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At my wits end of this problem
Well here's my problem, my computer hangs up randomly. Now I don't mean bsod or crash in general, I mean a total system freeze, mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc, stops responding and they freeze in position on the screen wherever they are. This usually happens once a day, but has happened up to 3 or 4 times. When I restart the event viewer sees no errors nor does my system report an error of any kind.
System Overview OS: XP pro 5.1 build 2600, service pack 1 Motherboard: Soyo P4VTE Bios: 7.00T Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz, hyperthreaded RAM: 1024 DDR Elixer Direct X: 9c Graphics Card: nVIDIA 5700LE 256mb ram, driver v. 7.1.8.9 H.D.D.: Maxtor 160GB, 5700 RPM, 8MB cache If A HijackThis log is needed I can post one What I have tried already 1) Changing my video driver 2) Swapping ram, using memtest 86 first - no errors found 3) Removing Norton 4) Removing Service Pack 2 5) Removing all programs not default to windows 6) System restore 7) Switching IDE cables 8) Adjusting the hyperthreading option, agp control, and ram control in bios, they are now at their default 9) Searched microsoft for a knowledge based article 10) Did a search in general on every forum I could find 11) Defragmented 12) Used the checkdisk (chkdsk) utility, "chkdsk /r /f" - found no bad sectors 13) Checked power, it's just fine 14) Did a virus, adware, spyware, and malware check, found nothing 15) Adjusted unnecessary options in Services in msconfig, turned them off, then reset them back to default 16) Backed up registry and made adjustments with ccleaner - great program by the way 17) Used norton win doctor to try and find any problems 18) Checked for IRQ conflict 19) Well I probably did more but I can't remember any at the moment Also, my firefox browser has begun to lag lately as the freezes continue, it could be a seperate issue but if it helps. . . Any help is greatly appreciated. Last edited by aminon; August 11th, 2005 at 09:55 PM. Reason: HJT where it shouldn't be |
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You could try posting a HijackThis log in the Cyber Safety forum, but I see that you already checked for any malicious software. Did you try to use a different mouse or keyboard? Does your computer respond to anything while frozen (such as an external device being plugged in? Do you have a firewall?
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Do you know when it started? Did you install some software immediately beforehand? [a firewall, as suggested above maybe?] Could be some sort of conflict.
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1. You may want to check the Soyo website for a BIOS update. -- although I see their BIOS numbers for the P4VTE are "2aa..", while you show 7.00T ?
2. Uninstall all of your hardware devices and renove the cards. Add one at a time, giving yourself some trial time at each step. Goodluck, -LarryS Last edited by amphi66; August 12th, 2005 at 02:46 AM. |
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I was able to get help from another board already, and it seems my power supply was failing of all things. Using a multimeter, all rails seemed to be ok, using aida32 however showed they were not, which is just baffling. But I switched power supplys and low and behold my computer works like a champ again and aida32 shows my comps power to be where it should be. Thanks for all your input though, if I continue to crash i'll be sure to check back.
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