MSI P45 Diamond LED / Power issue

My system has been freezing randomly since i've built it over a month ago now.  I know for SURE that it is a hardware issue.  My current thought is that it is a power supply issue.  I can get the system to freeze by simultaneously running Prime95 and SuperPi.  But it doesn't freeze when they run independently.  I noticed on the Motherboard that LED1 and LED2 are on...  According to the manual.  LED 1 "Lights when system is on standby mode", and LED 2 "Lights when system is on power-on".  According to those definitions, it doesnt seem right that they are both on at the same time... any suggestions?
Thanks!
Edit: if I run super-pi a little longer, it does freeze the system by itself.  Prime95 does not. I ran that for over 26 hours, and it was fine.

Quote from: IcedZ on 06-October-08, 09:45:09
My system has been freezing randomly since i've built it over a month ago now.  I know for SURE that it is a hardware issue.  My current thought is that it is a power supply issue.  I can get the system to freeze by simultaneously running Prime95 and SuperPi.  But it doesn't freeze when they run independently.  I noticed on the Motherboard that LED1 and LED2 are on...  According to the manual.  LED 1 "Lights when system is on standby mode", and LED 2 "Lights when system is on power-on".  According to those definitions, it doesnt seem right that they are both on at the same time... any suggestions?
Thanks!
Edit: if I run super-pi a little longer, it does freeze the system by itself.  Prime95 does not. I ran that for over 26 hours, and it was fine.
I won't be surprised say if you run prime95 or Super PI and your rig hang as the above utility is mean for stress testing the stability of a rig, especially for those who intend to overclock their system. To have a stablising system when one OC, one need to fine tune a couple of feature, either by upping the vcore, as well as ensure upping the processor clock bit by bit and also make sure that the temp of the rig is cooling enough. And your hs and psu is able to withstand the stressing plus OC
Alternatively if you're not OC, you needn't need to run those utility. So back to my question, does your rig freeze only when you run the above, say if not running the above, i assume your rig run fine? If that's the case there isn't anything wrong with your rig.... lastly are you OC?

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