PC Is Randomly Freezing Completely At Uncommon Times
Oct 25, 2009
This started happening recently. I haven't changed any settings on my computer either.Basically, my PC is randomly freezing completely at uncommon times. Sometimes it goes all day without freezing, other times it's only 30 minutes. It just happens randomly for no reason.A quick restart fixes it, only until it freezes again, though sometimes it needs to be restarted twice since it sometimes freezes during the first screen of the POST.What normally would cause this to happen and how would I go about fixing it?
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Jan 29, 2006
For odd reasons, my computer likes to freeze when I'm doing anything. I'm using a new eMachines, and it has an AMD 64-bit processer. I have lots of memory too. 512 mb. So if anyone knows of any fixes, please let me know.
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im running on windows xp but for the past week or so my computer has been running extremely slow constantly freezing and at least 3 times a day it restarts on its own and i desperately need it to work because its the only computer with a printer and i have alot of things that need to be typed as soon as possible please someone help me out
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I threw in my XP cd for a re-install but it says my version of windows is newer then the one on the cd, and after thinking about it, if this is a serious problem, having to re-install windows, all of my drivers for my 3rd party hardware and then update everything might not be worth the effort if I can just get a new computer. I have been pondering for a while of purchasing a mac for my next round of computer purchases so if it comes down to that, hardware and software costs from my current system are not a major issue. So is my computer just slowly dying like a used car, or what might be the problem?
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I've never formatted before so not to sure how. My main worry is the pc not restarting. I have a start up cd that came with my pc but i have no windows xp cd it came pre installed.
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So - from the client, I can
1) See the Internet fine
2) Ping the host fine
3) Ping the root host (1) fine
From the host I can
1) See the Internet fine
2) When I ping the client, it returns REQUEST TIMED OUT
Both computers are members of the same group.
Both seem to connect fine to the Internet at all times, no problems.
The host computer, sees ITSELF, in that, if you map a drive, and you click on Microsoft Windows Network, then the group name, you SEE the computer name.
On the client, when you click on the same group, it stalls, and you see NOTHING - neither the client NOR the host (despite being able to PING the host)
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What do I do to resolve "Request Timed Out"?
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From the client, you can ping the client,(itself) and it responds.
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