Random Shut Downs

mercman_3

Hi,

Once again turn to the vast knowledge that this forum has in the hope you can assist with a computer problem i am having

Computer randomly freezes ( cursor freezes and not even cntrl - alt - del works).

Have to reboot....sometimes but rarely then get a window up saying windows has recovered from a serious fault, but not all the time

Has on occasion just given me a blue screen with the usual 'begining dump of physical memory' shown

I believe this may well be a hardware problem....is there a quick easy way to fault diagnose?

Regards

Pete

DrSmutt

clean out your cpu fan.(if needed)

this all based on Windows XP (you didnt tell us)

right click on my computer goto properties goto advanced

startup and recovery -> settings (3rd one down)

untick automatically restart in the system failure section.

that will prevent windows restart on fatal error.

mercman_3

Thanks

Is there a quick way i can check update the hardware drivers?

Regards

Pete

is XP home i am using

DrSmutt

i do each bit of hardware.

but i think there are programs to do this for you.