Computer randomly hanging up...

[Mavrick]

My computer has been randomly hanging up for the last 3 weeks, and I still haven't found out the problem. Let me explain. I can be doing anything (playing a game or just reading AT forums) and the application suddenly freezes. The mouse is still moving though, and the MP3's continue to play. I try to push on buttons (such as the "start" button), and nothing happens (CTRL+ALT+Del does nothing). Suddenly, the mouse freeze, but the MP3 still continue to play normally.

When this happen (the first application hangs), the CPU begins to work at 100%, like if it was running an infinite loop. When the mouse has hanged, I have no choice but to reboot the computer (using the power switch).

I'm running Win2K, and I think it can be related to the OS more than the hardware (since it only began doing this a few weeks ago and the freezes are more and more frequent).

Anyway, does someone knows solution?

 

[QTPie]

could be bad RAM
Just use one stick of tested good RAM and see if the problem goes away.

still doesn't work, change the hard drive with other OS.

 

[StanTheMan]

you use geforce 2 gts rite?
try to update to the latest detonator (28.32)
it solved my problem =)

Asus A7V-133, Geforce 2 GTS, Win2K, and latest detonator.
with the previous version of driver (23.11) I had the problem, but not with the latest one.
let us knoe if you problem is solved

 

[StanTheMan]

bump
i want to knoe the result

 

[Mavrick]

Thanx, I'll try it. (I actually had solved the problem by swicthing my AGP port to 2x and disabling fastwrites). Well, I'll try the new driver.

 

[StanTheMan]

yea, I remember my system was much more stable after i used AGP 2x with 23.11 driver. With that i only experienced a lockup once in a week, and it was after 64 hour or so...

with 28.32 i had no lock up since i installed it until now (using AGP 4x). tried to run it once for more than 3 days and the system is still rock stable. also, there are some new nice feature like transprent windows, etc (nview)

overall, i like the newest driver =)

Athlon XP 1466Mhz, Asus A7V133, 1.5G PC133 SDRAM, Geforce2 GTS, SBLive