Comp Freeze

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

tjesterb

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.

Corky_O

on Oct 20, 2005

Also check your power connections, and use a P/S 2 keyboard to remove USB issues.

werewolf

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.

werewolf

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.

Corky_O

on Oct 21, 2005

Good to hear, werewolf.

werewolf

on Oct 21, 2005

thanks Corky_O, I really don't have the money to replace stuff.

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