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OK my PC started freezing I scanned viruses and spy-ware. I cleaned out all the temp files, Internet files and so on. It still kept freezing so i said f it and i reformatted and reinstalled windows, updated everything to date. And......IT STILL FREEZES. this has never happened to me before and I've been working on PCs for years. the only thing i can think in might be is the hard drive. I have not done a surface scan on it yet but I'm going to. Does anybody have an idea what might be the problem?
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might wanna give us some details on make and model, os, tech specs etc then tell us what exactly is happening as we cant just find the root of problem with just on estatement mate.

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Originally Posted by jaywantgolande View Post
OK my PC started freezing I scanned viruses and spy-ware. I cleaned out all the temp files, Internet files and so on. It still kept freezing so i said f it and i reformatted and reinstalled windows, updated everything to date. And......IT STILL FREEZES. this has never happened to me before and I've been working on PCs for years. the only thing i can think in might be is the hard drive. I have not done a surface scan on it yet but I'm going to. Does anybody have an idea what might be the problem?

do you really need help or are you just messing with us here repeating the posts from other poters..

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OK my PC started freezing I scanned viruses and spy-ware. I cleaned out all the temp files, Internet files and so on. It still kept freezing so i said f it and i reformatted and reinstalled windows, updated everything to date. And......IT STILL FREEZES. this has never happened to me before and I've been working on PCs for years. the only thing i can think in might be is the hard drive. I have not done a surface scan on it yet but I'm going to. Does anybody have an idea what might be the problem?




Thanks, Goomnaga

Hi Goomnaga, well considering the fact that you have been working on computers for years, I am confident that its probably not a dust issue. If you can get the operating system on it again, try checking if the hard drive is set in pio mode. This is a slower but more stable mode that reduces the transfer rates to about 4mb/s in the event of an error. What you want it to be is on dma. You can check in device manager->IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers->Primary/Secondary IDE channel->Advanced/Extended tab. If this is the problem, several solutions are here and here.
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did you get anything good out of your machine goomnaga?
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I m thinking its more of a heating issues that is making the system unstable, have u cleaned the fans of any dust deposited on the ends that could be the main cause as even running the test it starts to freeze which means something else triggers it. Also be worthwhile to check for the thermal paste on the CPU as well depending on the age of your system.

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post nr5 is states the same mr raj...
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fully agreed there with ya good sir, just wanted to make sure he did it as he didnt mention anywhere that he looked into checking for overhating issues as that is what seemed to be his problem. So no argument there matey.

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All the fans are clean. I deleted the partition, formated, and re installed windows. To my surprise it froze during the windows installation lol. So.. Its the hard drive right??
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By the way the machine is custom. A friend made it. P4 2.8 GHZ, 512MB ram, 128MB Ati Radeon video card, 120GB Maxtor HHD. The mobo is an MSI. It ws built in 2004. If yall need any other specs just post.
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youre problem is hardware related for sure. id check my cpu and RAM for testing
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