My PC is freezing randomly

[khat17]

Have you tried any of the options outlined above that may help you to pinpoint where the issue is?

[samurailos]

Sounds more like an hardware issue, he needs to give us more info though, such as: hardware specs, softwares, any recent hardware and/or software changes, how long you've had your pc hardware, im thinking it may be a temperature or processor issue though.

[khat17]

Download the Linux UBCD.

Burn it with your favorite burning app or any free burning application.

Boot with it and do a test on your RAM with both WMD and MemTest. Use MemTest 4 or 3 - you don't need to use both versions.

Do a test of your hard drive after to be sure.

Check your PSU rating and use an online calculator or some other application to determine if your PSU is enough for your rig. Also test your PSU if you have a tester or access to one.

Once you've confirmed that the drives, RAM and PSU are good then you can start looking at your software.

I didn't bother with the CPU/board as his machine boots. But I guess he could do a Prime test and see what happens.

Just quoting back my first post in this thread. If you check the first page that it's on you'll see that just about everyone posted that more information is needed - so let's try this again.

1 - Did you do any of the suggestions on the first page and could you post results?
2 - Can you provide more details on the issues based on what the other persons posted in the thread?

You'll have a bit of reading to do to provide the information required, but we all basically want the same things.

Its windows XP. It freeze for a few seconds then it starts running again.

NVIDIA nForce4
AMD Opteron
NVIDIA geforce 7300

This provides little to no details. If you're able to - post a video of the issue. And "freezing and then running again" could be a plethora of things. Hardware issue including board, USB polling rate with multiple connected devices causing momentary freezing, multiple hard drives and those not in use waking up, memory being flushed or optical drive spin up causing a system wait just to name a few. Software issues could be the OS doing background processes, a background process causing issues, an application accessing a drive which is "asleep" (see above in the HW list) or a utility running checks (again a background process).

All of those listed are just a few of what could possibly be wrong. Nothing is definitive because we don't know what, when, why and we don't have it physically in front of us.

If you're in Mandeville link me via PM and I'll try and link up with you to troubleshoot. If you're in Kingston maybe one of the other members could do the same. Once again - download the UBCD and run the checks. We're waiting on more details and results from the tests.

[Powpow]

He should probably just get a new system and done as it sounds like it's done it time.

Course it could also be a virus as he's using XP, so tykoflex try booting in safemode (f8 before Windows loads) and check if it still freezes and let us know.

[toocoded]

I think this dude really MIA. No responses from him yet.

[odanerob]

he should reinstall his os and if problem persists, then it must be over heating

[khat17]

It also could be a hard drive problem since he says it "freezes then starts working again" or some background application hogging resources. But been waiting on some kind of reply and seeing none.