My computer keeps freezing...

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My computer keeps freezing...

Postby Hobo » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:04 pm

Every time I use my computer(a piece of crap vista), after about maybe 30 minutes, the screen freezes and I have to reboot. I know this isn't a connection problem, because it happened when I was in single player on SWBF. My mom just had the screen freeze while she was doing bills online.
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Re: My computer keeps freezing...

Postby Bryant » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:17 pm

Questions: Have you recently installed anything (hardware/software)? Does your computer make a lot of noise before/during freeze? If it's a laptop, is it extremely hot?

Suggestions: Run windows/microsoft updates to make sure you have all the latest patches. Open the task manager (ctrl+shift+esc or ctrl+alt+del), select processes tab and click CPU so it will order the list by CPU usage. Watch the list while you're on the computer to see if one process is taking up near 100% (or 50% for dual core) - if so then that program is freezing your computer.
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Re: My computer keeps freezing...

Postby WD-40 » Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:04 pm

I think maybe you downloaded too many viruses from the porn sites. Did you do a Virus scan?
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Re: My computer keeps freezing...

Postby Brazosgrad » Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:02 am

I for one think it should be thawed out before using. This freezing stuff sounds bad for a computer.
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Re: My computer keeps freezing...

Postby Hobo » Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:34 am

@Bryant I recently downloaded teamspeak and steam in the last month. Its a desktop.
@WD I did i virus scam on Friday actually, nothing appeared. And I've never downloaded porn before....
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Re: My computer keeps freezing...

Postby WD-40 » Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:10 am

A_Hobo wrote:@Bryant I recently downloaded teamspeak and steam in the last month. Its a desktop.
@WD I did i virus scam on Friday actually, nothing appeared. And I've never downloaded porn before....

Just kidding about the porn :roll:

I suppose it's possible your computer's processor can't run that 'Steam' program while gaming because it's too much for it to handle. Give us your computer specifications, and like Bryant said, their are certain things possibly running in the background that you don't need, and can just disable, like when you startup your computer.

I may also recommend two things:
1) Type the word "msconfig" in your 'Search' box in bottom left. Go to the 'Startup' tab and disable the crud that you don't need to run the computer. Alot of those programs you can start when you 'need' them by clicking on their icons. You will have to restart the computer once you do this for it to take effect. Be careful what you disable.

2) Download 'Gamebooster 3' Have it running while gaming. It shuts off like 40% extra useless crud running in the background that you may not see in the startup tab.
Hope it helps.

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Re: My computer keeps freezing...

Postby Hobo » Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:37 am

Unfortunately, I use steam to play swbf. Fortunately, all I needed to do was stop the process "sidebar", this thing on the right of my desktop that had random applications(Stocks, Usage, games, news). It was using 50k KB, so bye-bye sidebar! ;)

TY WD, Bryant
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Re: My computer keeps freezing...

Postby toad » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:48 pm

Make sure to run a scandisk and scan for bad sectors.
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Re: My computer keeps freezing...

Postby Hobo » Tue Nov 01, 2011 3:16 pm

I've discovered the real problem, turns out I was overthinking it. All that was happening was that my legs kept pushing the computer into the wall whenever I move around in my chair, and it caused the plugs to bend.
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Re: My computer keeps freezing...

Postby toad » Tue Nov 01, 2011 3:22 pm

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