Freezing Problems

Gretzky

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Dec 28, 2001
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This problem only happens once in a while.

This morning i was browsing the web and when I double clicked on "my computer" ( to listen to some mp3s ) the folder wouldnt open, it would just sit there until my computer would freeze. Could this be because of my hard drives? I pressed the reboot button but the comp wouldnt load to windows, it would just stay at the bios looking for my drives until I had to turn off and on my computer.

A month ago i ran a diagnostics check on my hard drives and the IBM drive has a bad cluster, so I did a low level format.

Could this also be because of my motherboard? Before i had the MSI K7T Pro2a but my newbie overclocking skillz fried it so I had to buy a new mobo from a local comp shop, its called BIOstar. And yes i formated both of my hard drives before i installed the hard drives and yes I got all the latest drivers, patchs and bios.

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*-=System Specs=-*
BIOSTAR m7vkd
300w Sparkle PSU
AMD Athlon T-bird 1.1GHz [no o/c]
384SDRAM [PC-133, CL=3]
IBM Deskstar 30GB [7200rpm]
Western Digital 40GB [5400rpm](slave)
Visiontek Geforce2 GTS 64MB
SB Live! Value
Pioneer DVD 16X/40X w/Hardware MPEG-2 IDE
PlexWriter 12X/10X/32X CDR-W IDE
S4 Midiland 8200 Speaker System
Linksys 10/100 NIC
ViewSonic PF790
Windows ME
Total of 5 fans [3-80mms , 2-60mm]
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John P

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Oct 9, 1999
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It could be a lot of things, a missing file or a hardware conflict. I always go through the same sequence of steps when this happens and I've fixed it every time:

1) Reload Directx 8.1
2) Uninstall and reinstall Windows Media Player
3) Reinstall Video and Sound card drivers
4) Make sure all other drivers are current.

If that doesn't work

5) Remove everyting but vid card
6) Start reinstalling cards one at a time until problem starts up again

Last time this happened it was my USB Ethernet adaptor. I switched to a NIC and everything works fine.