please confirm
Published on October 20, 2005 By werewolf In Personal Computing
Hi,

By freeze I mean total lock-up. No keyboard, no mouse, nada. It happens within 3 minutes of turning on the computer. To take drivers and such out of the equation, I left my computer on the boot loader (dual boot linux/winXP) and it froze.

Is there anyway that drivers could still be an issue here? I'm going to start checking all my hardware possibilities, but I need to get rid of the software issue first.

Thanks so much for your reply.

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Comments
on Oct 20, 2005
Make sure your CPU fan is running, then you could try taking out individual sticks of RAM and see if one of them is the problem.
on Oct 20, 2005
Also check your power connections, and use a P/S 2 keyboard to remove USB issues.
on Oct 21, 2005
thanks guys, that's what I had in mind.

I've got a p/s2 keyboard and a regular mouse, but I do have a USB 2 PCI card for cameras and media players, etc so I'll take that out.

Also reseating the ram/changing the slots, etc. Reseat the video card and the PCI cards. I just wanted to dismiss drivers or any other sort of software.

Thanks again.
on Oct 21, 2005
well, it seems that reseating everything did the trick. I've beein in XP and Linux for a couple of hours with no problems. Thank goodness!

Going to unplug everything and give it a good blowing out.
on Oct 21, 2005
Good to hear, werewolf.
on Oct 21, 2005
thanks Corky_O, I really don't have the money to replace stuff.