Can someone please help my machine keeps freezing up on me?
can someone please help. I’m running Windows XP Pro, it freezes up every so often and I have to hard reset it. When it restarts, it tells me that it’s running scandisc on my F: drive (slave). The software I have won’t tell me anything. I have AVG, Advanced Windows Care, Abexo Free Registry Cleaner and I use the standard Win Defragmenter. Before anyone says, I prefer these Programmes and there aren’t any conflicts because i’ve checked. Any other suggestions would be welcome. Thankyou.
No matter how many proggrammes i run or what i am doing it freezes at least twice a day my f: drive is for files like videos (all of which have been checked with avg) so no. other than that io cant think of anything else
Mail this post
Tagged with: avg • conflicts • free registry cleaner • scandisc • windows xp
Filed under: Windows Repair Software
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
Software culpit:
1. This is caused by the programs are running on startup, those with a icon next to the clock, Avg is a must, but, Advanced windows care and the registry cleaner and you don’t need them everyday(now they failed you anyway), and they taken up system resources like Ram, cpu workload etc, thats might be a problem, try uninstall them see if problem gone.
2. Try uninstall some unnecessary program, use the uninstall link to do that.
3. Try to backup your important files and reformat your harddrive and install xp from start again if no solution is viable.
Hardware culpit:
If your pc > 4 years old, it can barely handle xp with the lot of software and updates you installed, may be is time to buy a new one.
I smell a virus…might be time to wipe your hard drive.
Try reinstalling your video card drivers
You either have a virus, Spy Ware or Adware on your computer thats causing the conflict.
Thats my best guess.
If Scandisk is trying to run a scan on your F drive then there is a problem, either from bad sectors, errors or something. I am not sure if it is related to the freezing up though, depends on how you use that drive.
I have had the Scandisk thing on a drive happen a couple of times and the only way to fix it was to reformat it and restore it from a backup disk.
Try removing the F drive and see if you can run just things on your C drive without problems.
usually scandisc runs because of one of two things. 1. when you hit the power button, the hard drives don’t get a chance to "lock" so, wile trying to read somthing, the power suddonly cuts off and windows thinks its the drives fult, so it scans it to see what the problem was. 2. because it detected bad sectors and wants to see if they rele exist.
now, as far as the crashing goes, is there one thing that just seems to set it off, like every time u run a specific game it crashes? and, haw many programes are you running at once? also, computers are ment to crash, its going to happen, guarenteed, if it happens only like once a onth or so, then ur fine.
Windows can become corrupted even when all the most stringent safety steps are taken. It doesn’t even take a virus. Under the circumstances you’ve described, I would reload your OS and apps…., and see if it still happens. If it does, then you’ve probably either got a malfunctioning hardware device or device driver. I hope that helps.
Despite your comment about those programmes, I would start with the following steps:
- use your Event Viewer (Control Panel, etc) to see what caused the shutdown – if it got annunciated
- run Spybot S&D, HijackThis, and Ad-aware to hunt down and destroy any spyware (these are all free, just do a Yahoo search)
- disable Advanced Windows Care and Abexo Free Registry Cleaner from running – even if these apps tell you they’re not running, you may still see them in the Task Manager (perhaps) – I’m sure they’re useful apps, just trying to eliminate potential causes
As you can see, you need to do some analysis combined with trial and error. Steps to take if you need are:
- disable uneeded services (for example, why have DHCP client running if you’re using static IP) using services.msc (from commandline)
- kill uneeded tasks directly from Task Manager, adobe acrobat can cause lockups
The scandisk being run is automatic, any hard boot will cause a scandisk to be run. While it’s puzzling it’s running a scandisk on a slave (not primary) drive, it makes some sense since the OS doesn’t know whether to trust its state on reboot. This does NOT indicate any problem with the F: drive or scandisk, this is merely a symptom: if you get in a car accident and hurt your nose because of bad brakes, you don’t replace the nose.
if i was u i would reformat the hard drive and reinstall windows again because there could be a problem with the boot sector
Sounds like it could have something to do with your motherboard/processor… make sure your fans inside are work, especially the one above your processor… If it overheats then it could cause your computer to freeze and/or shutdown unexpectedly.