computer likes to freeze

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junwang0808

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recently my computer tends to freeze once in a while. especially, when i was trying to skip movies on my computer. the whole computer will freeze. i tried changing my rams, changing my graphic cards ( it helped a little bit ). but i still having the same problem. do you guys think i need to reformate my computer or repair it? the problem happened after my anti virus had detected a whole bunch of virus and some stuff got deleted.
 
Well, make sure your case is cleaned out and there is proper air flow.
Did any important stuff get deleted that you know of?
Maybe you could do a repair of windows and see if that helps any.
 
What kinda gpu? If its anything dedicated and more than an 8800gt or 4850 then its probably your power supply, as even that thermaltake 420W wont handle a quadcore and a high end gpu..If it is even a thermaltake 420W, if it is an off brand 420W power supply than it is definately the issue.
 
That ram is´nt conflicting is it ? I´m just wondering , you could try to take out those two 512 sticks. A lot of times mixed ram is´nt a good idea.
 
i tired to put in brand new RAMs 2 X 2GB, put in a brand new 9800gt, still having the same problem. i think something in system 32 got deleted. my computer is started to have problem playing videos, even on youtube, it will get laggy sometimes. however, i tried a new graphic card as i stated already, it helped a little but not much.

sometimes i feel like one of my core is not working or something, for example, my explorer would freeze when i open a new page, but when i click on resume my Warcraft III ( minimized before), my game was running perfectly fine. when i tried to zoom back out, my computer would remain frozen due to the frozen internet explorer. it doesn't just happen on my MAXthon explorer, i tried firefox, IE 7, getting same sympton for all.

can't be my powersuppy, as i have antec 850W, been using it for over a year for my 8800GT and didn't have any trouble.

this is hard part, if ram and graphic cards are not the issue, is my quad core is broken????
 
Your pain is my pain. I have been experiencing a similar issue. I have basically built 2 completely seperate computers using the same Thermaltake Armor+ case and experienced the same issue. I started off with something more like your system, intel quad core extreme processor, asus striker II extreme mb, 4 gb ddr3 ram corsiar (swapped for kingston after freezing began, didnt help), bfg 9800x2 graphics card, 850watt thermaltake power suppy, 300gb velociraptor drive and 1tb green drive.

Worked fine for about 2 months then started freezing during games, then it progressively got worse over the following month to the point that it would freeze before it would even post sometimes. I checked all the settings and components I could and eventually parted it out. I then switched to using a HP low profile computer for 9 months that I upgraded with 8GB of ddr2 ram and a 9500gt card to tide me over.

I decided to try again and built a new system using the case and hds, i got a gigabyte amd mb and a phenom II 720, used the same 8gb of ddr2 ram and the same 9500gt card and a corsair 450w ps. It worked for 3 weeks and then started experiencing the same freezing issue again. After a few times of the system freezing right after launching my game, I pulled the hds, ram and video card and put them back in the HP low profile computer and it has been working without issue, I didnt even need to reinstall the OS switching back from the AMD system to the Intel.

This tells me that the hds, ram, video card, OS (vista ultimate 64 btw) are not the issue. The cpus, mbs and psu are completely different in the 2 builds yet experienced the exact same issue.

Also I had a friend who is an electrician check my power source to the computer and there did not appear to be an issue, but he doesnt know computers so he might not know what would be unacceptable to the hardware.

Anyways, I am left wondering, how can the Thermaltake case be causing the issue? Misconfigured pins? Bad grounding? Has something else been overlooked? Taking this far fetched approach might lead to the solution to both our porblems.
 
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