Need advice...Random PC hanging

• nlwy

  4 Apr 08, 19:31

  Yup..as stated above..of late my PC has been hanging quite randomly..sometimes when online sometimes when offline..somedays many times somedays hardly... Quite irritating esp when doing work halfway.. I brought it to Sim Lim to repair..the guy ran tests on motherboard and graphics card but all seems to be okay.  I just scanned for virus today..almost finished than it hang..but until it hang got no virus.  I'm using mio wireless for internet connection.  My PC is AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 1.5GHz, 1.5GB RAM.  OS is XP Home with Service Pack 2.  Anyone there can help or advice..will appreciate it..tks in advance..

• eagle

  4 Apr 08, 22:31

  My laptop also like that... The solution suggested by IBM after I sent in my laptop was a fresh install of windows...

  Only I haven't do yet cuz I got many things on the hard disk now and no time to back up properly.

• ndmmxiaomayi

  4 Apr 08, 22:45

  1. Have you check for hard disk errors?

  2. What programs have been installed and/or uninstalled recently?

  3. How much hard disk space is left? What is the total amount of hard disk space you have?

• nlwy

  4 Apr 08, 23:06

  I think the guy at sim lim did check the hard disks..i have two internal hdd..both 70GB and one external 320GB..all got quite alot space left.  As for programs i think my PC started having this problem after i installed the mio wireless..is it possible tt tt is the prob?

• BrUtUs

  4 Apr 08, 23:09

  Originally posted by nlwy:

  Yup..as stated above..of late my PC has been hanging quite randomly..sometimes when online sometimes when offline..somedays many times somedays hardly... Quite irritating esp when doing work halfway.. I brought it to Sim Lim to repair..the guy ran tests on motherboard and graphics card but all seems to be okay.  I just scanned for virus today..almost finished than it hang..but until it hang got no virus.  I'm using mio wireless for internet connection.  My PC is AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 1.5GHz, 1.5GB RAM.  OS is XP Home with Service Pack 2.  Anyone there can help or advice..will appreciate it..tks in advance..

  
  hdd got sound?

• nlwy

  5 Apr 08, 01:55

  nope...

• MyPillowTalks

  5 Apr 08, 06:47

  Best way is to back up everything, reinstall windows

  
  or u can try to do some defragment, or use the free up space on ur harddisk thing

   

  im also on athlon xp, but is 2400+

• nlwy

  5 Apr 08, 11:51

  Just wondering..is my PC's specs considered very slow and outdated? Is it sufficient to do video/photo editing?

• ndmmxiaomayi

  5 Apr 08, 12:36

  Depends on what is your definition of slow... editing photos/videos on that specs will definitely be slow... if normal usage... it can't be as slow as a P2.

  Outdated... I hardly call hardware outdated unless they are hard to get in the modern world.

• eagle

  5 Apr 08, 12:39

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Depends on what is your definition of slow... editing photos/videos on that specs will definitely be slow... if normal usage... it can't be as slow as a P2.

  Outdated... I hardly call hardware outdated unless they are hard to get in the modern world.

  
  how about the 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive that's still lying in my house somewhere I think?

• ndmmxiaomayi

  5 Apr 08, 12:43

  Originally posted by eagle:

  
  how about the 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive that's still lying in my house somewhere I think?

  That is old... haha...

• eagle

  5 Apr 08, 13:06

  Also cannot remember if I still have the 800mb hard disk

• nlwy

  5 Apr 08, 13:08

  thanks guys..so you dont think that my com's processor is too slow thats why it hang randomly?  also..if i'm going to reinstall windows and i got two internal hdd, i only need to backup the hdd that the OS runs on right? 'C' drive.. 

  As for video/photo editing actually i dun do it that much nowadays..scared wait do halfway nv save than hang than waste time..:) haha

• eagle

  5 Apr 08, 13:10

  Originally posted by nlwy:

  thanks guys..so you dont think that my com's processor is too slow thats why it hang randomly?  also..if i'm going to reinstall windows and i got two internal hdd, i only need to backup the hdd that the OS runs on right? 'C' drive.. 

  As for video/photo editing actually i dun do it that much nowadays..scared wait do halfway nv save than hang than waste time..:) haha

  should be... but if there's anything extremely important in D drive, back it up too. Don't risk it... Anyway you would need to back up your important documents often, whether you are reinstalling or reformatting a not.

• SmaLLDoG

  7 Apr 08, 23:25

  Hi, recently my computer will suddenly black out and turn off.

  any one can help me to identify whether is this an hardware problem or software?

   

• BrUtUs

  7 Apr 08, 23:32

  Originally posted by SmaLLDoG:

  Hi, recently my computer will suddenly black out and turn off.

  any one can help me to identify whether is this an hardware problem or software?

   

  
  ur power settings?

• manyu882

  8 Apr 08, 08:41

  should be

  1. psu faulty

  2. usb device(s) causing probs

   

  add on..

• thoreldan

  8 Apr 08, 19:59

  could be RAM

• ndmmxiaomayi

  9 Apr 08, 13:56

  Originally posted by SmaLLDoG:

  Hi, recently my computer will suddenly black out and turn off.

  any one can help me to identify whether is this an hardware problem or software?

  Most likely hardware.