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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 5
OS: Windows XP Professional
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Freeze when playing games or video
I am running XP Professional and while playing a video game or watching a DVD my internal hard drive repeats a click and spinning up cylcle until my audio crackles and goes intermittent and then the screen freezes and I have to restart my computer. It also takes a long time to reboot. I would appreciate any advice you might offer. I have tried reinstalling the sound and video drivers. Thanks! Sam
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Omaha, The Center of the Universe
Posts: 7,632
OS: WinXP, Win2K3
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Hello and welcome to TSF.
Download the drive manufacturers disk utility and run a diagnostic against the drive. You can five the appropriate app download in my sig below. |
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 5
OS: Windows XP Professional
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System Spec's
I have a Pent4 2.20mghz processor with a Western Digital 80gig internal drive with Windows XP Pro. An external 200 gig drive, internal DVD/CD drive, external DVD/CD drive, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card, Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS sound card, a network card (attached to a cable modem) and a USB/Firewire card. I have less than 1/3 of the available space used on both drives. I built the system myself a few years ago and have done some upgrades, but nothing recent. Thanks! Sam
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 5
OS: Windows XP Professional
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PSU info
I had the Power supply replaced about a year ago by a local tech. He said it is plenty of power for my system. When I had Power supply problems before the machine would restart sporadically. This isn't anything like that. The sceen usually goes black during the video playback. Sometimes I can get it back up and sometimes I have to reboot. Thanks again for your help.
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Manager, Hardware Forums
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: west australia
Posts: 53,771
OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail
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try it from the recovery console
to get to the recovery console,boot from the xp disk and choose install when the repair option comes up press R when it asks
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