Computer freezing up

[nikimcbee]

For some reason, my desktop totally freezes up (except for the mouse):stare: after about 5 min of running. I took the hard drive out and hooked it up to my laptop and scanned it; no viruses. So I plugged it back in and it ran once w/o crashing, but now it freezes up again.:shifty: I was thinking it was a zonealarm problem; I removed ZA, but it still crashes.

Any I deas how to fix this?:hmmm:

[FIREWALL]

Lets hope money doesn't have to get involved. :cry:

I cross my fingers for luck for you. Probably something simple. :yep: :DL

If all else fails ... " Think Positive " Then ... KICK IT. :03:

[nikimcbee]

Lets hope money doesn't have to get involved. :cry:

I cross my fingers for luck for you. Probably something simple. :yep: :DL

If all else fails ... " Think Positive " Then ... KICK IT. :03:

what button do you push for "safe mode" again?:oops:
"f" something @ start-up.

[FIREWALL]

I saaaid KICK IT. :har:

Don't know about f key. :doh:

[Dimitrius07]

What was the last time you clean the dust from your PC? Dust + PC = enemy. Pay attention to PC and PCI slots, maybe that helps.

[HunterICX]

what button do you push for "safe mode" again?:oops:
"f" something @ start-up.

press F8 just before the windows splash screen (at least thats how it works when you run Windows XP)

HunterICX

[Loud_Silence]

May be overheating. Look at the CPU heatsink and fan and make sure they dont have dust

[Arclight]

Seems like HD that stops responding to me, maybe get a SMART readout to check it's overall health and performance.