MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
It just keeps freezing* on me, and it's getting boring.
sometimes it'll run for a day or two between 'freezes', sometimes it's every five or ten minutes.
I was beginning to suspect it being a software problem (maybe a buggy firefox plugin), but then it froze on the 'Windows is starting up' screen, which makes me now almost certain it's a hardware problem.... but which bit of hardware? CPU, PSU, Motherboard, Hard Drive... no idea
Any ideas how i should go about diagnosing the issue?
I've tried unplugging all external drives and peripherals, still freezes after a random amount of time. not sure what else to try.
TIA
sometimes it'll run for a day or two between 'freezes', sometimes it's every five or ten minutes.
I was beginning to suspect it being a software problem (maybe a buggy firefox plugin), but then it froze on the 'Windows is starting up' screen, which makes me now almost certain it's a hardware problem.... but which bit of hardware? CPU, PSU, Motherboard, Hard Drive... no idea
*freezing.... everything stops as in the mouse cursor stops moving on the screen, clock on task bar stops along with all other animated icons, keyboard becomes unresponsive (ie, caps lock light doesn't go on and off, and Ctrl, Alt, Del does nothing).
Any ideas how i should go about diagnosing the issue?
I've tried unplugging all external drives and peripherals, still freezes after a random amount of time. not sure what else to try.
TIA
