- Feb 11, 2015
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My pc has been randomly freezing on simple tasks like opening netflix and even sitting at idle. I'll tell you guys the story of what's been going on with my computer, just so you get a good idea of what's going on.
I was just about to buy a new GPU for my pc, until I shut it off one day and it wouldn't turn back on again. I fiddled around with it for a while, making sure that my wires were all plugged in, until i tried taking the power cable out and plugging it back in again. I didn't expect this to work, because there was a light on my motherboard inside of the pc, but it did. I turned the pc back on, and it worked good for a while. Then, I took it outside, and sprayed it with a can of air to get the dust out of it. I had already been planning to do this for a few days, as almost all of my fans had been covered in dust and it was starting to worry me. I took the pc back inside, set it up, and turned it on. so far so good.
I walked away for a while, and came back to find that the whole thing was locked up and the cursor was stuck as the little spinning loading icon. I could still move the cursor around, but it the rest of the pc was locked up. I shut it off, turned it back on, and it worked good for a few minutes. I thought everything was alright, until it just randomly froze in the middle of watching a youtube video. At this point, I couldnt even turn the thing back on. It would get to the windows 7 icon, and would just sit there before I could get to the login screen.
I decided that it was time for a fresh install. I popped in my windows 7 disk, and after trial and error, (for some reason my hard drive wouldn't show up until I unplugged it and plugged it back in to the sata ports. weird, right?) I finally got it to fresh install. It's been running fine so far all day, until I installed the latest windows 7 update.
I thought that this would be the end of my troubles. I had done a complete fresh install of windows, and I would be clear skies from here on out. Or so I thought. I started to download some of my steam games (I wanted to try out payday 2 while it was free this week. I guess that wont be happening.) in the background while I was about to go watch some netflix, but the whole pc froze AGAIN the moment I hit enter after typing netflix.com into my browser.
At this point, I was losing my cool and was about to put an axe through my pc. I booted it back up again, tried to open up netflix again, but BOOM. Crash.
I had ruled out the possibility of it being corrupted files in my old windows version, since I had fresh installed, and I only have 3 last ideas about what this could be. GPU, HDD (even though I just bought a brand new one a few months ago), or driver issues. I'm installing new drivers now, but until I can test these out and see how it runs, I would like some help from you guys. If anybody has any suggestions, please reply.
Thanks
I was just about to buy a new GPU for my pc, until I shut it off one day and it wouldn't turn back on again. I fiddled around with it for a while, making sure that my wires were all plugged in, until i tried taking the power cable out and plugging it back in again. I didn't expect this to work, because there was a light on my motherboard inside of the pc, but it did. I turned the pc back on, and it worked good for a while. Then, I took it outside, and sprayed it with a can of air to get the dust out of it. I had already been planning to do this for a few days, as almost all of my fans had been covered in dust and it was starting to worry me. I took the pc back inside, set it up, and turned it on. so far so good.
I walked away for a while, and came back to find that the whole thing was locked up and the cursor was stuck as the little spinning loading icon. I could still move the cursor around, but it the rest of the pc was locked up. I shut it off, turned it back on, and it worked good for a few minutes. I thought everything was alright, until it just randomly froze in the middle of watching a youtube video. At this point, I couldnt even turn the thing back on. It would get to the windows 7 icon, and would just sit there before I could get to the login screen.
I decided that it was time for a fresh install. I popped in my windows 7 disk, and after trial and error, (for some reason my hard drive wouldn't show up until I unplugged it and plugged it back in to the sata ports. weird, right?) I finally got it to fresh install. It's been running fine so far all day, until I installed the latest windows 7 update.
I thought that this would be the end of my troubles. I had done a complete fresh install of windows, and I would be clear skies from here on out. Or so I thought. I started to download some of my steam games (I wanted to try out payday 2 while it was free this week. I guess that wont be happening.) in the background while I was about to go watch some netflix, but the whole pc froze AGAIN the moment I hit enter after typing netflix.com into my browser.
At this point, I was losing my cool and was about to put an axe through my pc. I booted it back up again, tried to open up netflix again, but BOOM. Crash.
I had ruled out the possibility of it being corrupted files in my old windows version, since I had fresh installed, and I only have 3 last ideas about what this could be. GPU, HDD (even though I just bought a brand new one a few months ago), or driver issues. I'm installing new drivers now, but until I can test these out and see how it runs, I would like some help from you guys. If anybody has any suggestions, please reply.
Thanks
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