laptop freezing..........

Jacklin2001

hi,

my laptop keeps freezing and therefore i have to turn it off and back on by the power button.

it does this while i am just browsing the internet or even playing a game while disconnected from the internet.

i thought it could be to do with overheating but i have purchased a cooling pad and its still doing it.

i have also checked for spyware, ran anti-virus and even checked all the processes running in the background and closed the ones that aint needed.

have any of you got any ideas what this could be to do with?

thanks

andy

Sweetchuck

What kind of laptop do you have? How much RAM does it have? What OS are you using? What kind of games/applications are you using?

Not having enough memory to support your applications or games is one of the most common causes of freezing.

Try downloading Startup Inspector (or use the startup function in Microsoft Anti-Spyware) to disable all non-essential startup programs completely.

If you can't get to the root of the problem then the best thing to do is backup all your data and do a full reinstallation of your OS. If it keeps freezing, then it's 99% sure that you have a hardware problem.

Hunnymonster

Jacklin2001 wrote:

i thought it could be to do with overheating but i have purchased a cooling pad and its still doing it.

It still could be - if the insides are caked with dust etc. I had a recommendation (from work) to get a can of compressed air to spray through the fan intake etc (best to do outside - unless you like vacuuming lol) though I used the moneysaving alternative of a drinking straw and a bloomin' good blow.

It could be that you have a faulty RAM chip, or a motheboard fault that's developed - short of obtaining another RAM chip to try and another PC to try your RAM in, I can't think of a method to eliminate either as a cause

Jacklin2001

i have reinstalled windows professional and it keepsa freezing every so often.

i have got a compaq presario intel celeron 2.8ghz, 1.2G RAM and i am olny going on the internet and playin football manager 2006.

is there any way i could tell what the problem is?

when i did a fresh install it didnt freeze for about a week an then it started doing it every so often

albertross_2

http://safety.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm

Give it the onceover patch wise. and check to see if there are any driver updates available on the manufacturers website. Reseat the ram.

gunneradt

in my experience freezing like this often means a faulty graphics card. I hope you dont have onboard graphics.

albertross_2

gunneradt wrote:

in my experience freezing like this often means a faulty graphics card. I hope you dont have onboard graphics.

it's a laptop..