Strange freezing/crashes

BobSacamano · 07-11-2009, 09:13 AM

Hello all,

I hope someone can help me, I have no idea what to do.

While watching movies on my pc, it began to occasionally crash, the monitor goes black and the light goes from green to orange. I must manually reboot. When this problem started I noticed it was only when I played wmv's. I upgraded my vlc player and tried window media player home cinema, but still it persisted.

So i just got used to avoiding wmv's and stuck to avi's. The other day i defragged my drive and now, I'm afraid, it's started with the avi's. I'll be watching a movie and it plays perfectly for a little while then the same crash.

makinu1der2 · 07-11-2009, 10:10 AM

Hello,

What is the make/model of the PC? If this is a custom build then post the specs.

Razo222 · 07-11-2009, 01:44 PM

Touch the back of your video card and see if its hot. It might be overheating.

adrianparke2002 · 07-11-2009, 03:18 PM

post specs of your pc
psu
airflow
temps
cpu
video card
number of system fans
clean up wires with wireties

BobSacamano · 07-11-2009, 06:09 PM

People tell me just to buy a new one, but I don't like throwing out something that is perfectly fine for what i use it for.

It was overheating about 5 months ago, power supply fan went, changed it and don't seem to have problems with that now. I couldn't even begin to tell you temps etc. I know I have a small hard drive, 10 gigs, AMD Duron 1GHZ, 240mg ram, S3 Graphics ProSavage KM133 on-board video. there is one fan running on the board and the power supply... nothing feels really hot. I'm going to try to watch a movie again and see if something heats up.

adrianparke2002 · 07-12-2009, 12:21 AM

well i see nothing wrong with your hardware to make it overheat but i could see it working better if it had at least 512mb ram which xp needs to run properly "the more the better" and a 300watt above psu is suffecient for that old system. And a exaust fan and intake fan should be placed "you said you had one so good job there" and just give it some cleaning dusting. Also clean it up with wireties. That will help airflow greatly to keep it cool! :) hope that does it for ya!

07-11-2009, 09:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
BobSacamano Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2 OS: xp service pack 2 AMD Duron 1GHZ, 240mg ram, S3 Graphics ProSavage KM133, yeah, it's old.	Strange freezing/crashes Hello all, I hope someone can help me, I have no idea what to do. While watching movies on my pc, it began to occasionally crash, the monitor goes black and the light goes from green to orange. I must manually reboot. When this problem started I noticed it was only when I played wmv's. I upgraded my vlc player and tried window media player home cinema, but still it persisted. So i just got used to avoiding wmv's and stuck to avi's. The other day i defragged my drive and now, I'm afraid, it's started with the avi's. I'll be watching a movie and it plays perfectly for a little while then the same crash.

07-11-2009, 10:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
makinu1der2 Tech Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 2,025 OS: Vista Home Premium SP1,Win XP SP3,Ubuntu 9.04,Sabayon 4,Windows 7 RC1 x64 My System	Re: Strange freezing/crashes Hello, What is the make/model of the PC? If this is a custom build then post the specs. __________________ "The dumbest people I know are those who know it all."

07-11-2009, 01:44 PM	#3 (permalink)
Razo222 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 11 OS: xp sp3	Re: Strange freezing/crashes Touch the back of your video card and see if its hot. It might be overheating.

07-11-2009, 03:18 PM	#4 (permalink)
adrianparke2002 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 62 OS: windows xp service pack 2	Re: Strange freezing/crashes post specs of your pc psu airflow temps cpu video card number of system fans clean up wires with wireties

07-11-2009, 06:09 PM	#5 (permalink)
BobSacamano Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2 OS: xp service pack 2 AMD Duron 1GHZ, 240mg ram, S3 Graphics ProSavage KM133, yeah, it's old.	Re: Strange freezing/crashes People tell me just to buy a new one, but I don't like throwing out something that is perfectly fine for what i use it for. It was overheating about 5 months ago, power supply fan went, changed it and don't seem to have problems with that now. I couldn't even begin to tell you temps etc. I know I have a small hard drive, 10 gigs, AMD Duron 1GHZ, 240mg ram, S3 Graphics ProSavage KM133 on-board video. there is one fan running on the board and the power supply... nothing feels really hot. I'm going to try to watch a movie again and see if something heats up.

07-12-2009, 12:21 AM	#6 (permalink)
adrianparke2002 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 62 OS: windows xp service pack 2	Re: Strange freezing/crashes well i see nothing wrong with your hardware to make it overheat but i could see it working better if it had at least 512mb ram which xp needs to run properly "the more the better" and a 300watt above psu is suffecient for that old system. And a exaust fan and intake fan should be placed "you said you had one so good job there" and just give it some cleaning dusting. Also clean it up with wireties. That will help airflow greatly to keep it cool! :) hope that does it for ya!