Greetings.
I've started having a problem in the last few weeks which seemed intermittent at first but now has become a frequent nuisance, and at one point I thought might have bricked my PC.
After a few hours of intensive graphical work in a 3D modelling application, he system froze (not completely, I could still navigate some windows) for about 20 seconds. This meant music stopped, and the application stopped responding. Then it seemed to regain its bearings and I carried on as normal.
I noticed however as this happened, there was a short wirring noise from either a fan or a disk, followed by a very short blip from the internal speaker. Not even as long as the standard 1-blip beep code you get when you switch on.
Anyway this happened maybe once a day after long usage. Until yesterday when the same thing happened in gaps of maybe 5 minutes, making carrying on working very difficult.
So I did a reboot, at which point the computer took ages to load up, and told me the registry was corrupt. I ignored that and tried again. It took a while but it booted up.... and everything went excruciatingly slow.
Just opening folders took 5 minutes, with the beeping sound happening everytime I did anything. I switched off and went to bed.
Today it seems ok. It's done it twice, after I tried to extract a huge rar file. So I'm running chckdsk and glary utilities today, maybe even a defrag, just incase it's the disk.
Anyway, that's the summary.
I'll try and dig out some more detailed specs if anyone needs them but for now:
Windows Vista
Nvidia gt 250
500gb hard drive (less than 3 gig free)
intel core 2 duo
Asus motherboard (not sure exact details)
Any help will be gratefully received
I've started having a problem in the last few weeks which seemed intermittent at first but now has become a frequent nuisance, and at one point I thought might have bricked my PC.
After a few hours of intensive graphical work in a 3D modelling application, he system froze (not completely, I could still navigate some windows) for about 20 seconds. This meant music stopped, and the application stopped responding. Then it seemed to regain its bearings and I carried on as normal.
I noticed however as this happened, there was a short wirring noise from either a fan or a disk, followed by a very short blip from the internal speaker. Not even as long as the standard 1-blip beep code you get when you switch on.
Anyway this happened maybe once a day after long usage. Until yesterday when the same thing happened in gaps of maybe 5 minutes, making carrying on working very difficult.
So I did a reboot, at which point the computer took ages to load up, and told me the registry was corrupt. I ignored that and tried again. It took a while but it booted up.... and everything went excruciatingly slow.
Just opening folders took 5 minutes, with the beeping sound happening everytime I did anything. I switched off and went to bed.
Today it seems ok. It's done it twice, after I tried to extract a huge rar file. So I'm running chckdsk and glary utilities today, maybe even a defrag, just incase it's the disk.
Anyway, that's the summary.
I'll try and dig out some more detailed specs if anyone needs them but for now:
Windows Vista
Nvidia gt 250
500gb hard drive (less than 3 gig free)
intel core 2 duo
Asus motherboard (not sure exact details)
Any help will be gratefully received