Freezing!!!

[kevz0r]

Ok ... so heres the problem, my friends computer would just randomly freeze up after about 15 minutes of being in windows, the only think he would do would just to go on the internet or play poker... i tried everything to fix it ( running multiple virus scans, resetting the cmos and clearing the temporary internet files but still nothing has fixed it

his specs are:

Pentium 4 @ 3.00Ghz (LGA 775)
Abit AS8
512mb ram
80gb sata HD
PNY 5700le
MGE 500watt power supply
Windows 2000 proffesional

THANK YOU !!!! IM GOING CRRAAZZYZYZYZYYZYZYZYYY

 

[discochan]

Did you try repairing your Windows install?

 

[kevz0r]

Did you try repairing your Windows install?

(Sorry im noob) How do i do that? I havent tried a disk cleanup or a defrag yet , should i try that??

 

[kevz0r]

Possible overheating problem?

He has watercooling on the cpu but i think the northbridge only has a heatsink and no fan , but the southbridge has a fan... and also the videocard has a fan, the computer is also in a cramped space were not a whole lot of air can get to it, can one of those be the problem ??

 

[LordBritish]

Run everything at default speeds and try again.

 

[kevz0r]

You might want to try getting some air in there then and see if it helps. The only reason I say this, is if Windows was broken, it probably wouldn't boot up at all, even less run 15 minutes and magically die....getter cooled off and try again, report back.

ValeX

I moved it out of that cramped space and cleaned out all of the dust.... defragged it and then deleted all the temporary files and history in his firefox, seems to be running just fine now ( i hope )