Re: XP keeps freezing up

Alaye

May I suggest you downoad and run Spybot S & D.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Are you running McAfee Site Advisor?



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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Alaye wrote:
Sorry, it hadnt froze all day. I sent you logs. it did start
freezing again. the logs show activity while i was frozen out. again
no errors just information codes. and yes i did HD scan : no bad
sectors sir.

"Gerry" wrote:

Alaye


Have you carried out the full suface scan using HD Tune yet? Are
there any bad sectors on the disk?

I thought you said the problem was freezes not crashes?

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Gerry
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Alaye wrote:
not lately. it also has not crashed all day. mebbe its fixed??
"Gerry" wrote:

Alaye

Have you experimented with any optimisers or registry cleaners?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Alaye wrote:
sorry it was copy commander VCOM that made the partitions

"Gerry" wrote:

Alaye

Does the freezing coincide with burning?

What is your CD burning software?

What utility did you use to create your partitions?

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager.
With the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and
check the boxes before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory
size. What are the figures for the 4 processes using the largest
amounts?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Alaye wrote:
i dont watch the movies on my PC. i only copy them and burn
them.

Commit charge
Total 329520
Limit 4040068
Peak 448932 What does this mean?

"Gerry" wrote:

Alaye

Open Disk Defragmenter, select partition F and click on
Analyse. Select View Report and click on Save As and Save. Now
find VolumeC.txt (it might be VolumeF.txt) in your My
Documents Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk
Defragmenter as it is more informative.

What utility did you use to create your partitions?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the
Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the
Limit and the Peak?

You should be able to gather more information from Task
Manager. With the Processes tab open select View, Select,
Columns and check the boxes before Peak Memory Usage and
Virtual Memory size. What are the figures for the 4 processes
using the largest amounts?

Please do this whilst watching a movie.

Do you get freezes when watching a movie and not at other
times?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Alaye wrote:
McAfee is virus scan and webroot spyware is spyware. there
are no error coced in the application log. the system had
errors but none around the time it crashed. any ideas about
there still being information events while she was crashed
and frozen? HD Tune: ST3250824A Information

Firmware version : 3.AAE
Serial number : 5ND3JXSP
Capacity : 232.9 GB (~250.1 GB)
Buffer size : 8192 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-7
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: no
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : no
Power-up in Standby : no
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

Partition : 1
Drive letter : C:\
Label : 250 GIG
Capacity : 99998 MB
Usage : 67.61%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes

Partition : 2
Drive letter : G:\
Label : SWAP_SPACE
Capacity : 6126 MB
Usage : 0.03%
Type : FAT32
Bootable : No

Partition : 3
Drive letter : H:\
Label : NEW_SPACE
Capacity : 52344 MB
Usage : 0.13%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No

Partition : 4
Drive letter : F:\
Label : MOVIE_STORAGE
Capacity : 80003 MB
Usage : 88.81%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No

HD Tune: ST3250824A Health

ID Current Worst
ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 102 90 6 0
Ok

(03) Spin Up Time 98 98 0 0
Ok

(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 20
264 Ok

(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 36 0
Ok

(07) Seek Error Rate 59 57 30
100570267 Ok

(09) Power On Hours Count 90 90 0
8893 Ok

(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 97 0
Ok

(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 20
227 Ok

(BB) (unknown attribute) 100 100 0 0
Ok

(BD) (unknown attribute) 100 100 0 0
Ok

(BE) Airflow Temperature 63 56 45
655884325 Ok

(C2) Temperature 37 44 0 37
Ok

(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 64 45 0
242995742 Ok

(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 0
Ok

(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 0
Ok

(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0
Ok

(C8) Write Error Rate 100 253 0 0
Ok

(CA) TA Counter Increased 100 253 0 0
Ok


Power On Time : 8893
Health Status : Ok


"Gerry" wrote:

Alaye

Let's see what HD Tune has to say.

I would have expected some indications of problems in the
Event Viewer Application log. Did you look there.

What McAfee products are you using? What anti-spyware
programme?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Alaye wrote:
Thanx for responding Gerry, i am familiar with your help
from previous post and you have been helpful. i use task
manager all the time to monitor system. it freezes while
in use never on boot. last night i used it for 3 hours
straight with no problems after it froze while doing a
virus scan after 10 mins. i shut it down to give it a
rest. McAfee is my virus protection. Commit charge
Total 329520
Limit 4040068
Peak 448932 What does this mean? Also i monitor the event
log and nothing seems to help. i get the info from M$ and
it still freezes. One interesting thing i saw was that my pc
froze at 9:54 pm and there was event code thru to 10 :12,
which was prolly when i turned it off....? go figure . BTW
the events were information not error codes. im gonna try
the HD Tune.

"Gerry" wrote:

Alaye

Does the freezing occur when you boot, after the Desktop
arrives or later?

What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the
Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the
Limit and the Peak?


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