Please help, my PC freezes

[detotoky]

Hi everyone,

 

I wonder if you could help me with my problem.

 

During the last week, while playing a game or installing a program, my Pc keeps freezing and all I can do is restart it.

I've scanned it, no viruses detected. The problem persists.

 

Could anyone help me and tell me what could it be???

 

Please excuse my English.

 

Best regards, Toto

[Guest Wolfeymole]

What are your system specifications for that machine ie; memory and cpu size and what game/s are you trying to play?

[detotoky]

Hi Wolfeymole thx for replying so fast.

 

I have a weak Pentium 4 CPU 1.6 GHz

512 RAM

Windows XP Professional SP3

 

I play Counter Strike 1.6, but the problem persists not only in game...

It freezes while running Photoshop or other program or watching football online...

[DirtyPolo]

Hey detotoky

 

do you have any USB devices attached?

 

If so, please disconnect them and try a task that normally ends up in a freeze and let us know what happens.

[detotoky]

Hi DirtyPolo

 

Hey detotoky

 

do you have any USB devices attached?

 

If so, please disconnect them and try a task that normally ends up in a freeze and let us know what happens.

 

I don't have any USB devices attached... I used a card reader, but it was a long time ago...

 

any suggestions ?? :(

[DirtyPolo]

is your RAM made up of 2 x 256 sticks or 1 x 512?

[detotoky]

is your RAM made up of 2 x 256 sticks or 1 x 512?

 

 

2 x 256

[DirtyPolo]

Okay,

 

if you are fine with going into the case, can you take out one of the sticks and then try boot up,

 

If it doesnt boot, or even if it does, please take that ram stick out and put the other one in and try boot up again.

 

Let us know the results :)

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Afterwards open Command Prompt and type chkdsk c: /f

 

Note the space between the colon and the forward slash.

 

You will get a message saying that chkdsk cannot be run as the volume is in use and would you like it to run on boot up? Press Yes.

[detotoky]

Okay,

 

if you are fine with going into the case, can you take out one of the sticks and then try boot up,

 

If it doesnt boot, or even if it does, please take that ram stick out and put the other one in and try boot up again.

 

Let us know the results :)

 

 

when I took out one of the RAM sticks it didn't boot, the screen was black.

when I took out the second stick was the same thing except that was coming a "Peeeee" sound out of the case when a hit power...

when I booted with both sticks it started loading and suddenly appeared a blue screen saying smtg about an error with the hardware and I must check if it is properly installed ...

I restarted the PC and it booted normally

[detotoky]

Afterwards open Command Prompt and type chkdsk c: /f

 

Note the space between the colon and the forward slash.

 

You will get a message saying that chkdsk cannot be run as the volume is in use and would you like it to run on boot up? Press Yes.

 

 

I've done c: scan for errors. what else?

[Guest Wolfeymole]

In the report that it presented did you notice if there were any bad sectors?

[detotoky]

In the report that it presented did you notice if there were any bad sectors?

 

 

0 on bad sectors...

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Ok switch it off and unplug it then take the side off and give it a good clean out with a can of compressed air especially around the heatsink and heatsink fan.

[detotoky]

Ok switch it off and unplug it then take the side off and give it a good clean out with a can of compressed air especially around the heatsink and heatsink fan.

 

 

I've read a similar topic where the solution was a good clean up, I've done it yesterday and no changes till now.

 

Any other solutions? :confused:

[BeeCeeBee]

During the last week, while playing a game or installing a program, my Pc keeps freezing and all I can do is restart it.

I've scanned it, no viruses detected.

 

Go back to the beginning please. What have you been downloading and what scans did you perform?

[detotoky]

Go back to the beginning please. What have you been downloading and what scans did you perform?

 

I've installed the OS 4 days ago, all drivers... for NVIDIA I've tried the old ones and the new ones...

 

The problem persisted. I tried to scan the PC with Windows Live on care but the PC kept blocking while performing the scan. I did a full scan with Avast when booting, after that I scanned with upgraded Kaspersky.

 

Checked the temp of the HDD & CPU with Everest and it was normal, no more then 43 degrees.

 

In msconfig witched off all programs from start up...

 

Scanned PC for errors and fixed them with Error Repair Pro.

 

now I don't know what else to do...

[BeeCeeBee]

Is this a new OS for this machine or was it reinstalled?

[detotoky]

Is this a new OS for this machine or was it reinstalled?

 

The problem appeared before I installed the OS 4 days ago.

It was on this machine, I formatted c: and installed the OS again....

[BeeCeeBee]

It just strikes me as counterproductive not to mention that you did a reformat and installed or reinstalled an Operating System 4 days ago until the 17th post on the problem.

 

What else have you tried that has gone unmentioned?

[detotoky]

It just strikes me as counterproductive not to mention that you did a reformat and installed or reinstalled an Operating System 4 days ago until the 17th post on the problem.

 

What else have you tried that has gone unmentioned?

 

 

sorry for that, my brain doesn't work properly :( cause I didn't sleep last night reading different posts on different forums...

 

I've done so far all that was mentioned in this topic , nothing more...

 

could it be because of my video card? it's GeForge MX 440.... not much, but it's all I have...

Till now I haven't had any problems with it, playing games, browsing or using/installing programs ...

Edited January 26, 2009 by detotoky

[BeeCeeBee]

If you did a full format and the hd was cleaned and if there is nothing dodgy about the OS and if it was properly installed and if you did not reinstall whatever may have caused the problem in the first place then it is probably a hardware issue after all.

 

Just a lot of "ifs" that make the problem hard to pin down.

 

How did it perform immediately after the installation and before you introduced old data and files back onto the harddrive.

[Dalo Harkin]

What size monitor are you trying to run the game with?

 

The spec you have is extremely low - I would have thought you would be lucky to get 1024x768 as a maximum res with all the advanced settings turned off within the game.

 

What speed internet do you have?

[detotoky]

What size monitor are you trying to run the game with?

 

The spec you have is extremely low - I would have thought you would be lucky to get 1024x768 as a maximum res with all the advanced settings turned off within the game.

 

What speed internet do you have?

 

 

I have a Samsung SyncMaster 755 DFX running at 100 Mhz. The resolution is 1024x768, the same is in the CS...

 

You must understand that the PC freezes not only when I play the game...

 

Which part of my hardware could cause such problem? how can I check if everything works like it should, without bugs (from hardware)

[BeeCeeBee]

Right click on my computer and choose manage from the drop down box. Open your device manager (listed on the left) and open all the little pluses that you see and check for warning icons that may appear next to a device.