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My pc's cured !! totally cured, no matter what I put it through, turns out it was the video card, removed it !! Thanks for the advice !

Hello, I think my freeze ups are due to my vidéo card, so I thought i'd test my system without it, my motherboard "ASUS P4S533-VM" has a port to plug a CRT monitor, but nothing happens when i plug my monitor to it... I don't have another video card to make the test... Any ideas how i could check if my video card is the real problem ? Thanks. Francis.

Hello, I am having serious problems with my computer at the moment, and i would appreciate any help possible. Here is what's going on : Last summer, my computer started having these regular freeze ups, the mouse would stop moving, everything would be frozen, only a restart would help the situation. If audio was playing, then a loud constant noise would come out until i press the reset button. I figured it was a heat problem since the temperature was affecting these happenings. I then gradually lowered the resolution and removed programs to avoid the pc overheating, but it seems it would get worse in time. I was pretty busy at school recently, but managed to format it but this didn't help at all, now I'm stuck with my outside fan next to the tower box with the lowest resolution, I also can't play audio or video or put the heater too high or the freeze will come. It also takes around 2 start ups until one works without automatically restarting. I individually checked the fans I could and the fan beneath what i believe to be the videocard is turning fan, the big fan on the motherboard also, and the one behind the power supply also is turning. In Speedfan software, out of two fans, it says one is turning at 0 RPM. In the provided with the motherboard ASUSprobe software, it comes up with Power fan and Chassis fan not monitored by default, but when i turn them on, it says that they are not turning. In both softwares, the tempratures of everything do not seem to be alarming at all. Also the interior of my tower is very dusty and when i bump it a little, sometimes i hear a fan making a loud rusty sound struggling to turn for about a minute, but then it goes back to normal in time. Can this be cleaned ? it's pretty sticky dust. So the softwares tell me temperature is fine, but the problems occur when I overheat the surround area, when I absolutely need to use audio or video, I usually open the window (it's winter here) and it works half the time. I will need to change parts, that i'm sure of, but i'm not sure how to proceed to find out what is problematic. And bringing it to a repair person... well considering my pc is not a big value now, i'm thinking it's worthless to send it for repairs, they might charge me a lot for replacement parts, and take awful lot of time to make the actual repairs. I need my pc fixed and working for an audio recording project, and now's my vacations. Thank you for any advice. Francis. PC info : Intel P4 2.4Ghz Processor ASUS P4S533-VM Motherboard ASUS GeForce4 MX 440-8x 64MB 512 Mb RAM Memory 80gig Maxtor Hard Drive Soundblaster Live Soundcard Thanks.