Hi guys,
This is my first post on these forums, and actually my first post ever regarding computer tech... I know a bit about computers, but I am fairly useless (weren't we all at one point?) when it comes to actual support.
Anyway, diving straight in. For as long as I can remember (probably as far back as a year orso) my computer has been randomly freezing in perhaps the most peculiar of ways:
- Originally, it just used to "freeze". i.e., everything will stop working and the monitor will just stay on a frozen screen of what I was previously doing.
- Then it began getting weirder. This one is slightly harder to explain, but it would stutter and unless I restarted the computer, it would eventually freeze. For example, I could be listening to music and typing and I'd notice that every 4-5 letters I'd type, the music would stutter. Every brisk movement of the mouse, the music would stutter. Obviously, looking beyond the music, everything would stutter. If I ignored it, the computer would, again, freeze like it did before.
- Lately, its been freezing in a whole different way. Without warning, I'd lose input to my monitor (which would go black with "No signal received", my keyboard will stop working (testing using things like caps lock - the light doesn't change) and, perhaps more worryingly, a fan in my computer (which I believe is my graphics card fan) goes onto 100% speed and just keeps like this until I restart the computer.
Needless to say, upon restarting the computer would seemingly act normal again. However, its recently been getting more prevalent (the third one, anyway)
My brother is something of a computer-whiz (well, better than me anyway) and he first suggested that, of course, it was the graphics card. Upon removing the graphics card, the problem still persisted. He then suggested that it was the PSU - which I later replaced, yet the problem still persisted.
My brother has done various things to my computer - i.e., taken out hardware and put them back in, etc.
And I suppose this is where my newbiness comes in... I'm not too sure what else to say... Uhm, I've tried looking at event viewer with some frightening results, idk what any of them mean, and if you want to see one I suppose I could show one...
I need a computer doctor! >.< And I'm possibly the lamest patient around :3
Thanks guys
This is my first post on these forums, and actually my first post ever regarding computer tech... I know a bit about computers, but I am fairly useless (weren't we all at one point?) when it comes to actual support.
Anyway, diving straight in. For as long as I can remember (probably as far back as a year orso) my computer has been randomly freezing in perhaps the most peculiar of ways:
- Originally, it just used to "freeze". i.e., everything will stop working and the monitor will just stay on a frozen screen of what I was previously doing.
- Then it began getting weirder. This one is slightly harder to explain, but it would stutter and unless I restarted the computer, it would eventually freeze. For example, I could be listening to music and typing and I'd notice that every 4-5 letters I'd type, the music would stutter. Every brisk movement of the mouse, the music would stutter. Obviously, looking beyond the music, everything would stutter. If I ignored it, the computer would, again, freeze like it did before.
- Lately, its been freezing in a whole different way. Without warning, I'd lose input to my monitor (which would go black with "No signal received", my keyboard will stop working (testing using things like caps lock - the light doesn't change) and, perhaps more worryingly, a fan in my computer (which I believe is my graphics card fan) goes onto 100% speed and just keeps like this until I restart the computer.
Needless to say, upon restarting the computer would seemingly act normal again. However, its recently been getting more prevalent (the third one, anyway)
My brother is something of a computer-whiz (well, better than me anyway) and he first suggested that, of course, it was the graphics card. Upon removing the graphics card, the problem still persisted. He then suggested that it was the PSU - which I later replaced, yet the problem still persisted.
My brother has done various things to my computer - i.e., taken out hardware and put them back in, etc.
And I suppose this is where my newbiness comes in... I'm not too sure what else to say... Uhm, I've tried looking at event viewer with some frightening results, idk what any of them mean, and if you want to see one I suppose I could show one...
I need a computer doctor! >.< And I'm possibly the lamest patient around :3
Thanks guys