system lockup

Hi, My system boots up fine until I get to the pretty login picture. I can either touch the mouse or hit any key and the little box for my login password always appeared until yesterday. Now I have to wait about 45 to 50 seconds before the system reacts correctly to my request to enter my...

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 PP29L running Windows Vista. The system freezes while booting from the HDD. During a boot into safe mode the system locks up at Loaded: \Windows\system 32\drivers\crcdisk.sys I have been trying to boot from a Windows Vista install disk, but it freezes as well. It...

Have an interesting issue with explorer.exe locking up when I try to close photo viewer within several minutes, but only if I open the picture file from the desktop. Opening photos from within a folder anywhere else on the system it opens and closes fine (no need to wait). If I let it sit for...

I built a new system two months ago and did all the stress test and memtest etc. however, over the past 48 hours my system has started to lock up, the mouse would still move and I can interact with open windows for a few seconds before they also start to freeze up. After 1-2 minutes all open...

I'm encountering odd problems while trying to rebuild my Windows 7 desktop PC. Background: I purchased my desktop PC (a Dell Studio XPS 435 MT, with Radeon HD4670 and dual monitors) about three years ago. It came with Windows Vista. Soon after I received this PC, I formatted the system...

I've got 4 hard disks (1 system, 3 storage) that are varying degrees of full from 25%-85%. Occasionally, my system will just bog down and I can hear what sounds like a hard drive winding up or something and my system locks up for maybe 5 seconds and then I can use it again. This seems to happen...

To anyone able to help, A month ago I bought a reasonably high-end gaming PC with the following setup: Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2 motherboard with integrated network card and Creative Labs X-Fi sound card SilverStone ST1500 (1500W) PSU 2 x EVGA (NVIDIA) GeForce GTX 580 set up in SLI 16 Gb DDR3 RAM...

Hi All, I'm having problems with my computer I built some time ago now. From time to time it will completely stop responding and need to be reset using the power switch (sound also hangs if there is any at the time). This will happen very frequently when the RAM is in a dual channel...

Any Virtual XP experts here? I found this system to be very fragile. The problem is that I cannot update the XP. On rebooting after the first update, the whole thing goes pear-shaped and eventually locks up and requires re-installation. My solution to now is to switch off updates. Hardly an...

This is going to take a bit of explanation. So three days ago I installed crysis, i know its been 3 years. That is the last change I made to my system until today. Today, my modem started loosing and gaining connection every 5 min or so. I called up comcast and asked them what to do. The tech...

Hi everyone! I installed windows 7 build 7600 on my computer and have this strange problem. First of all, I was using XP and it's still on my compuıter. I just created a new part on my harddisk and formatted it and installed 7 there. So here is what happened: I tried to install Windows 7 from...

Sorry if this has been covered before but this problem is diving me mad. Running 64 bit windows 7. using an external seagate freeagent desktop 750GB and a 250GB sata hard drive in a winstar hard drive dock. Boot up and everything works fine. After a period of time - usually about 30mins. both...

Hey guys! I just joined here and I'm having a major problem with my computer. Two days ago I upgraded my desktop computer from Windows XP Home to Windows 7 Pro. I'm studying at University and was granted access to the OS through a website called MSDN, a place that offers free software to...

Specs: ATX Aerocool VX-R case Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard Gigabyte Radeon HD-4550 1TB Western Digital RE3 HDD 630W Rosewill Green series psu 2Gb (2x1gb) DDR2 Crucial Ballistix Tracer Ram @1066 2 HP 1260i dvd burners Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66Ghz Problems: im trying to install Windows 7...

(Windows 7 64 bit) ok ive been reading thru what alot of people have been doing for the blue screen and all and i havnt seen anything like what ive been having problems with. i have gotten a blue screen three seperate times while one just being on the internet, and the other two times while...

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could point out something I am doing wrong, I would appreciate any help what so ever. I just made a new desktop here are the specs: E8400 stock Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L 775 P43 EVGA Nvidia 9800 GT 4 GB Corsair ddr2 ram used WD Raptor 150 GB 64 bit iso directly...

For the rest of the story (and the intro), see: Link Removed and its linked topic... I thought the title wasn't appropriate to the content so I'm starting yet another topic on the matter. So, today my laptop has entered a new realm of instability. The "infection" (NOT literal... figurative) is...

Hello everyone, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, build 7048, and I'm having random freezes. The system just locks up randomly. It could be after 5 minutes, but it could also be after 5 hours. I have no idea what's causing it. Specs are: AMD Phenom 9650 x4 2x2GB GEIL DDR2 800 Mhz ATI Radeon...

This is driving me nuts, as i don't see many others with same issue. All steam games crash within 3-6 minutes. Locks up so bad, it takes a power down/reboot. 7 sits on its own partition, fresh install, newest ATI drivers for 7 were installed, yet to no avail. Not seeing it here yet, but ive read...

about a week ago i changed my performance settings to "adjust for best performance" i changed my settings so i can get the best performance while gaming. after the change and reboot i started to play solitaire in full screen the sound was very choppy and the cards would lag. i then went back to...