Random Freezing

**S!X** · 04-29-2010, 09:33 PM

For the past few months my computer has been randomly freezing out of no where. Not sure what's causing this but it's starting to get annoying...here's the specs:

Corsair 520W PSU
AMD X2 4200 Manchester @2.77GHz w/Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
XFX 8800GTS 320MB
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
OCZ Platinum EL PC3200 1GB 2X512MB DDR400
Seagate Barracuda SATA 250GB
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition

And a shot of the current hardware temps:

**darkstate01** · 04-29-2010, 10:35 PM

Random glitches like that are usually dirty contacts on your hardware, Maybe a bit of dust has worked its way into something on the board, I know you don't want to here this but if you have the time over the weekend, take anything that is on the board like graphics cards/sound cards etc even your memory cards and give them a once over with some isopropyl or any other cleaning agent, and give all the board a blast of air to make sure its clean.
Years ago i kept on having this problem and it was a strand of fibre or hair that was wedged in the memory card, once removed it became stable.
And another time, it was my PSU that was past its sell by date,replaced that and it fixed the problem.

**peat moss** · 04-30-2010, 12:29 AM

Sometimes its driver updates , or a file corrupted , try a memory test ? Me ? I'd take dark's advice and if that continues try a fresh install .

I can remember a similar problem and took a friends advice and reseated "all" my cards , memory too but took wax paper and rubbed along the Video card inserts ... sometimes its the simple things . Reinstall as a last resort of course .

**darkstate01** · 04-30-2010, 12:44 AM

Don't even say reinstall, Thats a nightmare approach

check for a dusty board, re-seat and clean all your hardware/memory then do a virus check,Check your drivers are up to date, do as peat moss said about the memory test... Then as a nightmare last ditch effort do a re-install, but from your description its just a dirty contact,fingers crossed.

**Detale** · 04-30-2010, 01:07 PM

Nightmare!? That's a bit harsh, it's not that bad at all dude. Yes usually it will fix what ailes ya, but personally I'm gonna take a stab and say the video driver. I have seen this again semingly out of no where and usually thats the issue.

Did this happen when you installed Win7 BTW?

**S!X** · 04-30-2010, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Detale

Did this happen when you installed Win7 BTW?

I've had Win7 installed for quite a while now and it just started doing this recently

**brilman** · 04-30-2010, 06:46 PM

[QUOTE=S!X;3444970]

Originally Posted by Detale

Did this happen when you installed Win7 BTW?

Started doing that to me after a clean win7 install. Thought it may be the power supply but turns out it just needed a real good cleaning. Funny thing is I tell everyone to make sure they give there system a good blow job every now and then

**darkstate01** · 04-30-2010, 10:49 PM

Happy days, That damn dusty box, glad you are sorted, Its really trial and error with glitches like that.between software(drivers) and hardware (dust on the contacts)