FrozenBlade Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 After I take a trip to MS Update just after I have formatted my HDD and installed a fresh copy of pro, I go to update my computer and then when I restart, my computer will freeze on the desktop randomly for about 2 minutes and then everything goes back to normal, it is not truly freezing I can still do something but for example, when I try to run programs they won't run, then after about 2 or 3 minutes everything just instantly comes alive and runs perfect or sometimes the programs run perfect but things such as right clicking don't work for 2 minutes, the freezing seems to affect different things on startup, sometimes it affects programs, sometimes it affects the taskbar, sometimes everything just doesn't work. I THINK it has something to do with a Service Pack for Net Framework 1 but I uninstalled it and it still freezes, this is the 10th!! Time this month I have formatted my PC and it is driving me nuts. Any help would be appreciated.
cluberti Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Have you checked task manager to make sure you don't have a process using 100% CPU during this time?
FrozenBlade Posted January 23, 2007 Author Posted January 23, 2007 (edited) I can't even get into the task manager sometimes, the times when I can, it indicates 96% Idle CPU most of the time, I am running a rig with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700, 4GB XMS2 Dominator RAM, 1X Radeon X1950 and a 500GB Maxtor HDD.PS: When I just installed Windows is was freezing like hell but now I have just noticed that ANY third party firewall also makes the computer freeze like hell when they didn't before, if i remove the firewall, my computer runs perfectly again. EDIT: It seems that this freezing is not from the update then, more like it is from something that is installed with Windows. :S Edited January 23, 2007 by FrozenBlade
cluberti Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Can you get a complete memory dump while it's behaving slowly like that?
FrozenBlade Posted January 23, 2007 Author Posted January 23, 2007 It is ok now, I managed to find what was causing it, I didn't clamp the processor fan down properly and over time it must have riddled loose which made the processor overheat thus making Windows run extremly slow, now I am just worried incase I have messed the processor up, I only bought it 2 weeks ago
cluberti Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 If your computer is running fine, I'd say you are probably safe. Most modern processors have opcodes that can be used to immediately power off if they overheat.
FrozenBlade Posted January 23, 2007 Author Posted January 23, 2007 I thought it had something to protect the processor from destroying itself whew, I feel so lucky right now!
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