Yea I know the topic is rather vague but I tried to be as descriptive as I could.
I'm having two problems on my computer atm. I have a 5 year old machine;
Pentium 4, 2.4GHz
Some Jetway Mobo
2x512 MB RAM
Geforce 4 Ti4200
Ehh yea, that's basically it I suppose if you need to know anything else please say so The Machine is kinda crappy I suppose for today's standards but I'm saving up for a new one so untill then I gotta cope with it
Anyway the problems.
The first problem I have is that whenever I load up my computer it automatically freezes up during the XP splash screen. Then, whenever I hard reboot my computer it asks me how to boot up. I tell it to boot up normally and it loads up fine.
This happens ALL the time and it's getting really annoying, always the same thing; It freezes during XP splash, hard reboot, boots fine. Freeze during XP splash, hard reboot, boots fine. I hope you get the idea.
Whenever this happens the red light on my machine turns off, the green one (power supply) stays on. I have no idea what the red light is connected to though, I was thinking it was the hard drive...
I read up a bit, did a chkdsk and a chkdsk /p. It found some errors so I did a chkdsk /r and after that it didn't find anything anymore so I thought it'd be over. But... it didn't. It kept continuing, the same problem over and over.
The second problem. I play games, alot. Specifically World of Warcraft. I've been playing it for almost two years, I've always had performance problems but nothing that serious to keep me from playing, but recently (a few weeks, maybe same time as problem #1) I've been having these very frustrating freezes, lock ups that take like a few seconds especially when running winamp in the background. This made me think that there's maybe something wrong with my sound device? Firefox running in the background doesn't cause much problems (though I get some lock ups here as well) so I don't think it's due to winamp using too much memory.
I was hoping someone around here knows their stuff and knows a way to fix either or both of these problems. Would be muchos appreciated!
I do not have a restore point, so that can't help me
I was thinking to reformat or just defrag my hard drive, but the partition was made december 2006 so I'm not sure if these effed up lock ups are all solely due to my drive being heavy fragmentated.
Yours sincere
edit: fixed some sentences
I'm having two problems on my computer atm. I have a 5 year old machine;
Pentium 4, 2.4GHz
Some Jetway Mobo
2x512 MB RAM
Geforce 4 Ti4200
Ehh yea, that's basically it I suppose if you need to know anything else please say so The Machine is kinda crappy I suppose for today's standards but I'm saving up for a new one so untill then I gotta cope with it
Anyway the problems.
The first problem I have is that whenever I load up my computer it automatically freezes up during the XP splash screen. Then, whenever I hard reboot my computer it asks me how to boot up. I tell it to boot up normally and it loads up fine.
This happens ALL the time and it's getting really annoying, always the same thing; It freezes during XP splash, hard reboot, boots fine. Freeze during XP splash, hard reboot, boots fine. I hope you get the idea.
Whenever this happens the red light on my machine turns off, the green one (power supply) stays on. I have no idea what the red light is connected to though, I was thinking it was the hard drive...
I read up a bit, did a chkdsk and a chkdsk /p. It found some errors so I did a chkdsk /r and after that it didn't find anything anymore so I thought it'd be over. But... it didn't. It kept continuing, the same problem over and over.
The second problem. I play games, alot. Specifically World of Warcraft. I've been playing it for almost two years, I've always had performance problems but nothing that serious to keep me from playing, but recently (a few weeks, maybe same time as problem #1) I've been having these very frustrating freezes, lock ups that take like a few seconds especially when running winamp in the background. This made me think that there's maybe something wrong with my sound device? Firefox running in the background doesn't cause much problems (though I get some lock ups here as well) so I don't think it's due to winamp using too much memory.
I was hoping someone around here knows their stuff and knows a way to fix either or both of these problems. Would be muchos appreciated!
I do not have a restore point, so that can't help me
I was thinking to reformat or just defrag my hard drive, but the partition was made december 2006 so I'm not sure if these effed up lock ups are all solely due to my drive being heavy fragmentated.
Yours sincere
edit: fixed some sentences