Computer keeps freezing

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Lois

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14,706 posts

253 months

Friday 6th January 2006
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Over the past week or so my laptop has been doing strange things. It has started randomly freezing, not even ctrl+alt+del works...it's literally dead!
This can happen half way through me doing something, and even part way through windows start up.
I have run virus checks, ad-aware checks and registry mechanic but it's still doing it.

DennisTheMenace

15,603 posts

269 months

Friday 6th January 2006
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Have you tried an elecric blanket and wrapping it in that ?


Could be the memory going doolaly , thats what happened on my old pooter , i rebooted it with steel toecaps and oddly enough it didnt work after

UncleDave

7,155 posts

232 months

Friday 6th January 2006
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You wouldn't believe how long it took me to work the steel toecaps bit out

And yeah I would have said Memory too.. if you've got more than one stick in, take one out and see if the prob keep occuring (as long as that doesn't leave so little memory it won't work at all ). That should help narrow it down..

Otherwise there are memory checking tools such as.. Memtest86

Dave.

Wacky Racer

38,237 posts

248 months

Friday 6th January 2006
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anonymous said:
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Happened to my Dell a few weeks ago.....

Tried everything,AVG virus scan showed no faults...

I re-formatted it,(took around 20 mins) and everything is fine now...

DennisTheMenace

15,603 posts

269 months

Friday 6th January 2006
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UncleDave said:
You wouldn't believe how long it took me to work the steel toecaps bit out


I would say roughly 4 mins