Ever since I built my computer 5 months ago, I've had an issue with my computer freezing up. The symptoms arise anywhere from 1 hour after being on to 10 hours after being on, my computer will freeze for 1-2 seconds, unfreeze for 1-2 seconds, then freeze again, etc. etc. It will do this freeze/unfreeze cycle if I leave the computer on and the only way I've been able to fix it is by restarting the machine. If anyone can help me out on this, thanks.
#2 - I'm unsure on that because it will happen even if I leave my computer idling and doing nothing to stress it.
#3 - I'm unsure of the thermal paste but I followed everything exactly right when I built my system so I'm pretty sure I put everything together correctly though.
sorry for this really late response guys but I just got a hold of thermal paste, removed my old thermal paste and reapplied it perfectly. This did not resolve the problem and I'm really frustrated at this point. like i've said before, i've already run memtest and my memory proved fine. it's not overheating, checked cpu temp, etc and everything is fine. if anyone knows a fix to this please help me out.
also after doing a lot of searching I found mulitple threads with no fixes in sight....its some type of "stuttering" and the only fix i've seen was someone who said they unchecked write caching on their hard drive, i'll test that out. anyone think this would fix it?
Have any programs that require or are creating logs. Sometimes BOClean or my firewall creates logs at specific and weird circumstances that make huge files, like 200meg logs and lags the crap outa the comp.
Check your processor temp, Run some MEM test, HD test, Processor and Video Card tests, check your power supply, see if its not too hot, reset your BIOS, Back Up all your documents and format and re-install windows, dont put too much thermal paste, get an eraser and use it on your memory!
Thats all you can do.
You can pay a player to play source, but you can't make him like it.
#20, do you know those white erasers that are used for school tasks?? ... Get one of them and use it on the memory contacts (those shinny and gold things on the memory).
And try to download: Memtest86 v1.70, put it on a CD and boot from it... it will test your memory.!
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You can pay a player to play source, but you can't make him like it.
I had something like this with my old computer, sorry for bad english Everytime i was closing my computer,when i was turning on my computer it take like 1 minute to like 2-3hour and it freeze and i was i need to press on the RESTART button on my case not on start and restart then it was okay
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1) See if it does it with your cd-rom unplugged 2) Run a temp file cleaner (CCleaner) and defrag. 3) Anything unusual in the eventlog around the time it freezes? It sounds like a harddrive or sofware related issue.
#25 i'll see if anything unusual is happening next time it freezes(can't guarantee when that will be because it happens randomly). After that I'll see if it happens with the cd-rom unplugged. I'll also run my CCleaner and defrag but I've done that before when I was trying anything to fix this and it didn't do anything, I'll try it again anyways.
#22 i ran memtest and nothing was wrong with my memory again.
ok well it just froze up and I was looking at my task manager, the cpu usage jumps from 0% to 21% and back over and over again, causing the freezing. I already knew that though because someone else described the exact same thing on a different forum. Nothing fishy was running in the background and I had nothing running so....I'll defrag it tonight and run CCleaner, if i get the freezing again I'll try it with my cd-rom unplugged.
if you think it's a software issue you could download FileMon and see exactly what the hard drive is doing... the only time i've had the same kind of problem was because my hard drive was about to die and eventually it starts clicking loudly and kapoot! so backup all your important stuff just in case
Computer freezing
#3 - I'm unsure of the thermal paste but I followed everything exactly right when I built my system so I'm pretty sure I put everything together correctly though.
#4 - Memtest showed no errors.
#10 what video card do you have?
I have the corsair 650 lol
also after doing a lot of searching I found mulitple threads with no fixes in sight....its some type of "stuttering" and the only fix i've seen was someone who said they unchecked write caching on their hard drive, i'll test that out. anyone think this would fix it?
Thats all you can do.
Get one of them and use it on the memory contacts (those shinny and gold things on the memory).
And try to download: Memtest86 v1.70, put it on a CD and boot from it... it will test your memory.!
=]
I'm getting a tech guy to look at it.
sorry for bad english
Everytime i was closing my computer,when i was turning on my computer it take like 1 minute to like 2-3hour and it freeze and i was i need to press on the RESTART button on my case not on start and restart then it was okay
2) Run a temp file cleaner (CCleaner) and defrag.
3) Anything unusual in the eventlog around the time it freezes? It sounds like a harddrive or sofware related issue.
#22 i ran memtest and nothing was wrong with my memory again.
#23 thanks.
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