windows freezes

[entrana]

the problem is not hibernating but using the computer for more than 10 hours i think. i just have to keep restarting

 

[tkin]

i checked for bad sectors how to check for smart errors?

not hibernating "SEEMS" to solve the problem. will just stop hibernating i guess..

Use this tool and perform the S.M.A.R.T test, short DST and short Generic test.

Since the HDD is from Seagate, be carefull, my 500GB Seagate just died on me after 1.5 months of moderate use, make sure to back-up important datas regularly, don't trust Seagate.

Heres the tool;
*www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

Also my PC started to hang up just before my HDD went kaput, read my post;
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102521

 

[entrana]

yeah i backed up all my data. the sad part is my external is a seagate too ( i heard the seagate externals were fine though. thanks for the advice

 

[thelordrrulzzz]

hi digitians,
My friend has a 4 year old configuration which has started giving him some hardware problem. The configuration is as follows-
1] Celeron 2Ghz processor
2] Intel 845G chipset
3] 40Gb HDD
4] Lite-ON DVD writer
5] 512Mb DDR1 RAM

The computer was working fine till thursday but it abruptly got shut down and then it just won't start up. When he tried to power up his machine then da LED on the mobo didn't glow. So i thought it might be a problem due to a faulty SMPS so i replaced it with a spare i had.

After replacing the SMPS the LED on the motherboard glows, the DVD writer LED blinks, the keyboard's NumLock also blinks and the optical mouse is also powered up But the LED for HDD doesn't glow at all indicating absolutely no activity. All the other peripherals are absolutely fine according to him so

what do u think could be the problem???

P.S.- I thought of posting this query in this thread to avoid making extra threads and wasting BW here...No offences intended to entrana
Regards.

 

[tkin]

hi digitians,
My friend has a 4 year old configuration which has started giving him some hardware problem. The configuration is as follows-
1] Celeron 2Ghz processor
2] Intel 845G chipset
3] 40Gb HDD
4] Lite-ON DVD writer
5] 512Mb DDR1 RAM

The computer was working fine till thursday but it abruptly got shut down and then it just won't start up. When he tried to power up his machine then da LED on the mobo didn't glow. So i thought it might be a problem due to a faulty SMPS so i replaced it with a spare i had.

After replacing the SMPS the LED on the motherboard glows, the DVD writer LED blinks, the keyboard's NumLock also blinks and the optical mouse is also powered up But the LED for HDD doesn't glow at all indicating absolutely no activity. All the other peripherals are absolutely fine according to him so

what do u think could be the problem???

P.S.- I thought of posting this query in this thread to avoid making extra threads and wasting BW here...No offences intended to entrana
Regards.

The SATA power connector is unable to provide power to the HDD(if the HDD is IDE then the IDE power connector is faulty).

If you're sure the PSU's O.K then the last PSU took the HDD along with it when it died(maybe a power surge killed both the PSU and HDD)

 

[damngoodman999]

My Window is never freezing even if i open my window and keeping , is there any possibilities freezing windows in TAMIL NADU ,???

 

[tkin]

My Window is never freezing even if i open my window and keeping , is there any possibilities freezing windows in TAMIL NADU ,???

What do you mean?

 

[damngoodman999]

What do you mean?

Just kidding take it easy , the thread was shown as "WINDOWS FREEZING"

 

[satyamy]

hi digitians,
My friend has a 4 year old configuration which has started giving him some hardware problem. The configuration ................

even if your HDD gone bad you will get display

r u getting display ?
do you hear a Single Beep when you power on the PC ?
Pls specify what problem you r getting ?

if their is no display
Remove Unnecessary Component like TV Tuner Card, LAN Card if any ...
try to remove than clean than reinsert your RAM
if you have 2 RAM test both 1 by 1

i think what "tkin" said abt power is what happen with your PSU & HDD

 

[thelordrrulzzz]

@satyamy
The monitor's LED is blinking but there is absolutely no video signal on the CRT.
This implies that there is absolutely nothing coming on the CRT screen. Due to this he is not even able to log into his bios. We are thinking that the worst case scenario can be that his processor has been blown off

@tkin
Even if the HDD was killed by the PSU's power surge then it should be possible for him to enter the bios settings on boot up. So the main thing is that he just can't even enter the bios..

What do you guys think can be da problem then???

If it is the case of the processor being screwed up is there a method to verify this. I mean to check if the processor is really dead....

 

[satyamy]

recheck have u made proper Power Connection
i.e 2x2 Power Pin for Display (if the mobo need that)

may be u can try resetting (Recover) your BIOS setting using BIOS on board Jumper
*www.intel.com/design/motherbd/lc/lc_confg.htm


I dont think your Processor is gone bcoz Green Light is still blinking
May be your Mobo's Display is gone (this happen in most of my & my frnds PC's bcoz of power problem)

 

[tkin]

@satyamy
The monitor's LED is blinking but there is absolutely no video signal on the CRT.
This implies that there is absolutely nothing coming on the CRT screen. Due to this he is not even able to log into his bios. We are thinking that the worst case scenario can be that his processor has been blown off

@tkin
Even if the HDD was killed by the PSU's power surge then it should be possible for him to enter the bios settings on boot up. So the main thing is that he just can't even enter the bios..

What do you guys think can be da problem then???

If it is the case of the processor being screwed up is there a method to verify this. I mean to check if the processor is really dead....

There is an issue with old Intel mobos that when they are connected to faulty HDDs they go into a type of infinite loop that prevents them from launching the bios, you can't enter bios unless you remove the faulty HDD, you can't even boot from Discs also, to confirm remove the HDD and see what happens.

P.S-I've had the same experiance with Intel D102GGC2 mobo a couple of years back, think this case may be same.

 

[entrana]

usually when displays not up there are two reasons from my experience
1) motherboards gone kaboom(actually just a part got broken from mine)
2)try reattaching all connections including ram, processor , graphics card after cleaning them first of course. dust is the worst enemy my friend

 

[entrana]

i noticed another thing i remeber it vaguely though. today my computer hung at 5:03 sharp(seeing the computer time). yesterday too it hung at 5:03 if i remember correctly. is this some kinda new virus?

 

[tkin]

i noticed another thing i remeber it vaguely though. today my computer hung at 5:03 sharp(seeing the computer time). yesterday too it hung at 5:03 if i remember correctly. is this some kinda new virus?

May be a program is causing this, some programs are designed to automatically check for updates at certain times.

Also it may just be coincidence.

 

[entrana]

nothing with 5:03 anymore. i guess its just my bad luck

just did a virus scan, found 2 trojans. deleted em no hangs yet as of today.

noticed another thing in my boot menu. there was a smart monitoring thingee turned off. turned it on lets see how that goes now

 

[entrana]

theres no point in this thread anymore ... mods kindly close this thread