In serious need of assistance

[Trinox]

Hello,

Recently I have been experiencing sudden freezes of my monitor. When it freezes, I can not move my mouse-cursor nor can I do anything. The only solution to force it back to work is rebooting.

The thing is, I recently noticed I only had like 40MB free space on my Windows drive. I have freed up to 3,39GB free space.

I reckoned that this was the cause of my monitor freezing. Am I correct? Is there anything else I could do to prevent this?

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I have 1024MB RAM, Ati Radeon X1650 Pro (256MB RAM). I don't know if this matters but I felt like putting this in my request for help.

Thanks in advance,
Trinox

[contrex]

That could well be the cause of your freezing. Windows does not like it when such a small amount of free space is left. You were definitely on the limit. has the freezing stopped now?

To prevent this,

1. Uninstall programs you don't use.
2. Download less.
3. Look through your hard drive for stuff you don't need. Burn all those movies to optical media.
4. Get a bigger hard drive. You have not said the size of your drive.
5. Make a habit of knowing how much free space you have.

Google for "free up disk space"

[street1 (RIP)]

Without knowing you system specs,I don't know if you have a Cd/DVD
burner but, assuming you do....Who's Your Buddy ?

My main hard drive only has 6.5 GB I use.

[Trinox]

I have 6 different drives where I can put files on. The C drive, which is my Windows drive,  is 24,4GB, and so are all the other drives except for the H drive, which is 64,4GB.

I have freed up to 4,53GB now.

Yes, my monitor stopped with freezing since I did that. But I'm still not confident.

[street1 (RIP)]

Well, believe me 'contrex 'was correct.You should never use over
80% of your main hard drive. I usually keep it down to 50%.

Sorry, Trinox I forgot to tell you,it is nice to have you as a member
of Computerhope friend.

Robert

[Trinox]

Sorry, Trinox I forgot to tell you,it is nice to have you as a member
of Computerhope friend.

Thanks, mate.

[Trinox]

My monitor just froze again. I don't know what to do anymore.

[2k_dummy]

I'm more inclined to think this has to do malware rather than free space on HD. Have you done any scans? What malware protections are you using?

[Trinox]

I'm using a-squared for malware.

[street1 (RIP)]

Try ewido. 30 day free trial,full function.

http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

[Trinox]

I'm running it now.

[Trinox]

*censored*, it just froze during the virus scan. I can't run it in Safe Mode because it freezes there also. What can I do?!

[contrex]

We still don't know diddly about system specs. Age of system, store bought, or self build, make, model, CPU, RAM, HDD, PSU, motherboard, etc. We don't even know what OS is running.

In the absence of any of that info,  I am maybe wondering about the RAM, and about overheating, but mainly about the HDD. Does it make a clicking sound? When was it last defragmented, if ever? feel HDD & see if it is hot. Check ide or sata cables for correct connections (with power off!)

Does it happen absolutely at random, or can you predict that it will always do it (say) 20-30 minutes after booting, or when the DVD drive spins up, or when the HDD clicks a lot, or when you open a new program?

I am also wondering about running out swap space, or a heavily fragmented swap file. Considering the initial query, it may be that some overdue maintenance attention is called for...

Where to start? Open the case with the power off and have a good clean, being careful not to damage anything?

[Trinox]

Here is my DXDIAG.

Attached. I bought the PC like 1 year and 5 months or so.

[Saving disk space -  old attachment deleted by admin]

[Richenstony]

*censored*, it just froze during the virus scan. I can't run it in Safe Mode because it freezes there also. What can I do?!

The swearing is not needed