Vista Tutorial - complete freeze/lockup

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?

what's your temps like?
maybe your system is overheating.
scrooge

Jokeface wrote:
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
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

Thanks for the reply,
I dont think it's overheating, I've been playing a game for 2 hours and no lockup. Usualy it happends shortly after startup, and sometimes later on. Today I only had one lockup.
Ill test my hardware and see what happends.

hafizahmad wrote:

Spam. Reported.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

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