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Name: ventura
Date: November 5, 2004 at 09:28:36 Pacific
OS: windows xp sp2
CPU/Ram: 667mghz. 320megs
Comment:

My computer has been freezing up quite frequently lately, what could be causing this? Could it be a program running in the backround, I don't know



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Response Number 1
Name: Grok Lobster
Date: November 5, 2004 at 09:41:51 Pacific
Reply:

Is your hard drive getting full? Have you added hardware lately? Does it unfreeze?


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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth
Date: November 5, 2004 at 09:42:19 Pacific
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It's a Gateway, of course lock ups is a part of the bundle. My advice is to run a maintenance after ensuring there are no malicious codes or scumware lurking on the PC. Am also sure that PC rolled outta Gateway with '98 or ME but that is irrelevant.

0. Up-to-date Virus Scan, Spybot, Ad-Aware, Spywareblaster, CrapCleaner are all things you should never be without.

1. Check your startup items (msconfig) for TSR's or memory hogs and disable them.

2. Do you run scandisk...cough...chdsk and defrag as needed and is your OS bogged down by cluttered registry.

Go over the above and see if things improve.

-- Always do what you are afraid to do --


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Response Number 3
Name: OiMan
Date: November 5, 2004 at 12:39:47 Pacific
Reply:

Heya ventura,

Overheating hardwares can cause system lock-up as well. Just run some motherboards tool to see if all the temperatures (CPU, motherboard, etc..) are ok.

Regards..


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Response Number 4
Name: brucezc
Date: November 5, 2004 at 13:49:39 Pacific
Reply:

If possible, change memory(RAM) and power supply to try.

Good lucky

Burce


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Response Number 5
Name: cpc2000
Date: November 5, 2004 at 15:37:15 Pacific
Reply:

If you are using nVidia Display card, Windows may freeze. Upgrade the latest display card patch may resolve the problem.


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Response Number 6
Name: ventura
Date: November 6, 2004 at 21:25:21 Pacific
Reply:

Hey Sabertooth, what are TSR's in msconfig?


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Response Number 7
Name: Sabertooth
Date: November 6, 2004 at 22:29:02 Pacific
Reply:

Terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR's) in msconfig are programs that load up at boot and remains in memory until it is needed or otherwise.

To disable TSR's from automatically loading:

Click Start / Run / Type msconfig and press enter.
This will open the "System Configuration Utility" window.
Within this window click the "Startup", uncheck each of the startup tasks you no longer wish to load.

If you are unsure what startup program(s) is responsible try un-checking all of the items and then slowly start checking each of the items until you find the culprit.


-- Always do what you are afraid to do --


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Response Number 8
Name: ventura
Date: November 18, 2004 at 08:49:02 Pacific
Reply:

My computer was still freezing up so I reinstalled windows and it still freezing up, could it be hardware related?


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