I am having problems with my computer for last few days. You can also see my post in hardware forum 'computer too dim at start' which i posted a few days back. My problem is that the computer is freezing a lot. There is no time or event that I can associate with the freezing process but mostly it hangs within first 15 minutes of starting.Also there are no error messages.Everything freezes and I have to reboot by shutting the computer from power button. I have checked with adaware and spybot. Tracking cookies were detected and removed. Mostly when it hangs I am busy browsing the web but this time when it hanged I was at the desktop. I saw that a square shaped area appeared of about 1 inch size besides the icons on desktop. It was dotted and dots were of grey, black and white colours but in the centre a few purple coloured dots were also present. The moment it appeared the computer freezed. I have seen this square for two times now and each time the computer hanged. I have also checked with avg antivirus but it reported no viruses. Please help me what can I do with this. I dont even know if it is a hardware or software problem and how should I investigate or cure this.

It sounds like your video card is dieing. Tomorrow the Stars!

Yes either that or your anti-virus has started conflicting with it. In low memory computers the video card will sometimes conflict with the ant-virus program over ram You could try to free up some ram from the various programs or better yet add another 256MB. In The Matters Of Style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, Stand Like A Rock

Go here to learn how to use the event manager. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/ http://computervitals.com/

did you try a system restore yet? My PC was really stalling using 100% resources, so I did a system restore back to when it was fine...VOILA...(touch wood) I'm back to good performance again, I just had to reinstall the criticals again. BUT, it also sounds like you may have some Malware on your PC. Try the restore 1st and then check for spy & Adware Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks