Hey,

Lately my Vista machine has been acting weird. When in any program whether it be, FireFox, Chrome, Minecraft, etc. The program will "Stop responding" and then everything else on my system will stop responding also, then it will freeze for about 30 seconds, this happens almost every 5 minutes.

It was happening so I formatted my HDD and re-installed Vista, but it still is happening, I'm not sure if its a hardware issue or not. I doubt there is anything on my system that could cause this to happen, nor have I overclocked anything, other than my GPU which was overlocked (black edition) when I bought it new.

I have also looked at my temperatures, nothing seems unusual, my GPU runs around 55C idle, and my CPU runs around 38C idle, my chassis temp is around 30C, and I have also cleaned my system out from any dust/hair, etc. I'm pretty sure all my drivers are up to date.

Specs:
AMD Phenom II x6 1055T 2.80GHz
ATI/AMD HD5850 1GB GDDR5
8GB DDR3 1666MHz RAM
Retail +Plus 650 WATT PSU
Asus M4A77T/USB3 motherboard
1TB WD 7200RPM HDD

So can anyone help me figure out what might be the problem as this is really making my frustrated.

Thanks,
Archey

- No point to run AV scan, as its a clean OS.
- Memtest won't help as I've swapped out for brand new ram, still happens.
- Safe mode won't really do much since its a new OS, and It happens while running programs.
- Not OCed
- Have monitored hear, they're normal.
- Not sure how to tell if my PSU is faulty but I've had it for about 2 years

Originally Posted by richc46

Originally Posted by Archey

- No point to run AV scan, as its a clean OS.
- Memtest won't help as I've swapped out for brand new ram, still happens.
- Safe mode won't really do much since its a new OS, and It happens while running programs.
- Not OCed
- Have monitored hear, they're normal.
- Not sure how to tell if my PSU is faulty but I've had it for about 2 years

Run memory test, possibly you need to reseat the sticks
Run in safe mode and give me the results
Read the post, unless you have done the specific test, do it now.

I've tried running memtest86, when i downloaded it, it was just a bunch of source files, is there a guide on how to install it?

Well ran in Safe mode with Networking, Did some browsing on the internet testing out lockups and it didn't seem to crash. It's weird because about a month back it was doing this, I formatted and re-installed and it kept on.

Originally Posted by richc46

Maybe we found something. Perform a clean boot. This may give us the cause
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

link you gave gives a 404