Freeze up

[Hak]

Hey, got a bit of problem with my windows, or not entirely sure if it's that but best thing to do is blame windows. When I run a program (usually games, different ones) occasionally my computer freezes up. Sometimes I can still ctrlaltdelete and then see the task manager behind the application with the mouse but cant do anything other then press a restart, other times it just gives a black screen and I have to restart.

Looked in the even viewer and I get this error

"The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
FGXSCSI"

any idea on if this can cause it or not would be great. Note that I have recently (2 months no more then that) reformatted and cleaned the inside of the pc out, so it cant be overheating or anything.

Thanks for the reply in advance.

 

[Tmagic650]

"FarStone VirtualDrive" Do you have this program installed on your system? You might benefit by doing a disk check on bootup and see if it detects any errors. What Operating System are you running? Is it fully updated using Windows Update?

 

[Hak]

No I don't have "FarStone VirtualDrive" installed. The OS is Windows XP Home SP 3, and I haven't updated recently, I'll do that and let you know if it helped anything. And how do I do a disk check?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Hak]

Update didn't help

 

[Hak]

Ran a disk check at bootup and it said one or more errors have been detected, tried running a repair and after getting to 72% it droped back down to 60%. It did this a few times and then it stuck at 64% and stayed there for about 45 min.

 

[Tmagic650]

You have a hard drive problem. Back up important data and you might have to replace the hard drive

 

[Hak]

Yeh thanks for the disk check tip. At least I won't be surprised when one morning it won't start.

 

[Tmagic650]

The hard drive may be able to work again by formatting, but this will destroy all data on the drive