My Computer solid state freezes!?!?

October 28, 2009

dont get me wrong im no computer noob i built this machine 5 years ago or so. its a Abit VT7 motherboard with a gig of ram a AGP Geforce6200 vid card and it passed Geek Squads hardware diagnostic with flying colors.so i thought it was software, i did bios flash, i did complete fresh install on the Computer and still my Computer solid state freezes with no error given, fresh Xp install, passed extensive hardware test , what can still be causing the freezes and how do i find out?
dont get me wrong im no computer noob i built this machine 5 years ago or so. its a Abit VT7 motherboard with a gig of ram a AGP Geforce6200 vid card and it passed Geek Squads hardware diagnostic with flying colors.so i thought it was software, i did bios flash, i did complete fresh install on the Computer and still my Computer solid state freezes with no error given, fresh Xp install, passed extensive hardware test , what can still be causing the freezes and how do i find out?

So right now there is nothing "added" to it, it is a fresh install so i do not know what to remove to make it stop freezing, all the drivers are up to date, if it is a driver causing the problem how do i know which one?

Is clean installing windows XP free?

October 27, 2009

I have the windows media centre edition CD sp2, (i think 2005) And my computer is really messed up I can’t even use stuff in the controll panel.
I have a working version of XP on the computer, and the CD. Will the fresh install be free? Or will I have to buy a new CD?
And How long will the install take? I’ve got a p4 3ghz, 1 gig ram, gotta formatt whole 200 gig hdd and setup 4 users.

Thank You very much! My computer is almost about to crash and I don’t want that to happen. (i’ve considered linux, but its not my computer)

Registry cleaners……..?

September 25, 2009

Are there any free registry cleaners? Will they improve processing speed? I have a Pentium III, 512mb RAM, and 80 gig hardrive with about 45% used. Processing is slow of late.

memory causing windows to freeze?

September 1, 2009

I recently built a new computer from scratch with high end components and installed Windows Vista 64-bit.
I was having major issues with the system freezing permanently and randomly during use.
I would run windows memory diagnostic software and it did not find any hardware errors.

I had a 4 gig dual channel memory kit installed in the first 2 dimm slots on my motherboard.
I tried changing the memory to the last two dimm slots and the computer then seemed to work for a while but ultimately started freezing again.
Windows would also occasionally crash fatally to a blue error screen.

I then switched the memory to the 1st and 3rd dimm slots(both blue colored slots) and now Windows hasn’t froze or crashed in days.

Can anyone tell me why this last solution might have worked?
I have an Asus Maximus Extreme motherboard:
http://www.dvhardware.net/news/asus_maximus_extreme_xf.jpg

And 4g of OCZ Platinum Enhanced DDR3 memory

Thanks

SOFTWARE GLITCH WINDOWS XP?

July 26, 2009

Custom Build PC. Started having glitches in almost all programs. Usual operations, just this day starting acting all weird/glitches.

I scanned with AVG and got the following changes.

Partition table (MBR) Change
Boot Sector of disc Change
Kernel32.dll Change
wsock32.dll Change
user 32.dll Change
shell32.dll Change
ntoskrnl.exe Change

I attempted to get into System Restore but I get an new window that only allows me to report a windows error.

I got into BIOS, changed to boot from CD-Rom. Put Win XP Disc in and it boots. When I select repair it tells me I have no hard drive recognized. When I attempted to re-install, it tells me I have no hard drive recognized.

NO. 1: Virus? If so, do I just get something like Norton which will allow me to restore to a earlier time? Full Scan with AVG picked up notta except the changes I’ve included herein.

NO. 2: Glitch? I’m lucky to have had a couple years no problems and today is my problem day? It’s a computer, computers get glitches? Am I able to undo the changes to bring me "back to normal?"

NO 3, Good computer tech can breeze through this in 3 minutes?

NO 4, Is there a back-door to get into system restore to restore to a previous time?

I did de-frag the hard drive which took nearly 7 hours (250-gig). I did a Win. System Clean up which took 30 min.

De-frag normally takes 30-min at best. System Clean up takes usually 2-3.

Now de-frag and System Clean up taking the usual short periods of time.