Suggestions to track freezing problem?

[marcus]

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For some reason, my PCs begun freezing several times a day. The only
way out is to press the reset button. I'm running Windows XP Pro w/
SP2. The problem begain a few days ago, and no new software or
hardware was installed. I have scanned the disk for errors, defragged,
ran a full virus scan with AVG, scanned with AdAware and Spybot S&D,
reseated all the hardware, cleaned out the dust as best as I could,
looked at the system and application logs where nothing unusual
appears that I can tell. So my question is, is there some kind of
utility either built into XP or downloadable that I can have running
that logs everything going on so I can see what is happening when the
freeze occurs? But I suppose logging EVERYTHING may not prove too
useful as it may be huge and make no sense to me. In any case, does
anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed further to track the
problem? I am about to run Memtest86 and see if my memory checks out.
Any other hardware diagnostic tools out there to be recommended?

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,
Marcus

 

[Guest]

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Hi Marcus,

Logging won't help if this is a hardware issue, and freezing usually is.
Check the memory first, but you may find that a trip to your friendly local
pc shop will be necessary for proper diagnosis unless you have the means to
start swapping hardware. If you want to check the memory, there are free
programs here:

http://www.simmtester.com/page/products/doc/download.asp
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Marcus" <holysmokes99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1783abaf.0501091021.2af2ae27@posting.google.com...
> For some reason, my PCs begun freezing several times a day. The only
> way out is to press the reset button. I'm running Windows XP Pro w/
> SP2. The problem begain a few days ago, and no new software or
> hardware was installed. I have scanned the disk for errors, defragged,
> ran a full virus scan with AVG, scanned with AdAware and Spybot S&D,
> reseated all the hardware, cleaned out the dust as best as I could,
> looked at the system and application logs where nothing unusual
> appears that I can tell. So my question is, is there some kind of
> utility either built into XP or downloadable that I can have running
> that logs everything going on so I can see what is happening when the
> freeze occurs? But I suppose logging EVERYTHING may not prove too
> useful as it may be huge and make no sense to me. In any case, does
> anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed further to track the
> problem? I am about to run Memtest86 and see if my memory checks out.
> Any other hardware diagnostic tools out there to be recommended?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Cheers,
> Marcus