hi all,
my desktop computer is a custom build about 4 years old with the exception of a few peripherals and has this problem: In that in the middle of use, it will crash after 2-8 hours of use. It appears to be a hardware related issue because once it crashes, It will crash on reboot and continue to attempt to reboot itself, over and over until I turn it off by holding in the power button. It then won't start successfully again until I wait about an hour. From this I deduced it could a be heat related issue (overheating), yet the initial crash after 2-8 hours of use is usually from a blue screen with an error message stating my motherboard's bios is not "Fully ACPI compliant."
Off the top of my head, my desktops specs are:
500W Antec PSU
2.66Ghz Dual-Core AMD Kuda Black Edition 7750 x64 proc. (AM2+ socket)
Radeon 4870 1GB GDDR5 Ram Graphics Card.
Biostar MSI 770G ATX motherboard(bought refurbished, probably a mistake).
2x2GB 800MHz Ram.
500 GB WD hard drive
1.5TB WD Black Caviar hard drive
2 HP DVD-RW drives
I don't have particularly fancy cooling (air cooling) although the CPU fan is not stock - it's maybe a 20 dollar upgrade. And I have 2 large case fans and 3 medium size fans.
It's was a good tower although dated and could used some upgrades. As such, I recently bought a new motherboard, 6-core CPU and RAM partly for the sake of upgrading and partly in hopes it would not have the failed BIOS setting. I've had a handful of issues with this BIOS and motherboard for a while, although I've always been able to get an install of windows or ubuntu to reach a stable setting. But this error seems much more serious and I'm just at a loss.
is this a heating or bios issue? I can't tell from my current set of information. Any ideas?
It's become apparent after starting writing this though that I need to get temp data, which I will diagnose and add to this post as soon as my desktop will turn back on and I can get some diagnostic tools working.
Thanks.
my desktop computer is a custom build about 4 years old with the exception of a few peripherals and has this problem: In that in the middle of use, it will crash after 2-8 hours of use. It appears to be a hardware related issue because once it crashes, It will crash on reboot and continue to attempt to reboot itself, over and over until I turn it off by holding in the power button. It then won't start successfully again until I wait about an hour. From this I deduced it could a be heat related issue (overheating), yet the initial crash after 2-8 hours of use is usually from a blue screen with an error message stating my motherboard's bios is not "Fully ACPI compliant."
Off the top of my head, my desktops specs are:
500W Antec PSU
2.66Ghz Dual-Core AMD Kuda Black Edition 7750 x64 proc. (AM2+ socket)
Radeon 4870 1GB GDDR5 Ram Graphics Card.
Biostar MSI 770G ATX motherboard(bought refurbished, probably a mistake).
2x2GB 800MHz Ram.
500 GB WD hard drive
1.5TB WD Black Caviar hard drive
2 HP DVD-RW drives
I don't have particularly fancy cooling (air cooling) although the CPU fan is not stock - it's maybe a 20 dollar upgrade. And I have 2 large case fans and 3 medium size fans.
It's was a good tower although dated and could used some upgrades. As such, I recently bought a new motherboard, 6-core CPU and RAM partly for the sake of upgrading and partly in hopes it would not have the failed BIOS setting. I've had a handful of issues with this BIOS and motherboard for a while, although I've always been able to get an install of windows or ubuntu to reach a stable setting. But this error seems much more serious and I'm just at a loss.
is this a heating or bios issue? I can't tell from my current set of information. Any ideas?
It's become apparent after starting writing this though that I need to get temp data, which I will diagnose and add to this post as soon as my desktop will turn back on and I can get some diagnostic tools working.
Thanks.