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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Diginovice on March 16, 2011, 10:02

Title: PC constantly freezing programs
Post by: Diginovice on March 16, 2011, 10:02

My computer has picked up this annoying habit of stopping and freezing pretty much any program I

run every 2 to 10 minutes. No matter the program, everything from WoW to windows explorer

(actually froze firefox after typing that), the program will freeze and I will get the "not responding"

message most of the time. The amount of time it will lock up varies roughly between 5-30 seconds

and sometimes longer.

My anti-virus(avast) tells me I'm clean, and I have defragmented and cleaned out my HDD. I even

went through and cleaned as much dust as I could find inside my computer and still to no avail. I have

no real idea what is causing this. If anyone could help narrow my problem down I would greatly

appreciate it.

My specs are:
Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO
2GB of DDR2 RAM
250GB HDD

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Love to play games with my Mini Laptop Degee

Title: Re: PC constantly freezing programs
Post by: Rik on March 16, 2011, 10:31

Have you looked in the events log?

Title: Re: PC constantly freezing programs
Post by: Simon on March 16, 2011, 11:42

Have you tried reseating the graphics card?

Title: Re: PC constantly freezing programs
Post by: daveeb on March 16, 2011, 13:35

Or have you tried running a diagnostic on the hard drive ?