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| Thread ID: 48009 | 2004-08-11 20:14:00 | Computer freezes | caffy (2665) | Press F1 |
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| 260676 | 2004-08-11 20:14:00 | Hey, my new problem with the computer is that after a while of using it (could be 30mins, 1 hour, not sure how long) it freezes in a particular way . I am able to click on start, and open up the programme menu but thats it, nothing else will open . shortcuts on the desktop won't open either . Using WinXP Pro . Some of you might remember that recently I disabled two start-up processes called tea-timer and fork great programme (which I didn't know what they were) . I have since enabled them again because (tea-timer is a part of spybot) after disabling them, this problem started . But it's still happening (freezing) . I've done a AVG scan which found no viruses . What do I check next? thanks, caffy |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 260677 | 2004-08-11 20:36:00 | forgot to mention that I just did an ad-aware scan, and it found a registry error . Not sure how I can check what the error was? |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 260678 | 2004-08-11 20:45:00 | Okay, I just had to restart the computer, because it froze again. That was about 30 minutes this time... | caffy (2665) | ||
| 260679 | 2004-08-11 21:21:00 | And yet another restart.... | caffy (2665) | ||
| 260680 | 2004-08-11 21:24:00 | Hi caffy, You still dual booting with Win98? If yes, does it do the same thing in Win98?? If no, try disabling all items from startup in msconfig and see how it goes. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 260681 | 2004-08-11 22:05:00 | Hi caffy, I was reading some of your recent posts and it looks like your PC has undergone a few changes recently - I believe you have started downloading MS patches, you've been playing with spybot and zone alarm and there was a fork programme that you disabled. I think there might be some sort of conflict going on here. Have you installed or uninstalled any other software recently? Have you run a registry / dll checker? Did you find out what the fork programme was? Have you made any hardware changes recently such as more RAM, another HDD etc? A computer freeze could be many many things so this is going to be a process of elimination. | andrew93 (249) | ||
| 260682 | 2004-08-11 22:43:00 | How do i do a registry check? ZoneAlarm and Spybot - haven't been playing with those (apart from using spybot to check the PC) - just updated ZA a few days ago . Never found out what that fork programme was - although after disabling it, the comp started to freeze . Enabling it again hasnt solved this problem though . THe programmes that I have downloaded recently are: new version of Ad Aware; Gaim; update of Zone Alarm; IrfanView . . . Have not made any changes to the hardware . cyabro - yes I still dualboot with win98, I will check this when I am at home - PC is so stuffed I've had to go to someone else's place to do my assignment :( Is it safe to disable all these things in the start-up list? Just a bit aprehensive of doing this, because after touching it last time, everything's stuffed up . |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 260683 | 2004-08-11 23:05:00 | Yea sort of safe :D You won't have ZA or AVG running so disconnect from the internet so you don't get zapped by a virus or something. Then see if it still freezes. If not, start putting the startup programs back in one at a time and testing again each time. If it still freezes you might need to test it in Safe Mode. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 260684 | 2004-08-12 03:19:00 | I just checked in win 98, and it doesnt appear to freeze in there (left it on for 45 mins)...so back into XP. Am just about to disable all these things in the start up list and see how it goes. |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 260685 | 2004-08-12 03:52:00 | OK, so we can be 99.99% sure it's not a hardware fault. | CYaBro (73) | ||
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