comp freezes when idle?

[Mandown]

It's so weird to say first of all, but my comp freezes sometimes when its just sitting at idle? With load even full it has no problems, no lock-ups in games, but if it is just sitting on the desktop sometimes it freezes and i have to restart. Any ideas?

lol i guess my comp hates sitting doing nothing.:roll:

[Namslas90]

Check your event viewer. Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer > System.

Google the error# Id's in there to figure out the problem.

[erocker]

Do you have cool and quiet enabled? It could be dropping your cpu voltage to become unstable.

[Mandown]

no errors found in system. Cool N' Quiet is off. Not sure what it could be.

Apps have some errors but i know those are not what is doing it. other than that theres no other errors.

[Wile E]

I'd double check your ram. Download and run memtest86+ from a bootable disc, see if your ram is throwing errors.

Second guess is it needs more vcore.

[Mandown]

Did memtest and everything was good, but i did go in BIOS and saw my ram was @ 400mhz so i changed it to 333mhz. Didn't realize i had it on that, but its probably why i was locking up because MSI says it might be unstable at 400mhz if all slots are filled.

so far i have no lock-ups.

[Widjaja]

Does it do this at stock speeds?

[CrackerJack]

check your temps on everthing: cpu, gpu and ram. or even hard drive