Help!!! Computer Is Freezing For No Reason

Astronautcowboy · Jul 16, 2009

Ok, so sunday night and every other day before that, my computer has been fine. But on monday it starts freezing for no good reason at all. I haven't installed anything. It just freezes. So I thought it was the graphics card so I upgrade the driver. No. I CCleanered the computer. No. Reinstalled flash. No. Scanned for viruses. No. Reinstalled Firefox. No. I Can't seem to figure out what is causing this problem.

I got some pictures of the event log. There are 3 errors that I get when I freeze. Also, the computer starts making a infinitely long beep sound.

Dell dimension 8400
Pentium 4 3.00 Ghz
2x 512mb DDR2-533
Radeon x300 GPU

erocker · Jul 16, 2009

Please post your system specifications, but I suspect (guess) your power supply may be on the way out.

Astronautcowboy · Jul 16, 2009

The computer runs fine in safe mode I don't think that is it.

phanbuey · Jul 16, 2009

can you replicate the freeze? Are you running a particular program when it freezes?

Mike0409 · Jul 16, 2009

Are you running any Firewall software? Blackice?

Astronautcowboy · Jul 17, 2009

Nope I am just browsing firefox with my music and then it just freezes with a long beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep until I cut the power and restart it. I am running AVG antivirus and a firewall but those haven't ever given me any problems. I also tried jsut browsing with Chrome but that doesn't help.

Dan2312 · Jul 17, 2009

erocker said:
Please post your system specifications, but I suspect (guess) your power supply may be on the way out.

Samething i was gonna say. 2up on that one.

Astronautcowboy · Jul 17, 2009

Alright my friend said he had the same problem with AVG so I uninstalled that and now I'm just testing it.

phanbuey · Jul 17, 2009

have you moved the pc around recently? you might have a loose sata connector.

Astronautcowboy · Jul 17, 2009

Well, I did smack it a couple of times on the side but no big movement. I think it is the avg problem.

UPDATE: It is not avg. It must be something else.

tzitzibp · Jul 17, 2009

1 Long beep - Memory refresh circuitry has failed which indicates a problem with the motherboard. Try reseating the memory modules. Make sure if you have added memory that it is rated at the correct speed for the system.

Astronautcowboy · Jul 17, 2009

Ran memtest86 no errors 1 pass. Disk defragged. Good boost of speed but didn't work. However I did notice that when I start safe mode without networking or internet, it runs fine and didn't freeze when I was defragging. What should I do now?

tzitzibp · Jul 17, 2009

what OS are you using?
you might wanna try "system restore".....

and just something that hit me! did the internet browser do any update?

IINexusII · Jul 17, 2009

complete reinstall time, i wouldnt bother fixing the error as it could be anything

Astronautcowboy · Jul 17, 2009

I tried to restore but it wouldn't let me restore back to the point of last week before the problem began. And lately, I've been switching between Firefox 3 and 3.5. I'm on 3.5.1 now since it's the newest one. We'll see what happens. I really don't want to reinstall cause I don't have backup and I can't lose any data.

Astronautcowboy · Jul 18, 2009

Should I do a repair install of xp now? I can't do a clean install cause then I'll lose my data

phanbuey · Jul 18, 2009

can you do a stress test for us? OCCT or prime 95?

Its TBD if your issues are caused by dying hardware or software. Intel Burn Test (google) will take 15 mins to determine if your rig is stable.

If its a hardware issue, then there is no point in re-installing anything as it will all be there when and if the install ever finishes.

subhendu · Jul 18, 2009

chenge your sata cable of ur hard disk...buy a new one...it will fix ur problem

k0rn_h0li0 · Jul 18, 2009

back up. run tests. test each part out. most likely like everyone else says. PSU is about to be outta the door.

Astronautcowboy · Jul 18, 2009

Ran Intelburntest.

I really don't think it's the PSU cause it jsut cant get messed up in one day right?

phanbuey · Jul 18, 2009

subhendu said:
chenge your sata cable of ur hard disk...buy a new one...it will fix ur problem

that is exactly what I thought at first too... he listens to music which means a constant access to the disk... And i have had a loose sata cable react just like that in the past (which is why I asked if you have been moving the computer around). Everything fine then HARD LOCK...

Astronautcowboy · Jul 18, 2009

So should I check my sata cable?

phanbuey · Jul 18, 2009

Astronautcowboy said:
So should I check my sata cable?

yeah or just get a new one. its $4 - if you even have sata that p4 rig may be IDE

Astronautcowboy · Jul 18, 2009

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's sata. My DVD drives are ide. I was wrong it did do it in safe mode.

phanbuey · Jul 18, 2009

ok... try plugging the HDD into a different sata port... make sure the cable is firmly in the drive.

and reboot.

I would also back up all your data that you do not want gone at this time. DVD's or a cheapo HDD w/e.

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