Any thoughts? Chuck the 80 year Old dog—still learning new tricks! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 3. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Saurabh Yadav. Keep the post updated! Please provide additional information about your system:. Since outdated video drivers are a popular item contributing to malfunctions, provide that information too:.
For video driver information, expand the Components, click Display, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here. There will be some personal information like System Name and User Name , and whatever appears to be private information to you, just delete it from the pasted information. If your system stops responding, hangs or freezes and you can't figure out why, you can force a Blue Screen of Death BSOD which will create a crash dump file that you can analyze and see what is running at the point of the freeze and get some ideas that do not involve guesswork.
The feature is built in to XP specifically to diagnose the problem when a system hangs, freezes or stops responding. This will eliminate trying things or guessing about what might be happening maybe.
You will know what is happening, then you can fix it. When the system hangs, there will often not be any indication or clues in the Event Viewer logs, but feel free to look and see if there are any significant event around the time of the failure.
I took the entire system apart and cleaned everything inside thinking again that it might be an over heat problem. The inside of the case and fans are so clean I could eat off of them. I disabled the onboard lan card because I did see 3 errors in the error reports, well actually they were warnings. I placed a D-Link network card inside and will see what happends from there. I will try to put a video card inside sometime later and disable the onboard video on it also.
I hate onboard intergraded stuff on MOBO's. I hope that this has solved the problem, if not there will be an article in the paper what a man was seen dragging his computer from the back of his truck at full speed down the highway. Click to expand I've found that my computer is more likely to restart randomly or give me BSOD when i am playing an online game or offline game.
Ok so i added more RAM. The problem continues. I installed a new video card and the problem continues. I've ordered a new CPU heat sinc with fan and i'm guessing after i install that the problem will most likely still continue. I've read somewhere else on this forum that the power supply and power surges may be involved with this.
I have a watt supply. I havent replaced that or the Hard drive yet. I dont think any of the rest of the peripherals would be causing this problem.
Mmmmm maybe there is something wrong with your board if you try all of your components on a different board and you probably wont have any probs try this out and let me know what happens :darth:. Similar threads. MetaSoc May 25, Windows. Thread starter Desdewd Start date Jul 17, Status This thread has been Locked and is not open to further replies.
The original thread starter may use the Report button to request it be reopened but anyone else with a similar issue should start a New Thread. Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Desdewd Thread Starter. Joined Jul 15, Messages Windows XP A couple of nights ago, out of the blue, my computer started locking up. It's a hard prblem to explain, partly because its effects aren't always consistent, so I'll just give a few examples: I had just turned on my computer within the last 5 minutes.
I then went online using firefox to watch a streaming video. I am able to get a few minutes in before the video suddenly halted; the picture had stopped but the sound kept repeating the same tenth of a second, like a.
The system clock had stopped as well. I have a keyboard with an LCD screen that shows the same time as my computer logitech g15 gaming keyboard, the original one , and it also freezes. I had fullscreen mode enabled so the only thing I could see was the video. I was able to disable the video's fullscreen mode by hitting the escape button. I had two windows of firefox open one was the video and the other was just a webpage and after disabling fullscreen the frozen video was overlayed onto the entirety of both windows and my background.
In other words the image from the frozen video stayed on my screen even after hitting escape, but now I could see the task bar and the outlines of the two windows I can't remember if I could see the icons on my desktop or not or if one of the windows were covering them. I forgot to mention I still am able to move my cursor the ability to move my cursor and the clock freezing are probably the only two constants everytime this "thing" happens but I digress.
When I mouse over the windows on the taskbar and the start menu button it highlights them like normal. But clicking on the windows on the taskbar does not minimize the larger windows.
I am, however, able to open the start menu and highlight and select the all programs tree and it displays everything that it should. But if I try to close out of it, it doesn't do anything. Now when I mouse over the windows on the taskbar it doesn't highlight them and clicking on them does nothing. I keep clicking on the windows and the start menu and after a bit I am able to highlight the windows properly again when I mouse over them.
After this I decided to see whether or not I could open any of the items in the system tray. I was able to bring them up but they didn't load all the way. I then powered it down using the power button. That was the most recent occurence. And by recent occurence I mean the last time I turned on my computer.
So far there have only been a few occasions where I was able to properly shut it down or restart it using the start menu. And for those occasions I was only on for less than 15 minutes. Sometimes it will occur within 10 minutes of turning it on, sometimes it wil be 2 hours. I was able to successfully back up about a gig of data without it locking up, but on the opposite end of the spectrum leaving the computer just sitting idly with no open applications will eventually result in it locking up After a while I began to equate the clock being frozen with the computer being frozen so I can tell the computer has locked up even if nothing is running because the clock has frozen to an earlier time I know this is a lot and I'm jumping from point to point but I can't find very many patterns or consistencies in the lock-up's trigger or consequences so that makes it very hard for me to describe what the problem is so please bear with me.
Also it's 3 in the morning. Usually like with a video or a virus scan the app that I'm running at the time of a lock-up freezes, but with something like a webpage i'm still able to do some stuff. Once, after a lock-up i was still able to type something into a textbox on a forum but when I hit and held backspace it only backspaced one letter.
If I continued to type or backspace, after a while it would stop recieving keyboard input all together. Sometimes I'm able to open the ctrl-alt-del window, sometimes I'm not, sometimes it only partially loads up.
Most of the time after it occurs I am unable to open anything else but that is not always the case though eventually it stops recognizing my commands. Sometimes if I start trying to open too many windows or otherwise give it too much input the computer tower will make a loud, long, and never ending beep.
Everything I downloaded the day it started I have deleted and in some cases shredded using mcafee's shredder It seemed to start when I downloaded media player classic but I got it from cnet and as I said I have since deleted it. Mcafee came up with three warnings about pup's potentially unwanted programs if I understand that correctly but the page I got that from said cnet had heard that from some people and they tested it and it's safe.
I'm pretty sure I correctly cleaned out my temp and cache files at least once used mcafee program to do it Since it's so late when I'm typing this I'll just list a few main points here: Everytime a lock-up occurs or whatever you want to call it I end up having to do a hard shutdown holding the power button for five seconds It seems like it hasn't gotten worse since it started but it hasn't gotten better avg.
Sorry if it's really confusing but any help would be appreciated. Officer Dibble. Joined Oct 24, Messages How old is the system? Did you buy it or build it?
Is you anti-virus software up to date? Which one are you using? Have you tried using any of the following applications to remove spyware? Malwarebytes, Lavasofts Ad-aware, or Super Anti-spyware? It could be that something is overheating, is your system over-clocked? If you had a thermometer in the room you keep the pc in, what would you say is the ambient temperature?
Is there a lot of clutter, paperwork, etc, around the computer, is it in a cupboard of sorts? The PSU fan at the back, does it have a few inches clearance from the [wall] at the back? Is there an internal case fan?
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