xultrazerox
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All right so here's the run down. I have an older dell 2.8 ghz, 768 mghz ram, with 60 gig HD
i have had this machine now for 4 years or so and it has worked great Cleaned it out about twice a year. About 2 months ago the machine started freezing. im not talking app's i mean the whole system. i mean evil freezing. get on the net or a game or just the desktop it would freeze. the mouse keyboard everything.
i figured at this point it was problly a virus or spy ware or something so i did a scan on it useing AVG & Spybot S&D. nither of them came up with anything. after a few more day of this the freezing period's shortened and shortened instead of it happenin every hour or so it got to 5 - 10 min.. then eventually on restart at the window's loading screen it started freezing.
he i figured was ither maybe there was a virus the scan missed and now i was deep in it. or HD was biting the dust. So i got lazy and got a diffrent HD and installed it. the system installed windows fine but again on loading screen it froze up.. then i figured maybe a stick of ram went bad. so i switched around the ram in the machine. still kept doing it.
i felt the proccessor and it felt as if it was a little to warm so i cleaned out the coolin unit and applied a new coat of heat sink. and it conitued doing it.. so i changed proccessor's thinking maybe it was that. Still same problem with a new proccessor .
I know a bit about pc's but i am totally stumped at this point on what to do. i have done everything i can think of short of buying and new mobo and proccessor for it. but at the prices they still run i could build another quad core.
If anyone has any idea on what this could be please let me know
Thanks Zero
i have had this machine now for 4 years or so and it has worked great Cleaned it out about twice a year. About 2 months ago the machine started freezing. im not talking app's i mean the whole system. i mean evil freezing. get on the net or a game or just the desktop it would freeze. the mouse keyboard everything.
i figured at this point it was problly a virus or spy ware or something so i did a scan on it useing AVG & Spybot S&D. nither of them came up with anything. after a few more day of this the freezing period's shortened and shortened instead of it happenin every hour or so it got to 5 - 10 min.. then eventually on restart at the window's loading screen it started freezing.
he i figured was ither maybe there was a virus the scan missed and now i was deep in it. or HD was biting the dust. So i got lazy and got a diffrent HD and installed it. the system installed windows fine but again on loading screen it froze up.. then i figured maybe a stick of ram went bad. so i switched around the ram in the machine. still kept doing it.
i felt the proccessor and it felt as if it was a little to warm so i cleaned out the coolin unit and applied a new coat of heat sink. and it conitued doing it.. so i changed proccessor's thinking maybe it was that. Still same problem with a new proccessor .
I know a bit about pc's but i am totally stumped at this point on what to do. i have done everything i can think of short of buying and new mobo and proccessor for it. but at the prices they still run i could build another quad core.
If anyone has any idea on what this could be please let me know
Thanks Zero