Jokeface wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
> I've been using my computer for months now and was very happy with it,
> recently I've been getting lockups at least once a day random times, I
> am unsure of what is causing this, I have to hard restart/turnoff the
> PC, which can corrupt my system.
>
> I run window updates often, so im sure it isnt drivers or anything
> plus installed every update ASUS had on their website for my
> motherboard. I also clean & defrag both of my hard disks often. Ran
> diagnostics on ram too, no problems found...
>
> Specs are as follows:
> My OS is Vista 32 Home premium SP1
> Motherboard: ASUS P5KPL-VM
> 2GB of ram
> Geforce 8600 GT
> (anything missing?)
>
> I think that the tutorial about restoring the User folders (my music,
> pictures etc) may have something to do with this, since I had problems
> the 1st time missing music and a duplicate picture folder. I used the
> manual regedit option which worked, only after 3 restarts with boot
> failures and an inactive graphics card, but it worked later on. It could
> be this.
>
> Any Ideas? Could it be registry corruption?
Random lockups such as you describe are rarely caused by software. They are
usually caused by failing hardware and/or overheating. Do some hardware
troubleshooting:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot
Testing hardware failures often involves swapping out suspected parts with
known-good parts. If you can't do the testing yourself and/or are
uncomfortable opening your computer, take the machine to a professional
computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of
BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). If possible, have all your data backed up
before you take the machine into a shop.
Malke
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