Whether I am on the internet or just using the pc for other tasks my computer has started to freeze up on a very regular basis (sometimes 7 or 8 times a day). There is never any message before or after and all I can do is restart my pc.

I am running Windows XP home edition with an AMD athlon 2200 Processor and 512 mb ram memory.

If anyone could help I would be Grateful.

Thanks,

Phil.

Generally Heat or Power related. Is this an old computer? Have you ever opened it and cleaned it?
Check that all the fans are working?

Does this happen at regular intervals? e.g. every hour? every 2 hours? etc.

Does it restart right away with no problem?

You can try error searches here:

Also view your Error Log via:
[1] Start Menu
[2] Help and Support
[3] Pick a Task
[4] Tools
[5] Advanced System Information
[6] View the Error Log

Also: look in your Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id especially of errors that seem to coincide with a freeze.

Also: Go to start | search (type in) .dmp
Note the location of your latest .dmp file.

Then:

1) Download and install the
Debugging Tools from Microsoft
2) Download and install this
debugwiz
3) Open the Wiz & Browse to, or paste in the path to, your latest .dmp file.
4) After the Wiz creates a Text document attach it back to this thread.

Originally Posted by jephree

Generally Heat or Power related. Is this an old computer? Have you ever opened it and cleaned it?
Check that all the fans are working?

Does this happen at regular intervals? e.g. every hour? every 2 hours? etc.

Does it restart right away with no problem?

You can try error searches here:

Also view your Error Log via:
[1] Start Menu
[2] Help and Support
[3] Pick a Task
[4] Tools
[5] Advanced System Information
[6] View the Error Log

Also: look in your Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id especially of errors that seem to coincide with a freeze.

Also: Go to start | search (type in) .dmp
Note the location of your latest .dmp file.

Then:

1) Download and install the
Debugging Tools from Microsoft
2) Download and install this
debugwiz
3) Open the Wiz & Browse to, or paste in the path to, your latest .dmp file.
4) After the Wiz creates a Text document attach it back to this thread.

Thanks for your reply.

Yes I have opened the PC case up and cleaned it and all the fans appear to be working OK.

I have attached the text doc created by the debug wiz if it helps.

That dump was triggered by a James Bond 007 screensaver.

Does your freeze occur everytime the screensaver activates?

Try turning off your screensaver: Control Panel | Display | Screensaver | NONE

See if this resolves anything.


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Also suggest setting your page file to System Manage Size:

Where do I set the placing and size of the page file?
At Control Panel | System | Advanced, click Settings in the “Performance” Section. On the Advanced page of the result, the current total physical size of all page files that may be in existence is shown. Click Change to make settings for the Virtual memory operation. Here you can select any drive partition and set either ‘Custom’; ‘System Managed’ or ‘No page file’; then always click Set before going on to the next partition.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm


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