computer locks up
 

why does it lock up?

I blew all the dust out of it, made sure the fan on the cpu works good, changed the power supply. Its not doing anything new or cpu-intensive. No viruses or spyware. It will run for maybe 30 minutes, or sometimes for a couple hours, then it freezes.

Any ideas?

format c:

bad memory

bad memory or possibly bad sector on teh hard drive.....

I'm afraid it will lock up in the middle of that

any way to test the memory?

Sounds like a conflict?..did you download something recently?

http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...ng=en&pageid=1

Run Everest and you'll be able to get a gleen if its hardware related.

Mr Pheer dust can sometimes get into pci slots I have found. I was once replacing a graphics card and I blew all the dust out(so I thought) but some got into the slot and when I put the card back in the connection was poor and my pc locked up. So I don't know if this will help but my suggestion is to make sure your slots are clean from dust and all cards/ram is inserted and seated properly.

Good luck man , hope you get it going soon.

tuner wash

nope.. I never even load the browser on this machine.. its had the same function since 2001.

2001? errr. might be time to upgrade something

KRL, nice link bro, thanks. Im gonna use this on all my boxes.

mine was doing that and new memory worked

Indeed. Everest rocks. Most comprehensive program I've found to tell you every detail about everything in your PC.

And the best part of all its FREEWARE! :winkwink:

now the damn thing is rebooting itself and then freezing

guess I'll turn it off

Fatal Operator error!

Great link, thanks :thumbsup

If it's not the heat, check the voltage, if its not the voltage Bad memory :2 cents: get memtest86 and check :thumbsup

I had this problem with my WinME Compaq... the hard drive (pretty sure that's what it was) was grinding really bad one day and it was never the same after that. It would run and then lock up out of nowhere, so I'm guessing surface damage. It was under warantee at the time too but I was too lazy to bring it in... so I left it like that. I still boot it up once in a blue moon.

At what point does it lockup??

Random points? After 4 mins?

It can be Powersupply => Memory sticks => Shorting on the motherboard => Video card => Harddrive is going bad => Cd burner has a conflict with a .dll while trying to load (nero did this)