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NeverForgotten · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:11 pm Post subject: Computer Freezing Randomly

My computer freezes randomly at times when doing even the smallest things like using mozilla firefox (facebook, etc) and playing music on Windows Media Player

Like Mozilla Firefox will stop responding for about 10-20 seconds and it gets really annoying and sometimes even WMP will close down

I've noticed that my fans get really loud when this happens the computer literally starts to make the loudest noise from the fans

Is it overheating?

Its about 1 and a half years old

Windows 7
Quad Core Q6600
3GB Ram

I do tend to keep everything clean like unnecessary start up items, defragment every now and then etc.

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:38 pm Post subject:

sounds more like a process or kernel routine is eating up all resources until it's done (slows down/freezes computer, and uses full cpu so heats up so cpu fan has to go faster)

Try getting the latest drivers, latest updates for programs you are running (anti virus/firewall, etc...) do a windows update, and have the taskmanager and resource monitor open at all times and see if you can catch what's causing it

I had exactly the same problem on windows XP a while back, but after a reformat it was gone

Hero · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:17 pm Post subject:

Most likely a virus. Get malwarebytes or one of the many other AV programs and scan for one. Your fan is getting loud because it's kicking up the speed to keep the cpu cool under its pressure.

NeverForgotten · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:20 pm Post subject:

@darkbyte I have everything up to date, I'll try to experiment with task manager and see what is causing the problem
but I was also thinking of a reformat as you suggested

@Hero Shouldnt be a virus, and my Kaspersky 2010 Internet Security detected nothing

Would cleaning the inside with a air canster work?

Hero · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:31 pm Post subject:

NeverForgotten · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:13 pm Post subject:

Scanned with Online ESET Scanner
nothing detected

Luigi · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:29 pm Post subject:

What are ALL of your computer specs? It COULD be, but is most likely not a compatibility issue. It could also be a windows issue, such as:
WMP finds the music, tries to play it, then all the sudden it goes "OMFGWTWEFDEJWVCIRWFVRWVRWVNURWFFRWGRGRG" because it's like, CONFUSED OMG
Facebook might be all "U SEND PAKITS I SEND PAKITS" and then its all "OMFG NO WANT LOL GTFO WE STUCK LOL OMG"
What I mean is, a difficulty transferring data, or even a "data jam".
Do you get any error messages before, during, or after the freeze (like when you reboot on XP after a crash, it's all "WINDOWS HAZ RECUVERED FROM A SRS ERROR").

Karakawe · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:45 pm Post subject:

NeverForgotten · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:42 pm Post subject:

Is there a way to determine the problem without using a live OS Linux ?

Should I just reformat?

Hero · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:50 pm Post subject:

If you have nothing to lose just reformat. Otherwise, you have something causing the issue. Did you change any drivers for anything lately? My netbook became fucked up when I tried to change my drivers for the speakers. I thought it would help make the static sound go away. It made everything super lag for some reason. Reinstalled the old and its good as new.

Try some things first though. Registry cleaning, chkdsk /r (in cmd), defrag the HDD. Also try sfc /scannow (in cmd).

These all can help or show problems.

Luigi · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 12:07 am Post subject:

NeverForgotten · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:57 pm Post subject:

@hero I did the cmd prompts you told me
nothing came up except for recycle bin was corrupted and it asked me to empty it and i did

I tried Live Linux and
Ubuntu on my USB also tends to freeze occasionally