Thread: How a PC keeps Freezing in WinXP

It was freezing akin to crazy so I leaved and purchased this Thermal Paste TC-1996 for 5 bucks at a local PC store and yet then it yet freezes just not as regularly. My CPU didn't forever have a paste on it, I unmounted the heat sink to clean it in the past frequent times and never put a novel paste on. Could it be enduringly injured? Also, does it matter which paste to employ? Somebody suggested I obtain Arctic Silver 5 or something of that sort. But I just don’t desire to expect newegg a few days and wanted something right away.

And finally, what is the point of Thermal Paste anyhow? What does it invented to do? Because the one I acquired doesn't appear to be doing it and my system yet freezes at weird and unknown times. I acquired to close all the apps on the bottom correct to stop these freezes.

My specification:

AGP 4X/8X HDCP Ready Video Card
80GB Maxtor HDD or 200G Seagate (master)
3 gigs of RAM (Corsair 2 sticks regular of 1 each, and the 3rd XML)
ASUS AH3650 SILENT/HTDI/512M Radeon HD 3650 512MB 128-bit GDDR2
500GB Wester Digitital ATI or whatever the form
Coolmax AP-550X Power Supply
ASUSTek Computer INC Mobo (A7N8X)
AMD Athlon XP: Thoroughbred, Socket A 2100+ (overclocked it to 1.83 GHz)

There could be injuring to your CPU. How long did it leave without paste of any type? Hours, days, weeks?

Also I am not certain or not. I am sure somebody here recognizes more about RAM then I do. But I would always attempt to have matching sets. I noticed you have two dissimilar types of RAM in your system. I deduction if they are the similar speed it desire matter.

The CPU didn't not have thermal paste. I just never reapplied the thermal paste when I’d control a different CPU and captivating my old back and setting it in. the old white paste was forever recycled on my heat sink. And it was sufficient I guess yet about a month when my pc would remains freezing every hour. Now I opened it up last week and washed half more of that white grease and it started freezing every 5 mins.

Confirm the model figures of your hard drives and confirm on the manufacturer’s web site if they are SATA I or II.Confirm that your motherboard's chipset supports Native Command Queing/Tagged Command Queuing hard drives (SATA II). Your motherboard's chipset may not support NCQ/TCQ hard drives (SATA II). Using a SATA II hard drive with a chipset that doesn't support it will cause the machine to freeze intermittently. If this is the case then the key is a Promise Controller card.

I have the Deluxe edition of the MB operating for many years. The board was launched previous to SATA and does not support SATA HDs. I have the AMD Athlon 3200. The MB is particular with RAM and acquires hot rapidly when Ocing. Possibly try setting the RAM speed, timing and voltage physically in BIOS. Increase the RAM voltage to 2.6v.

But guys, I contain NEVER had this difficulty and ran this HD (it is SATA 1), and RAM for years. Also, the Mobo arrived with SATA cords and sata plugs inside the mobo. So it MUST be companionable with SATA.

The good old Athlon XP's sprint Hot and your old CPU perhaps dead. A bad CPU may boot and provide a signal but will execute actually poorly and crash. I would try underclocking it... attempt running it as slow as probable to observe if it helps stability.

I would also speculate how well the motherboard is as those old boards also aren’t undying as they have older capacitors. Also I remember how frequently I stabbed those motherboards with a flat screwdriver while eliminating the heat sync... thank god novel computers no longer have that subject. Anyways, pm me your address I should be capable of ship you an AthlonXP 3000+ that I have laying around collecting dust. Should run well and I don't think shipping will cost me much as the object is small.

Yeah that's what I been doing. It was the only mode I could sprint this game in any way.

I ran it at 1500 last night and it worked devoid of crashing once. Today though it crashed so I'm underclocking it yet more. It’s at 1266 MHz now and so far no trouble but I don't recognize when or when... don’t yet want to say it.

And hell yes I went my poor mobo so many times I was scared it would break, but it's the only way I can mod my sinker on.

And thanks. If you can't discover the CPU don’t fret about it though. Also, is it true that Barton models (I suppose yours is since it’s 3000+) only permit you to run 2 gigz of ram max? Otherwise the mobo runs into troubles? I'm operating a thoroughbred type and I listened to that the 3200+ Barton ones are akin to that.

I acquired a novel CPU from eBay (2700+) and I’m having the similar problem. I believe it's my video card. I've had troubles with it in the past. It would crash when I’d be playing Wow as a minimum some times a week.