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PC freezes completely at cold start
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:54:45 +0100, "Marcel Hartgers"
wrote: Hi, My pc (AMD 1.4 G Windows XP prof 512 Mb) is 1 year old. The last month or so it freezes totally after the first cold start. After a few hard reboots, when the system warms up, it goes well for a period of time. But then maybe for an hour or 2, same problem occurs: total freeze up again. I did all the possible things like: removing video card from slot making sure the card is well connected in the slot again (Radeon 8500 LE), removing memory banks and reinstall coorectly, scan disks (virussus). So the warmer the pc gets, the fewer times the pc will lock up. I have a dulal boot, windows XP and 200 Server. Hard disk (80G Maxtor) has no errors what so ever. Couls this be a motherboard problem or maybe the video card ?? thanks, Marcel It is possible that the video card is to blame, but if you're assuming it's the video card because the video on-the-monitor is doing nothing, you'd be jumping to conclusions, that will happen with other problems too. What make/model/capacity of motherboard and power supply? Is there any pattern to exactly what it's doing when it freezes? It freezes on both OS, WinXP and 2K ? Have you checked the motherboard voltages with BIOS screen, windows hardware monitor utility? Have you checked power supply voltages with a voltage meter? Do you have access to any extra hardware you might swap in, like the video card or power supply? Generally problems when cold are either bad connections with cards or cables, or failing capacitors in power supply, motherboard, video card. Dave |
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