Hi pete,
Glad we were able to help you fix that problem.
#2 on the list: Dust / Overheating. :-)
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pete Wrote:
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| well guys i figured out my puter freezing up problem. went to my sisters to
| reformat, she has high speed and i have dial up. had a heck of a time trying
| to do that as it kept freezing up during that. finally we got an error
| message and she looked it up on the net and it had to do with overheating.
| so we stuck the puter outside it was like 34 degrees out and never had
| another problem. when i got home i pulled off the processer fan and there
| was a ton of dust built up under it. i couldn't even see the cooling fins
| below the fan. bought 2 new fans, one for the front of the box and one for
| the rear, put the sides back on and haven't had a problem since. thanks for
| the tips though guys, probably not what you were expecting.
|
| pete
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| "pete" wrote:
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|| i can surf the web all i want but anytime i try to play a game or do anything
|| higher end my puter freezes up. i am running xp home and have plenty of ram.
|| have an amd athlon 1800. thought maybe it was the video card so bought a
|| new one and that didn't work either. have webroot spy sweeper so there is no
|| spyware running in the backround. have norton virus scan which by the way
|| won't complete a full system scan because the puter freezes up. managed to
|| scan it last month so it hasn't been to long. have all the updates for
|| windows and norton. the guys at geek squad couldn't even figure it out. any
|| help would be greatly appreciated.
||
|| pete
