Andrewpaulne
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- Jan 21, 2003
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I've formatted my 80 gig Maxtor to NTFS; since then all my problems went away but now I have one, very extremely annoying and dibilitating problem - that is, my PC hangs sporadically; there's no telling when or if it will. It could last a week from restart to a day, to a few hours. I'm in the process of getting a program to check my memory but I doubt that's the problem. I have all the newest software and drivers for my system and at any time, my PC's never reached higher than 53 degs. C. I've checked for IRQ, etc...etc. conflicts and nothing; I've tried removing USB peripherals but same deal....how do I test hanging if it's not 'a sure thing'? you ask? It's a sure thing when I run a FULL SCAN in Norton AV 2003'. I don't THINK it's my board because despite all the wierd things that used to happen to my PC before I went NTFS, hanging was never one of them. Recurring crashes? Yeah...my search not working? Yeah....data files messed up? Yeah.... but never ever a lockup so bad I can't use Ctrl+Alt+Del.... with this stuff I have to hit the reset or power button.
I've tried: Putting down/up mem speed, benchmarking the ram and hard drives, looking for patches for all my programs, another CPU, different RAM, you suggest it, I've PROBABLY tried it.
I'm here because I'd like more incoming ideas on what ppl think it may be. I used to have a hang problem whenever my software scanners of any kind would look into my uninstall folders, but I dealt with that by deleting the folders that I noticed the hang on and that worked....
But now with this hang, it's like coming from nowhere....I have my virtual mem set to around 2 gigs and my 512 megs is hardly ever maxed.....
Help?
Thanks....
I've tried: Putting down/up mem speed, benchmarking the ram and hard drives, looking for patches for all my programs, another CPU, different RAM, you suggest it, I've PROBABLY tried it.
I'm here because I'd like more incoming ideas on what ppl think it may be. I used to have a hang problem whenever my software scanners of any kind would look into my uninstall folders, but I dealt with that by deleting the folders that I noticed the hang on and that worked....
But now with this hang, it's like coming from nowhere....I have my virtual mem set to around 2 gigs and my 512 megs is hardly ever maxed.....
Help?
Thanks....