Annoying Computer Freezes

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Seijin

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I have no idea what to do with this computer now. It just freezes for no particular reason at all. I am on the web and click the back button and it freezes, my brother is playing Everquest and it freezes, we click on a windows icon and it freezes. I have no idea what to do about this. I have tried scan disk, defragmentation, but they don't seem to work at all. Is there anything I can do to stop this problem? Right now I am searching for spyware and will remove all the spyware from my computer. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

My computer specs are as follows: Windows XP Home Edition, 384 MB RAM, 500 MHZ Pentium 3 processor, GeForce3 Ti Video Card.

Seijin
 
First, right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced tab > Startup and Recovery button > uncheck "Automatically reboot." Also, check to see if there any odd alerts are in the event viewer.

Secondly, it may be a RAM or heat issue, too. Grab a memory tester from www.goldmemory.cz. Also, take the side of your case off and make sure all the fans are spinning, and leave the side off for a day or so, making sure to note whether or not the computer freezes.
 
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I have one question........is it a Compaq, i have nothing against compaq, but i work at Radio Shack, and we sell them. we get them back for repair all the time because of this problem. as far as suggestions go......xp on a p3 500? didnt know they made a p3 500.... i thought p3 was 700 and up... over heating is a big issue as was said before.
 
there were both p2 and p3 450's, my bro when he got his comp wanted to buy a p2 450, but the company couldn't offer him one coz intel re-called them and forced p3 450's on them, so he bought a K6-3 instead. He's got an xp1900 now anyway.
 
I found this book my mother bought when Windows XP Home Edition first came out to help her through the new OS. I decided to look through it and see if any information in it could help me with this annoying freezing problem. One section told me about computer errors and told me were I could go in Windows to find out what kind of error is happening on my computer, so I go to the place and found some error message dealing with IE. Here is the message that I found and it does relate to the problem because the computer only freezes when I am using the browser to surf the web and no other time does it freeze. Anyway, here is the message.

Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2600.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00000000.

Thanks for all your replies and help so far, I hope I am giving you all enough information so you can help me out.

Seijin
 
Originally posted by Dabom
First, right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced tab > Startup and Recovery button > uncheck "Automatically reboot." Also, check to see if there any odd alerts are in the event viewer.
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Good call.

Visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and make sure you've got Internet Explorer and Windows patched.

If that doesn't work, you can also try repairing Internet Explorer.

Start > Run > Copy and paste this:

rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Setup\SETUP.EXE" /g "C:\WINDOWS\IE Uninstall Log.Txt"
 
Originally posted by Dabom


Good call.

Visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and make sure you've got Internet Explorer and Windows patched.

If that doesn't work, you can also try repairing Internet Explorer.

Start > Run > Copy and paste this:

rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Setup\SETUP.EXE" /g "C:\WINDOWS\IE Uninstall Log.Txt"
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Dabom,

I tried what you said with the updates and no updates were out of Internet Explorer that I did not already have. When I did copy and paste with the repair program it worked, but when the dialog box came up I couldn't check anything. So how can I get it to where I can check something? I saw the repair IE, but it wouldn't let me check it.

Seijin
 
Yes they did make a P3 500, but it was using the old Katmai core, rather then the newer Cu-mine core using the integrated L2 cache... I would question whether a P3 500 is a bit low end for XP and gaming with it, but oh well...

A couple things Seigin,

- Do you have any documentation which indicates what system board came with that Compaq, or if we can know the model, it might be possible for us to look up on Compaq's site. They very well might have come out with a BIOS update since you bought your P3 500, and sometimes a BIOS update can helped with newer operating systems or certain updates.

- How old is this computer, and did this problem just occur suddenly or has it been happening, since for instance you put winXP on there?

I had an old Pentium 75 which suffered from a chipset which was going bad (degrading) which was the older i430FX chipset (had a few probs), and RAM that degraded. The combo resulted in a large number of crashes using Windows NT 4.0 (much older version of the system that is called Windows XP today) and in Windows 95 it became unuseable. Some of the memory tested bad, and even with it gone, the system board (memory controller specifically) was toast... I had to get a new system... I had many of the same symptoms you mention, along with rather unusual error messages such as the STOP 0x24 which because I had Service Pack 3, should not have been, in-page/parity errors, etc...

- Can you go into Control Panels, double click on "Administrative Tools" and then double click on "Event Viewer"

Once in there, do the following:

1. Select System
2. Click on the View menu and select Filter
3. Uncheck all but Error to begin with
4. Click on OK
5. If some errors and the Source (is a column you will see) is repetitive, report to us what it is

If an event ID and/or an error code is given, please indicate this along with where it is indicating the fault is... At a blue screen it might also report STOP 0x and some number, plz indicate what that is, where it's saying the error is comming from, the text you get. Microsoft has documentation which can allow us to look up the number given, to see what Microsoft has to say about that error code...
 
I recently read on a site about some error with IE and that to disable activeX in the security settings for it until a new patch for IE came out to fix that problem. I'll see if I can find the site again but other than that I do not think there was much else to say other than that.
 
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