Freezing after five mintues of use

[dcali001]

I have an X3 with a 1.6 xbox. Wire install. Everything worked great for a week, but all of a sudden no video or audio. The box is still on, so I don't think it's overheating.

I rebooted, things were fine for five minutes, then same thing. Now, this happens every time. Sometimes five minutes, sometimes it freezes at startup. What I'm doing doesn't seem to matter. I can leave it in the x3 bios screen, and it'll just freeze.

Booting to m$ dash works fine. Just to be certian I left a game running for 2 hours with no problem. Rebooted to x3 and it froze.

I have tried replacing my hdd with the stock drive, using my friend's x3 and both result in a freeze.

Could my soldering be bad even if it's not fragging? Any help is appreciated.

 

[RoaZtedPuppy]

please tell me you had insulated the alternat 5v connector? and that you had reconnected ur fan to ur mobo

 

[dcali001]

Yes to both questions.

 

[RoaZtedPuppy]

eyg!!!!!

 

[XCronus]

its the soldering......check your lpc........

 

[dcali001]

If it was the LPC board, wouldn't it frag?

 

[XCronus]

not necessarily

i think it may be some dodgy connection

thing about it......electricity heats component.....heat causes component to expand.......expansion causes loss of connection in lpc or elsewhere

 

[roloboy]

i had the same problem ...check to see if u forgot to plug in the fan!!

 

[michael816]

if it flashes orange (I heard someone say that) then its probabley the fan.

 

[dcali001]

The fan is plugged in and continues to run after the system freezes. I read somewhere that a 7200rpm hard drive could generate enough heat to mess up the soldering job. Could that really happen? I'd like to exhaust all of my options before resoldering, but I'm running out of ideas. Thanks for the help.

 

[Xmaster666]

no a 7200 rpm hd cant mess up the soldering, make sure u have a solid solder contact!!! try cleaning ur power supply and whole case of dust with compressed air can.

 

[zapco]

ck3 usb driver install help

Im trying to install the ck3 usb driver. I have dl the new all in one package and ran the exe. I then plug in the ck3 and usb cable. The pc then recignises that it need drivers and starts to install them, but then Iget this error

" Cannot install hardware" The inf is invalid.
Any ideas?

Xp 32 bit OS

 

[strucdown]

Re: ck3 usb driver install help

get the drivers from here

http://team-xecuter.com/downloads/


make sure you install the drivers then restart pc before attaching the ck3 pro or it wont work

 

[zapco]

Re: ck3 usb driver install help

Thanks midiandy all sorted ...Cheers