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GhaLeoN
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I have a big problem here....
XP is starting to freeze on me now, for like 5-10 min at a time. It does it in a variety of settings. For example : It froze last night when i was running a movie, cuteftp, icq, and IE browser. Just 10 min ago, it froze while I clicked the "show desktop"shortcut, and only cuteftp was running <- this happened like 1 min after I had just rebooted....
Now to describe the 'freeze' itself : The computer will lock up, not crash, for periods of up to 5-10min. During this time the HD activity light is not flashing, I can still move my mouse around the desktop, and the mouse icon changes to a 'loading program' animation when I hit ctrl + alt + delete... when it has come out of the freeze before, 39 taskmanagers were open.
What is going on here? I haven't made any changes to my system to make this start happening...
Someone suggested to me that my system files might have got corrupted somehow. Is there a prog that will tell me if they are corrupt or not? I've ran a virus check which came out clean, reinstalled my via chipset drivers, and reinstalled some other appz as well. I've ran regcleaner, and it came out fine.
The crashing seems to happen only when some specfic programs are running - is this logical? Would certain software do this to a machine?
Please help : I really dont want to have to reformat
XP is starting to freeze on me now, for like 5-10 min at a time. It does it in a variety of settings. For example : It froze last night when i was running a movie, cuteftp, icq, and IE browser. Just 10 min ago, it froze while I clicked the "show desktop"shortcut, and only cuteftp was running <- this happened like 1 min after I had just rebooted....
Now to describe the 'freeze' itself : The computer will lock up, not crash, for periods of up to 5-10min. During this time the HD activity light is not flashing, I can still move my mouse around the desktop, and the mouse icon changes to a 'loading program' animation when I hit ctrl + alt + delete... when it has come out of the freeze before, 39 taskmanagers were open.
What is going on here? I haven't made any changes to my system to make this start happening...
Someone suggested to me that my system files might have got corrupted somehow. Is there a prog that will tell me if they are corrupt or not? I've ran a virus check which came out clean, reinstalled my via chipset drivers, and reinstalled some other appz as well. I've ran regcleaner, and it came out fine.
The crashing seems to happen only when some specfic programs are running - is this logical? Would certain software do this to a machine?
Please help : I really dont want to have to reformat