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Okay, let's revisit this quickly.
Memory seems to be fine. Ran a program to test it and it come back fine. Ran the computer with just one chip and then the other, no difference. It still had random freezes.
I'm starting to seriously think it is heat related. How hot should my heat sink be on the CPU? I ask because it is my understanding that the chips run pretty hot and the heatsink should have a significant amount of heat to it as well. The heatsink on my vid card is hot, almost to the point of being uncomfortable to touch. The heatsink on my CPU however is barely above room temp. I can reach in right now and touch it without worrying. I just don't see how that little fan can cool it that much. My thoughts are that it is not touching the CPU for some reason so it is not bleeding off the heat like it should. Does this sound right?
If I can get this fixed I won't have to replace it (which I don't really have the money to do right now) Other wise it has to go. I can't have it freezing on me every hour or so and then taking 4 or 5 tries to restart it. And God help me when I'm coding and don't get to save my code before it freezes. I know my neighbors are tired of hearing my screams.
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