Computer Randomly Freezes

[harry569]

For about a month now I've had so much hassle with my pc. It's about 2 years old and has been updated a few times with better parts. About a month ago I got it shipped from France to England and when it arrived it had had mild outer box damage, but seemed to be working fine.


Note : PC Specs

2GB DDR Ram
Intel Duo 6200 2.0ghz (I think)
Nvidia 7800GT Graphics Card
Maxor 250GB SATA 7500RPM Hard Drive
600W Decent Quality PSU (Brand New)

Anyway, so within the last couple of weeks, I've had a lot of weird problems with my pc. I will list as many as I can remember.

- Random Restarts
- Random Freezes
- Loss of Sound, then mouse and keyboard go too and then Pc freezes.
- Computer not starting up properly(Have to turn off and on again to work)

I have to reformat the PC one a week, because after a week, a nice new error appears. Everytime its to do with either Windows being corrupted somehow, or a hard drive problem.

Also my computer had 6 USB Ports/Slots, over the past 6 weeks, 3 of them have now broken, and cannot be used. The freezes always start with USB Slots and Audio slots at the back of pc not working so entire pc just freezes.

I talked to a mate, we thought it was the PSU which was making very strainy sounds, so I bought a new one and for about 2 days it was flawless. Then it started doing all of the above again, I manage to sort it again by removing one of my gfx cards which seemed to be over heating, and again that more or less fixed the problem for a few days,

Now Im back to square one, pc is fine when not playing games, but after playing World of Warcraft for 10 minutes, my pc just freezes completely. It's not an over heating problem, I know that for sure, my GFX Card is at 80 degrees when playing and doesn't overheat.

My hard drive makes very weird noises and vibrates repetitively sometimes.


I honestly don't know what to do now. I got a new PSU and it didn't fix it, I reformat and it doesn't fix it. I remove my bad GFX Card and it doesn't fix it.

The problem seems to be something to do with the USB/Anything Slots at the back of the PC, but it could also be the hard drive...or motherboard bad maybe? or even corrupted Ram.

I honestly don't know and I just really want someone to help me figure this out, I just need to find out what is the problem so I can get it fixed. This problem is so irritating and I feel like im wasting money lol, since PSU didn't fix it.


Any ideas or help very much appreciated, and if you need me to get you any more info please say so and I will asap. Thanks for reading

[Freelancer]

yes, i have a problem similar to yours. it all started while playing World of Warcraft some time ago , when my computer froze completely. the only logical thing to do was to push the reset button since no other action was possible, but to my surprise, i was unable to get past the POST message, the computer kept shutting down completely after 5 seconds of running. i removed my VGA card (EVGA 8800GT), powered the computer and it worked. then i put the VGA back in and now it works just fine, except the aprt where it randomly freezes sometimes or hangs at the Vista loading screen.
Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong about my pc?
Freelancer, Romania


Config:
OS: Vista Ultimate SP2
ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS
EVGA 8800GT
Athlon 64X2 4600+
2X Seagate 7200.10 at 320GB SATA
4GB Kingmax 800mghz DDR2
Thermaltake TR2-470W
1X Genius PCI CMI8738 soundcard
1X LAN card
2X 80mm cooling fans.

[Ant]

Harry, find the problem by a process of elimination.

Strip it down to the bare essentials, just the hard drive, 1 stick of ram and the graphics card (if necessary). Unplug/remove any other cards, peripherals, usb drives/ports, card readers, cd/dvdroms etc.

See if it the problem occurs again, if it does you've narrowed down the cause and you can try changing the ram stick, the drive etc or try them in another machine.

If it doesn't re-occur, reinstall the other hardware piece by piece and run it again for a while each time, until the problem surfaces.

You could also try pieces of your hardware in your mate's com to see if the same thing happens.

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Freelancer, I suggest starting a new thread, as the problem might not be related to the one above.