card in. So its not compatibility with the soundblaster. Im taking it to someone i think tommorrow or tuesday to see what they can do - but I think it may be an irq issue or a driver issue with the video card --- just something with the video card in general. Thanx for the help - I will keep you posted.