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4yr old desktop freezes & runs slow, pls help

Sep 6, 2015 8:24PM PDT

Let me start off by saying I know very little about computers, my current desktop is freezing up and the screen turns a white or cream colour and I have to turn it off manually.

It runs extremely slowly and I've had it for roughly 4 years.

When I restart it, there's a harsh constant pitch beep or beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep sound and it refuses to turn back on until I manully jiggle the ram and/or video card, then it turns back on. Now this freezing up business only happens maybe once a fortnight but when it does happen it will happen maybe 3 times at once.

So far as I can tell it's not overheating, as there's 2 fans, my friends who are slightly more computer literate than I, think it is HDD, video card or Graphics card related, I thought it might be ram related.

The only thing that's been replaced is the power supply.

As I said I know very little and am looking to fix the freezing and also make it run faster without replacing the entire system, just what it needs.

Below is a list of components, thank you so much for your time/help.

Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F3 SATA II 7200RPM 32M17/10/2011 $67.00

Western Digital 500G SATAII HDD 32M Green Power17/10/2011$47.00

Samsung 22X DVDRW Black SATA (SH-S223C-BL)17/10/2011 $23.00

Thermaltake Litepower 600W ATX PSU 17/10/2011 $70.00

Corsair TW3X4G1333C9A 4GB (2x XMS3 2GB) PC-10600 (1333MHz) DDR317/10/2011 $100.00

Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 P55 4DDR3 4VRM PCIEx16 GLAN SATA3 ATX 17/10/2011 $150.00

Intel Core i3 530 Processor LGA1156 2.93GHz 4MB Cache CPU17/10/2011 $122.00

Thermaltake V5 LanParty Black Edition w Reinforced Handle NO PSU17/10/2011 $79.00

Gainward GTS250 D3 1G DVI HDMI17/10/2011 $136.00
Acer G245HBMID 24inch Wide Black 5ms VGA DVI HDMI Spker17/10/2013 $207.00

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