PC Freezing

mercman_3

Hope somebody can offer some good advice / help with my pc

It has taken to freezing up or rebooting at irregular intervals!

Sometimes after it has booted up I get a window that says windows has recovered from a serious error, the error log then suggests a driver is at fault?

Is there anything I can run to diagnose or fix this problem?

It is also running very slowly


Regards


Pete

woo

have you checked for virus, malware etc?

pchelpman

mercman wrote:

the error log then suggests a driver is at fault?

Which driver? have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling/updating this driver?

mercman_3

To be honest I have not got a clue which driver. the window that pops up is quite comprehensive with alot of data on it....so dont really know what driver is at fault!

Wondered if there was a diagnostic tool that could be run to highlight any problems or conflicts with hardware / software?

Cheers

Pete

TMFTP

I had a faulty DIMM that caused that type of error.

You could also check that your system BIOS is up to date - check your motherboard manufacturer's website for details.

Edit - Your system manager (access via your Control Panel) will also report any hardware conflicts - though not hardware conflicting with software.

pchelpman

As TMFTP says. You could try that.

mercman wrote:

the window that pops up is quite comprehensive with alot of data on it....

Can you take a screenshot of it and post it here? The easiest way would be to hit the "Print Screen" key when the error message appears, open a Word document, right click the empty space and left click on "Paste". The screenshot should appear on the document.

mercman_3

cheers,
when it happens again i shall attempt to do that

cheers

Pete