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Hi everybody.
I have plenty of trouble with my office PC in a past month or so. Every once
in a while everything just freezes. You can't Ctrl-Alt-Del from it, cursor
is frozen and hardware reset is the only escape.The freeze occurs while
using office applications, or just plain old IE (just so you don't think
it's some sort of game-related issue).
I thought that the reason was software-related, so I installed OS from
scratch, but to no avail. The funny thing is that there were no rules to the
freeze up - sometimes it would freeze five times in a row right after
logging on, and after resetting a few times you could work on it for a few
hours without problem. Sometimes the freezes seem to be related to how many
applications are open or how demanding they are (downloading a movie from my
DigiCam through FireWire always causes a freeze eventually), but sometimes
it freezes while no applications are working, you log in and the cursor just
stops moving.
Just for testing purposes, I have chilled the room I'm working in, and left
the PC case without a lid. That was 2 days ago, and I haven't had a freeze
since (but it is still early to tell that this is a solution for sure, my
comp could work ok sometimes for five days and than suddenly it started a
freeze-o-rama fest leaving me a day of work behind).
So my question is - can all this be heat-related? Is it the processor,
graphics card (motherboard integrated), RAM or what? How can I diagnose it,
and what's the best solution (new cooler for the processor, case cooler
etc.)?
I appreciate any kind of help. Thanks in advance.
Cheers!
I have plenty of trouble with my office PC in a past month or so. Every once
in a while everything just freezes. You can't Ctrl-Alt-Del from it, cursor
is frozen and hardware reset is the only escape.The freeze occurs while
using office applications, or just plain old IE (just so you don't think
it's some sort of game-related issue).
I thought that the reason was software-related, so I installed OS from
scratch, but to no avail. The funny thing is that there were no rules to the
freeze up - sometimes it would freeze five times in a row right after
logging on, and after resetting a few times you could work on it for a few
hours without problem. Sometimes the freezes seem to be related to how many
applications are open or how demanding they are (downloading a movie from my
DigiCam through FireWire always causes a freeze eventually), but sometimes
it freezes while no applications are working, you log in and the cursor just
stops moving.
Just for testing purposes, I have chilled the room I'm working in, and left
the PC case without a lid. That was 2 days ago, and I haven't had a freeze
since (but it is still early to tell that this is a solution for sure, my
comp could work ok sometimes for five days and than suddenly it started a
freeze-o-rama fest leaving me a day of work behind).
So my question is - can all this be heat-related? Is it the processor,
graphics card (motherboard integrated), RAM or what? How can I diagnose it,
and what's the best solution (new cooler for the processor, case cooler
etc.)?
I appreciate any kind of help. Thanks in advance.
Cheers!