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Freezing and rebooting problems

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Porumy

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Hey, I'm new here. To begin, after countless times of freezes and reboots occuring on my PC. I have come to the point of where I can throw my PC out of the window.

These problems have been happening for quite a long time, like 2-3 years to now.
Here's the problem:

My computer has been freezing or rebooting like an addict whenever I play games or open one simple program. It has even rebooted and freezed upon reaching the desktop after windows finishes loading up. I do not know what the problem is. It happened even before I changed my video card which was a nvidia geforce 4 to a Radeon 9200.
So I doubt it's a graphics card problem.

Once, I tried cleaning the dust inside my PC and it worked flawlessly for a year. Then it started to act up again so I came to the conclusion that it was dusty. I cleaned it up and booted the PC. Afterwards, I played a few games. In the end it rebooted or froze and ever since it has been like that.

Recently, I tried cleaning up the fans since it was incredibly dusty and it still didn't solve the problem. Well a minor detail was that I noticed a change in my fans sound which resulted into the computer making less noise. Oh goody!

Please help! My pc is freaking pissing me off.

Here are my specs:
AMD Athlon 2600+ 2.13ghz
Radeon 9200
2x512mb of ram (One of them was a kingston and the other one came with the PC)
2x60GB Hardrive (Dunno what the brand is, it came with the PC)
Windows XP Home

Note: The 512 mb of ram by kingston was added later on with the Radeon 9200.
 
Hmm, there are a number of things that could be the culprit. I'll just make a checklist of
the ones on the top of my mind.
- Have you updated the drivers for all of your components?
- Did this freeze start after you added the 2nd ram chip? If so, try removing it.
- Cleaning the dust out not only makes it look nicer, but keeps the temps down. Use a
utility like speedfan or everest home edition to monitor your system temps.
- If it started freezing after the video card was put in, you may not have removed all the
previous drivers. If it started after the ATI card was put in, use a free program called
DriverCleaner to remove it and reinstall the drivers.

 
Have you updated the drivers for all of your components?
Well, yes for my video card. But the catalyst control center slows down the loading of windows xp.

Did this freeze start after you added the 2nd ram chip? If so, try removing it.
No it started way before that.

Cleaning the dust out not only makes it look nicer, but keeps the temps down. Use a
utility like speedfan or everest home edition to monitor your system temps.
Hmm, I'll try using that program.

If it started freezing after the video card was put in, you may not have removed all the
previous drivers. If it started after the ATI card was put in, use a free program called
DriverCleaner to remove it and reinstall the drivers.
No, it started like at the time I still had my gefore 4 card.

Also, the manufacturer for this pc is Compaq. It's the S3300NX series.
 
You also went up to a better video card, which draws more power. If you have
a spare power supply lying around, you might want to try it out.

There is also a memory test program (called MemTest I think) that I've read about
on these forums that you can run to test out your ram. Maybe your original ram chip
is the one that is bad?
 
I don't have an extra power supply.

I left it on for quite awhile that Memtest thing and it said 120%. When I ended the test it said 0 errors. So it's not the ram I guess. It might be heat problems maybe.
 
Check for bulging or leaking capacitors.

I just replaced my old NF2 board because of this. The new one came with the same crappy caps, so it'll have to go in the trash eventually too.
 
They are the small cylinders that stick up on the motherboard. He is referring to looking at them and noticing if they are nicely rounded, or if some look bulging, like they might burst or have already burst.
 
I think I found my problem. It seems to be due to overheating issues. By speeding up my fans, my computer stopped freezing. Thanks for your helps guys.
 
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