System Hangs ON

[mil]

Hi All,

My system hangs ON after some time again & again. I need to do Log off & then again Log IN to operate smoothly. I tried installing fresh & newly, but still the problem exists. I have XP SP2 & two RAMs 1GB & 512MB in my system. Kindly advice.

Thanks,
Mil

[kuszmania9999]

have you defrag the hdd?try running ccleaner, disc check utilities run - cmd - chkdsk /r
what brand is that hdd?if the problem still there after trying all of my suggestion, travel to your hdd manufacturer website and download disc check utilites and check your hdd.

are you sure the pc not hanging because overheating?some computer do that.

[only_lonely]

viruses?
try to scan computer.
heat problem will make pc to restart instead of "hang"
try to use one ram 1st, then swap the slot if any ectra slot.

[dahlarbear]

Hi All,

My system hangs ON after some time again & again. I need to do Log off & then again Log IN to operate smoothly. I tried installing fresh & newly, but still the problem exists. I have XP SP2 & two RAMs 1GB & 512MB in my system. Kindly advice.

Thanks,
Mil

Can you clarify what the symptoms are?  If the system hangs (locks up), I don't understand how you can log off.  Is the computer locking up (no response to user inputs) or is it just one program that hangs (and can be killed)?

Is this a recent problem?  Did it start after you added more memory?  Did it start after a hardware or software change?

[QuickLearner]

use one ram at a time and see.

[kuszmania9999]

viruses?
try to scan computer.
heat problem will make pc to restart instead of "hang"
try to use one ram 1st, then swap the slot if any ectra slot.

i just want to let others member know that computer can hang when the system overheat.Do some research.

[patio]

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heat problem will make pc to restart instead of "hang"
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i just want to let others member know that computer can hang when the system overheat.Do some research.

This was stated above...

[dahlarbear]

1.   I believe "hang" could be caused by:

    o  Heat
    o  Bad Hardware
        -  Memory
        -  Old hard drive
        -  Motherboard?
    o  Software
        -  Application
        -  Operating System
        -  Driver

2.  Overheating.  Clean dust out of case, heatsinks, motherboard, case vents, fan blades, etc...  Check to ensure all fans are working.  Perhaps find software that displays temperature values of motherboard, disk drive temperatures.

3.  Bad Hardware.  Check the memory.  Can run one module at a time.  Don't forget memory slot could be bad.  Use stand alone software to test.  I recommend software:

    www.memtest86.com

Should be abe to find software to view the Self Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology (SMART) values on your hard drive.  Find manufacturer diagnostic utilities for your hard drive and run them.  Defrag the file systems.  Wouldn't hurt to use "chkdsk" to verify integrity of the file system and perhaps hard disk surface.

4.  Software.  You could try running in "Safe Mode" to eliminate most of the software as a potential problem and see if problem reoccurs.  If the problem does not reoccur, I'd suspect your third party device drivers

You could run "sfc" utility to check integrity of your system files, but fresh install probably took care of that.

Memtest86 is a self-contained system that boots from floppy or CD.  If you run MemTest86 and system hangs, you know it's not a software problem because this software is independent of what you were running.

If it runs clean without hanging then it's probably not a heating problem, because the test exercises your system continuously until you hit "Escape" key to exit.

You could also run from a bootable Linux distro to eliminate your software as the problem.