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Originally Posted by Becky
Does anyone have any idea what would cause a freeze up that serious? I'd like to avoid that happening again. This computer is only about 2 years old.
Becky
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From what I have experienced, mysterious freeze ups are quite often caused by 1) overheating 2) hdd failure 3) bad ram.
Of course, its always possible that some virus or *user* accidentally messed something up within windows.
One quite handy solution is to re-install win without rmoving/formatting. That way u might save your work/settings/installed progs. That of course, if your comp seems to be working okay, meaning no obvious broken components.
FORGOT TO ADD:
Last time I had similar problem, it was caused by motherboard. At first comp froze, then refused to boot at all. Reinstalling went fine, but comp still wouldn't boot. After few tries, comp refused to recognize cd drive. With assistance from the shop I bought the crap from I managed to sort it out to motherboard
