PC keeps freezing..

Smurfpiss

Ok I havent much information to give you at the moment but basically my pc keeps freezing. No keyboard response, no mouse response, no processing. nothing. all i see is a frozen screen. Usually after a few minutes of starting up.

Ive done disk clean up on both hard drives, neither need defragmenting. It doesn't seem like a virus to me.

Usually it hangs if more than one program is running, (i.e firefox and windows explorer)

Any idea if it could be a hardware problem? or software? Any advice on what steps to take to get a diagnosis?

Cheers.

Ruu_Old

Can you give us some system information, CPU, RAM, etc?

Explosive_Cornflake

Sounds hardware it the screen just freezes. Under XP i assume? It used to happen to me before if i touched my case. Found out after a good long time, that the back of my case bent out a bit, and was pulling my GFX card out of the slot, and any sort of vibration feck it up. You'rs could be anything though. Is the computer dusty inside?

Smurfpiss

Whoops sorry.

Windows XP
Pentium 4 2.8Ghz
512 RAM
256MB Ati Radeon 9550
Segate 200GB drive
Western DIgital 40GB Drive

Checked the pc...Isnt very dusty at all but gave it a blow with the compressed air.
I installed the graphics card a while back and while I didnt check to see it was secure (just there) that could be the case..

Explosive_Cornflake

I'd say the GFX was a freak thing in my case (pun not intended, but hey, lets roll with it)
Get yourself a copy of Speedfan and post your temps.
What wattage is your power supply?

Ruu_Old

Reseat the RAM and graphics card, see if that helps.

Smurfpiss

Explosive_Cornflake wrote:

I'd say the GFX was a freak thing in my case (pun not intended, but hey, lets roll with it)
Get yourself a copy of Speedfan and post your temps.
What wattage is your power supply?

Registering 36C.
It says fan1: 0 RPM HD1:36C
fan2: 0 RPM

Is that normal?


How do I find out the wattage without having to open the case again?

Explosive_Cornflake

You don't
While your in their make sure the cpu fan is spinning, and get as much info about the PSU that you can.

Smurfpiss

Ruu wrote:

Reseat the RAM and graphics card, see if that helps.

Will do Ruu. Thanks.
I'm going out soon but i'll be back this evening with any progress.
Thanks for your help Ruu and explosive_cornflake.
Really appreciate it.

Smurfpiss

Explosive_Cornflake wrote:

You don't
While your in their make sure the cpu fan is spinning, and get as much info about the PSU that you can.

Ok will do that too. though yeah the fan was spinning. Right talk to you this evening. thanks!