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Answer» This machine is a couple of years old, no problems until yesterday, haven't installed any new hardware or software.
The screen freezes (locks up and won't respond) for about 20 or thirty seconds, or it blacks out for a second and then comes back on. Sometimes it will ghost the desktop icons on top of my screen, it is really crapping out something terrible here. What's going on?What kind of computer do you have? Where does the freezeing happens? Durning boot or after boot? Does it happen durning one type of apps? Let us know...Virus scanners
AVG Free
-- Anti virus scanner
Trend MICRO Housecall
-- Online anti virus scanner.
Anti spy/malware
Microsoft Antispyware
-- Anti spyware scanner. Windows XP Home and Professional only.
Spybot Search & Destroy
-- Anti spyware scanner
Adaware SE Personal
-- Anti spyware scanner
Firewalls
Use both a hardware and software firewall.
Be advised as DUAL software firewalls may cause problems
ZoneAlarm Free
-- Free firewall - more user friendly
Sygate Personal
-- Free firewall - more configuration options
Removal TOOLS
The following files are not substitutes for the ones described above.
They are either diagnostic tools or removal tools for malware of a certain kind
HijackThis
-- Manual malware remover. Post the HijackThis log generated only if requested!
McAfee Stinger
-- Virus removal tool. No substitute for a fully functional virus scanner!
CWshredder
-- CoolWebSearch removal tool. Widely known and persistant Hijacker.
Quote This machine is a couple of years old, no problems until yesterday, haven't installed any new hardware or software.
The screen freezes (locks up and won't respond) for about 20 or thirty seconds, or it blacks out for a second and then comes back on. Sometimes it will ghost the desktop icons on top of my screen, it is really crapping out something terrible here. What's going on?
Not overheating, even happens when I start up in the morning. Can make it happen by loading a very long (70 page etc.) document in MS Word and then holding down the scroll bar to scroll down page by page, it will freeze before it gets 1/3 way down.
It's NOT a MS Word problem, if I load the same doc into OpenOffice, same problem occurs.
It's not a virus either.
I figure it is either the graphics card, or the motherboard, or the CPU.It wouldn't hurt to test your ram.
http://www.memtest.org/Run a thorough scan of your HARD Drive for bad sectors.
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