Hi good people!
I'm running Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit,service pack 1.
For the last 7 days i'm having problems i'm about to describe:
PC is running great for some 12 hours,and then it starts to freeze. I'm unable to start Task Menager (Alt+Ctrl+Del) or any other command. The only solution is restar. But then Windows refuses to start and messege apears ''Windows fails to start,due to recent hardware or software change...'' I get the option Starup repair,and when scan is finished,Restore button apears. I HAVE TO restore it to ''the time it worked corectlly''.That is the only way to get it working for next 12 hours. And then everything starts again...
Before you ask,I've upadated EVERYTHING,drivers,direct X,latest Win updates,scaned it for viruses etc etc. Nothing seems to help. :4-dontkno
Any ideas? I'm desperate cos I know i did everything I could. And that is why i'm asking for proffesionals opinion :grin:
Hope for your soon reply! :wave:
[Wandering soul knows no rest]

 

Sadly, you told us absolutely NOTHING about your computer - except it runs W7 64-bit. Is this a notebook, PC, or what?

Have you cleaned the interior of heat trapping dust and dirt? Do all fans spins? What are your temps?

Any errors in Device Manager?

 

Tnx for reply!
I'm running PC,it is perfectly clean,fans are spinning fine.
Temps are CPU 40 °C
Graphics 58 °C
Hard Drives 36 °C
Errors in Device manager? How do i scan for any?

 

Right click on Computer and select Manage. Then look in Device Manager for any yellow or red warnings.

 

I did that and Wireless Communication Devices are yellow. Everything else is fine.

I'd like to add next thing- I've reinstaled Win 7,but kept my files. Still,the problem remains. Temps are fine,PC interior cleaned,scaned for viruses,even Win reinstaled and still OS hapens to go slow,then become totally unusable,I can't even preview an image.Everything freezes. Startup Repair is scaning for errors,them Restore is required (I don't know what's the restore point,though) and PC is working fine for 12/24 hours.
Help please? Hardware problem?

 

Well, I wish you didn't reinstall Windows. That's always a last resort option, for one reason, as seen here, it often does not correct the problem.

Is your computer fully updated with all the latest updates and patches?

Do you connect via Wireless?

 

Sounds to me like a hardware problem unrelated to viruses, patches, etc. Before starting that you should check you memory once it slows down and tell use what task manager reports AT THAT POINT. If it's actually FREEZING rather than just slowing down, I think that you need to accept that it's a hardware problem and it could be anything from the power supply to the motherboard to a hard drive to even bad RAM. Start by doing any substitutions you can think of with parts you have on hand or can borrow.

 

@Bill I'm sorry,just thought it's OS problem. It's fully updated and patched,for all I can think of. Do you have something specificly in mind?

@rgsalinger When it does slow down, alt+ctrl+del is unable to start with the message ''Windows can't display .... ALT+CTRL+DEL command'' .Its not the full message,but I hope it's enough to tell you something. It's actually more freezing than slowing down,but I guess I can do as you suggested. The thing I would like to ask you guys,about this problem is next: If it's a hardware problem,then how can Startup Repair and/or Restore point help me fix the problem for a whole day? Those repairs are made only for software,not hardware. I maybe got this wrong,so I could you explain?

 

Sorry Bill,forgot to answer : I connect via Interner cable,not Wireless.
Thank you.

 

Hi good people!
I'm running Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit,service pack 1.
For the last 7 days i'm having problems i'm about to describe:
PC is running great for some 12 hours,and then it starts to freeze. I'm unable to start Task Menager (Alt+Ctrl+Del) or any other command. The only solution is restar. But then Windows refuses to start and messege apears ''Windows fails to start,due to recent hardware or software change...'' I get the option Starup repair,and when scan is finished,Restore button apears. I HAVE TO restore it to ''the time it worked corectlly''.That is the only way to get it working for next 12 hours. And then everything starts again...
Before you ask,I've upadated EVERYTHING,drivers,direct X,latest Win updates,scaned it for viruses etc etc. Nothing seems to help. :4-dontkno
Any ideas? I'm desperate cos I know i did everything I could. And that is why i'm asking for proffesionals opinion :grin:
Hope for your soon reply! :wave:

sounds like a ram issue

 

@Bill I'm sorry,just thought it's OS problem. It's fully updated and patched,for all I can think of. Do you have something specificly in mind?

No need to apologize. It is just that reformatting and reinstalling is rarely necessary, especially with the latest versions of Windows.

If you connect via Ethernet, then your wireless error in Device Manager is probably not a big deal. If still have a wireless adapter installed, you might disable it.

It still could be heat, but I think if it were heat, it would not take 12 hours to affect performance - a few minutes to a couple hours is normal. Still, you could blast a desk fan into the open side and see what happens.

Though leaky capacitors are no longer a problem with new motherboards, you might inspect the motherboard just in case. The capacitors are tall, soda can looking devices, many of which surround the CPU socket to take advantage of the CPUs fan. Look for dried while to dark brown foam leaking from the tops or bottoms. Capacitors about to start leaking will be bulging.

I would also swap in a spare, known good PSU, or take yours to a shop for professional testing. Your PSU is obviously working, but it may have stability issues or excessive ripply.

 

A couple of other things that would help:-

• Make and model of your computer.
  
• Make, model and wattage of your PSU. If this is a desktop, you can find this information on the sticker attached to it inside your computer.
  
• Can you download and run Speccy for me. Once the program has gathered the required information, go to the top of the Speccy window and do File>Publish Snapshot. Click Yes when prompted. Now copy and paste the URL address that it gives you to your next post.
  
• Another thing you should also do is to run a test on your RAM sticks with memtest86+ There are two ways to run the test, either from a CD or USB. You will need to burn the ISO to a CD and then boot to the CD and run at least 7 passes on each stick and in each slot (only the ones that are being used). There is an auto-installer for doing it via USB (again, you will have to change the boot order to boot to the USB if you choose this method)
  
  Both downloads can be found halfway down the page. The reason that you should run it on one stick at a time, is so, if there is a fault with one of the sticks, then it's easy to figure out which one it is

 

There are two ways to run the test, either from a CD or USB

A bootable floppy disk works great too - if your machine has a floppy drive.

 

Yep, sorry. Always forget about the floppy

 

Using a floppy is much easier because you don't have to "burn" or configure. But alas, most machines do not have a floppy drive, though most motherboards still support one. There are USB floppy drives too.

And, you need a floppy disk - not always easy to find these days either.

The price we pay for advances in technology.

 

Okay,I am posting snapshot http://speccy.piriform.com/results/gXfQASEfH5R2HhxlLjwkiOD
Hope this helps you somehow. This is taken after 6 hours of PC running without problems.
About the heat-I trully doubt it.
@TheGift73 I will try memtest86+ and report back when I do.