wyantm06 Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 Well since 2 nights ago my PC started to freeze for no reason all by itself. I come home today trying to pull the screen saver off but it was froze. The PC was still on but froze. It has been doing this a lot lately. I scanned for spyware and viruses and it found nothing. I did some temperature testing and was told they were pretty normal. Can I get any help to why this would possibly be doing this to me? I always have problems, its making me pretty mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 did you make any changes that you can think of over the past few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted December 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 Just installing software wise. Like I installed some software which tells you your internal temperatures (I forgot the name of it) and I installed a HUB software. All which I uninstalled the other night. It started freezing when files were being shared in a HUB, no one was downloading them they were just adding to my list to be shared. I exited it while it was sharing and it froze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 does it do it in safemode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted December 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 does it do it in safemode? Don't know. Should I just run safe mode all night and see if it happens? What does it mean if it does not in safe mode btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 Don't know. Should I just run safe mode all night and see if it happens? What does it mean if it does not in safe mode btw. yes run try it in safe mode. if it does not do it in safemode then that means its something installed on your computer, if it does then eather the scrren saver files are messed up or its a hardware issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted December 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 If it were over heating wouldn't it shut the PC off? Not leave it on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 If it were over heating wouldn't it shut the PC off? Not leave it on? it might, or it might not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted December 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 Ok I am in safe mode now. Btw the last two times it froze were while burning a dvd in Nero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki123 Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 I had this problem before, it was the hdd going bad, listen carefully next time it freezes for a "clak" sort of sound. if you hear that each time the PC freezes, its probably the hdd... sigh, all the data I lost on my old hdd -__- good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted December 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 I had this problem before, it was the hdd going bad, listen carefully next time it freezes for a "clak" sort of sound. if you hear that each time the PC freezes, its probably the hdd... sigh, all the data I lost on my old hdd -__- good luck! Wow this sucks. I just replaced a 250 Gig Western Digital that broke, and bought this one less than a month ago. How the heck do I keep going through HDD like this? wow...I am done with computers seriosuly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 Where are you getting these hardrives from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted December 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 Where are you getting these hardrives from? 1 was from Geeks.com over a year ago, which crapped out last month. 2nd one I bought at Sams Club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 1 was from Geeks.com over a year ago, which crapped out last month. 2nd one I bought at Sams Club. There you go, how can you expect to get good technology at Sams Club, and geeks.com is a lot of refurb stuff so you never really can be sure what your're getting. In other words buy from a place like newegg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted December 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 There you go, how can you expect to get good technology at Sams Club, and geeks.com is a lot of refurb stuff so you never really can be sure what your're getting. In other words buy from a place like newegg. what's it matter if I bought it at Sams Club or not? The damn thing was brand new in the box, its from Western Digital. So I see no difference. All I know is I am done with computers. After this one craps out, good bye all. This is total BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 I'll take your computer when your done with it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki123 Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 well, doesnt really mater where he bought it, hell he couldve had bought if from a hobo, its the strain the hdd has to go trough, for example, mass dling would make the hard drive go crazy, I know, thats what happend to me >_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 well, doesnt really mater where he bought it, hell he couldve had bought if from a hobo, its the strain the hdd has to go trough, for example, mass dling would make the hard drive go crazy, I know, thats what happend to me >_< Yea, maybe the hashing was too much for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki123 Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 how would you know >_<, but yea, between hashing, encoding, storage, dling etc etc, not even a zero fill format was able to recover it. >_< darn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted December 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 Well I took the side off and it was clogged with black on the CPU and heat sink. I went to Wal-mart and bought compressed air and blew it all out. PC seems to run quieter, but I don't know if that was the issue. I hope my HDD is not crapping out again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki123 Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 well, if it doesnt freeze anymore, then that would have been the problem, although it would be a mystery why it did that just because of dirt... unless it was touchin the cpu pins.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 Or could've been overheating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 layers of dust cause computers to overheat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted December 12, 2006 CID Share Posted December 12, 2006 layers of dust cause computers to overheat You mean just cause they can not get any cool air to breathe?? (kidding) Aircooled means cool air required. Or air compressor if you have one will do. Lower the outlet pressure though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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