Computer freezing - mouse pointer just slows to a stop & then nothing works

JustAnotherSaver

Now i know you're going to need more info than that, so if you ask i'll do my best to answer, but i don't know at this moment what info you'll need.

It's only just started doing it, which is annoying.

closed

reboot

still the same, reboot into safe mode

post a hijackthis log

macman

Make/model/OS?

JustAnotherSaver

Will try hijackthis tomorrow.

I built it myself in 2010 & it's been fine until now.

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (recently updated driver. Possible cause?)
Windows 7 Pro SP1 64bit.

debitcardmayhem

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

Will try hijackthis tomorrow.

I built it myself in 2010 & it's been fine until now.

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (recently updated driver. Possible cause?)
Windows 7 Pro SP1 64bit.

Mouse in another port. I take it the KB is ok i.e. that alt+tab works ok ?

googler

Does it do this at a particular interval or time, say 20mins after switch-on from cold?

Could it be caused by overheating? How long is it since you cleaned the dust out of it? If it's a desktop, take it out into the open air, take the side cover off, and give it a good going over with a can of compressed air to blow the dust out of fan inlets and outlets, and out of the processor heatsink.

I believe there are/is temperature monitors out there that you can download - if it works long enough to download one of these ....

You could open Task Manager and see if anything is hogging resources in the lead up to the mouse failing.

JustAnotherSaver

Well i rolled back the Nvidia driver to its previous

lo & behold ... problem (appears to be) solved.

Must be a bad update then??