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| Thread ID: 66329 | 2006-02-19 05:50:00 | Unknown computer freeze problem is back! | AJFen (9829) | Press F1 |
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| 432064 | 2006-02-19 05:50:00 | My computer is a 1.6 ghz P4, 1gig ram, Geforce FX 5600 Ultra and whatnot. It used to freeze all the time, generally to the tune of 1+ times a day. Sometimes it wouldn't freeze in a day, other times it would do it 3 times. It mainly happened when I ran an application, such as a game, but not necessarily. Sometimes it would lock up at desktop as well, although not as commonly. Everything on screen would simply freeze and it would be remain frozen until I restarted. Often there would be an endless eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee in the headphones. I tried everything from drivers to diagnosis tools, installed a fan, changed the power supply, cleaned the inside, defragged, and I think I reformatted/reinstalled windows. Nothing helped. I pretty much gave up. Fast forward a bit and all of a sudden it isn't crashing anymore. It didn't crash a single time for about 10 months. I had not changed anything at all. It just seemingly stopped crashing out of nowhere, shortly after a thunderstorm I do believe. Now its back. Same EXACT problem. I had installed a firewall, used Advanced Windows Care and a slew of antivirus/adware programs prior to it doing this. I removed all of that and fixed/restored the registry to what it was, and the problem has continued. I'm not sure what those programs could have messed up (if anything at all), and I have no idea what fixed it in the first place back then. What could have triggered this problem to come back and haunt me? Does anyone have any way of diagnosing what could be causing my crashes? If I could get this fixed or at least figured out I would REALLY appreciate it. |
AJFen (9829) | ||
| 432065 | 2006-02-19 10:29:00 | No help but it's encouraging to see someone else having hair-pulling out comp problems. I'm trying to get a freind's machine going and it's got me beat. Random freezes and crashes, some BSODs. I"ll get it what seems to be right. Re-boot three times and try it out on the net as well and all's fine. Go to bed next morning it's custard. Did 99% of a housecall scan and it crashed. Anyway, good luck with yr problem. Sure sounds odd. Not hardware, not software. Interesting machines. :D |
mark c (247) | ||
| 432066 | 2006-02-19 16:41:00 | run 'memtest' or similar to check the ram...... | drcspy (146) | ||
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