Hello,
Yesterday my PC was working just fine without any problems. However, when I woke up today and tried to use it, the PC hung up after around 10 minutes of usage. This has continued throughout the day.
When it freezes, it doesn't immediately freeze up. I can still click buttons, minimize a window, or ctrl+alt+del, however none of the things I do at that point will have any effect. Clicking the X won't close a program, typing in "taskmgr" in the start menu won't load Task Manager, double clicking an icon or file won't open it, if I attempt to restart or shut down it will hang at the Logging Off... screen, etc.
The PC will then become totally unresponsive, with me no longer being able to click on anything and I have to do a hard reset.
I ran it in Safe Mode a few times now, and in all of those tests the PC had no difficulties. It's only when I boot normally.
My system is as follows...
CPU
Intel Core2Duo E7200 @ 2.53GHz
MOTHERBOARD
ASUS P5B-VM SE
HDD
WDC WD4000AKS-00YGA0 ATA
GPU
ATI Radeon 4850HD 512MB
PSU
Thermaltake PurePower 500W ATX 12V 2.0
RAM
4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
I can't get the exact model of ram at the moment as I'm running memtest86 on that PC and can't see their labels. I ran the Memory Check earlier through windows (ran 12 tests) and it had no errors, though the Extended test froze every time at 21%.
I hadn't updated anything yesterday, nor have I installed any new programs, there is 240GB free on the HDD, and there are no viruses or spyware on it (as of last recent check). After it hung one time I immediately checked the BIOS upon hard reset and the temperature read 30degrees Celsius (86F), and it remained there.
Since it works in Safe Mode without issue what would you think is the most likely cause here? It's an old PC now (I built it around 5.5 years ago) so I'm wondering if the components are just dying on me. Though if that were the case wouldn't Safe Mode be having issues as well?
I plan on running a CHKDSK once the memtest86 is done, as well as trying the clean boot method to see if it is something there. This is the first time this PC has given me problems though, so any advice is welcome.
Yesterday my PC was working just fine without any problems. However, when I woke up today and tried to use it, the PC hung up after around 10 minutes of usage. This has continued throughout the day.
When it freezes, it doesn't immediately freeze up. I can still click buttons, minimize a window, or ctrl+alt+del, however none of the things I do at that point will have any effect. Clicking the X won't close a program, typing in "taskmgr" in the start menu won't load Task Manager, double clicking an icon or file won't open it, if I attempt to restart or shut down it will hang at the Logging Off... screen, etc.
The PC will then become totally unresponsive, with me no longer being able to click on anything and I have to do a hard reset.
I ran it in Safe Mode a few times now, and in all of those tests the PC had no difficulties. It's only when I boot normally.
My system is as follows...
CPU
Intel Core2Duo E7200 @ 2.53GHz
MOTHERBOARD
ASUS P5B-VM SE
HDD
WDC WD4000AKS-00YGA0 ATA
GPU
ATI Radeon 4850HD 512MB
PSU
Thermaltake PurePower 500W ATX 12V 2.0
RAM
4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
I can't get the exact model of ram at the moment as I'm running memtest86 on that PC and can't see their labels. I ran the Memory Check earlier through windows (ran 12 tests) and it had no errors, though the Extended test froze every time at 21%.
I hadn't updated anything yesterday, nor have I installed any new programs, there is 240GB free on the HDD, and there are no viruses or spyware on it (as of last recent check). After it hung one time I immediately checked the BIOS upon hard reset and the temperature read 30degrees Celsius (86F), and it remained there.
Since it works in Safe Mode without issue what would you think is the most likely cause here? It's an old PC now (I built it around 5.5 years ago) so I'm wondering if the components are just dying on me. Though if that were the case wouldn't Safe Mode be having issues as well?
I plan on running a CHKDSK once the memtest86 is done, as well as trying the clean boot method to see if it is something there. This is the first time this PC has given me problems though, so any advice is welcome.