[Cylpso]

Hey guys, I'm having problems with my HP Pavilion freezing up, and I'm not sure what's wrong with it.
At first I thought it might be my audio driver(because after about 10 or so minutes of listening to music via my computer, it would freeze), so I went to the HP website and downloaded an audio driver update for the Windows XP operating system. I restarted the computer, and opened the 5 main windows and websites that I go to(in the IE web browser): www.kongregate.com; www.facebook.com; www.youtube.com; www.yahoo.com; and the accessorie Paint. After about 30 minutes, it froze once again.

My friend said it might be my web browser, but I have no way of downloading another web browser to see, because my Grandmother won't let me download another browser. Now, I don't know if this will help, but I thought describing the way it freezes would.
Whenever it freezes, it makes a strange beep noise, then these weird lines appear over words and such. (It's kind of hard to explain, all I can really say is something weird goes on with the appearence of everything) my mouse will not move, and Ctrl+Alt+Dlt does not work. I end up having to hold the power button on the computer down, and force shut down.

[Megabite]

Howdy,

Could be getting warm or maybe the Video card driver needs re installing.

I would go to the HP website and use Auto detect and download and install the video driver there and restart the PC.

[Cylpso]

Alrighty then, I'm going to try the "Driver- Graphics (1)" update, and I felt all up on my computer, and it's not warm.

[Lance1]

Welcome to TSG Cylpso!

I know your Grandmother says NO! but you need to test another browser. The best one to test with is Google Chrome It's basic and bare bones. If you have no issues, go to Firefox The premier browser. If you are still without an issue, stay with Firefox.

[Cylpso]

Well, I tried really hard, but she says no. And since it's not my computer, there isn't anything I can do. I did update the video drive, and it seems to be working OK, as long as I don't keep too many windows open. It seems to have stopped, but after the updat, I was having problems with it restarting..... but like I said, it seems to have stopped.

[flavallee]

Here is the support site for the HP Pavilion a1114n desktop.

You should add and save this site in the browser favorites/bookmarks list so it can readily be referred to whenever needed.

That desktop came with 512 MB of RAM in 2 of its 4 slots. You might consider adding 2 more 512 MB modules to the 2 empty slots.

It uses DDR PC3200(DDR400) modules.

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Let's see what's installed and auto-starting in that desktop and if any obvious issues need to be addressed.

Do the following in the order listed.

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Go here and click the green "Download latest version" link to download and save HiJackThis 2.0.4

After it's been downloaded and saved, close all open windows first, then double-click the saved file to install it.

Allow it to install in its default location - C:\Program Files.

After it's been installed, start it and allow its main window to load.

Uncheck "Do not show this window when I start HiJackThis".

Click "Do a system scan and save a log file".

When the scan is finished in 30 - 60 seconds, a log file will appear.

Save that log file.

Return here to your thread, then copy-and-paste the entire log file here.

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Start HiJackThis.

Click on the "Open The Misc Tools Section" button.

Click on the "Open Uninstall Manager" button.

Click on the "Save List" button.

Save the "uninstall_list.txt" file somewhere.

It'll then open in Notepad.

Return here to your thread, then copy-and-paste the entire file here.

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