I/O Intensive Crashes

[justaguy]

I have been having some system instability lately-mostly in I/O intensive apps like ripping/composing DVD's and actually crashed during defrag last night. System starts to reboot and when it gets to OS load, I get NON-SYSTEM DISK error. If I shut down w/ power button, boots up fine, and runs decent afterward. I'm wondering if this might be a HDD wearing out, or CPU/PSU heat issue as the room with the comp. in it is much hotter in summer than in winter. I haven't tried reducing my OC yet, because I really want to keep the speed up if possible. What do you all think?

[Signature Sux now that all my stuff's old-Damn!] Athlon XP 1900 (11x200) 42C (Load w/AX-7 & 8cm Tornado) - MSI K7N2 Delta - Corsair Value PC3200 - Gainward GF3 @ 250/550 - 80Gb WD 8Mb Cache -

 

[endyen]

Do you have motherboard monitor? Check your voltages, then check the capacitors around your chip.
A problem that is resolved with a hard reboot is often capacitor related. The problem can be in the psu, or on the mobo.

 

[Crashman]

During CPU-intensive non-graphics apps, I've seen the CPU overheat, less frequently I've seen the RAM overheat, and once in a while I've seen a power supply overheat (but usually with a power off). Very rarely I've also seen the controller chips on hard drives overheat, stopping access.

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[justaguy]

I'm thinking it's simple CPU overheat now. When I turn the Tornado down to 3200 RPM or so, the CPU heat goes up to 52-3 within a minute. I am assuming since a DVD authoring takes longer than that it gets even hotter and crashes. Guess I'll just have to shut the door of that room and let the Tornado scream away at 6000 RPM to keep the TBred cool-like in my sig. Thanx fellas.

EDIT: Yeah, CPU heat for sure. I can hardly hear myself think as I type this, but currently ripping CD's with 42C CPU temp, stable voltages and no issues.

[Signature Sux now that all my stuff's old-Damn!] Athlon XP 1900 (11x200) 42C (Load w/AX-7 & 8cm Tornado) - MSI K7N2 Delta - 2x256 Corsair Value PC3200 - Gainward GF3 @ 250/550 - 80Gb WD 8Mb Cache - <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by justaguy on 06/28/04 11:50 PM.</EM></FONT></P>