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Very Weird Lock Ups. Hardware related?

by twillie05 Dec 28, 2004 3:39PM PST

I Have a Dell 8400. This system is only 6 mounts old and has the top of the line stuff. 3GHz 1gig of ddr2 running win xp pro. Recently I have been having several full blown lock ups where the computer is not responsive at all, Ctrl+ALT+DEL dose not even work. Powering down and rebooting is the only option. Doing simple tasks such as closing a program or viewing small pictures, things that are not at all stressing things for this computer seem to be the causing the recurring problem. I play games like far cry that take more system recourses and this dose not happen. Can someone help? I don?t know if its hardware related or has something to do with windows or the registry, or even if it?s a virus I?m lost. Something is telling me this is hardware related, I'm not shure though.

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used anti virus scaner and spyware dosent work!

by twillie05 Dec 29, 2004 2:10AM PST

Someone told me to use an anti virus which i had and spy ware removers. the spy ware remover spy bot found some bugs but im still experiencing the same problem.

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Things to try...

by billzhills Dec 29, 2004 9:37AM PST

Boot your system to safe mode and see if the lock ups continue. If they do not run all these scans
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=1313&messageID=15002

If the system still locks up go on line to the Mnf of your H/D. Download and run the H/D diagnostic utility.

Look inside the case at the capactors. The tops of the capactors should be flat not crowned.

Have you contacted Dell?

Luck

Bill
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