re: Random Startups and Freezing..
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(7827 messages posted)
VGA mode, the black screens and the no signals all indicate a video problem so I
would swap out the video card. Messing with the driver will do no good if the card
itself is dead. If the card is built into the motherboard then install a new one
and the motherboard should automatically cut the old one off , but disable it yourself
if you have to.
On Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:05 am, Casey C. wrote:
>Hi, guys! I've got a PC that's acting pretty crazy. This PC hadn't started doing
>this until about two months or so ago. It's not used very often, so it might have
>been earlier than that. Anyway, lately, it seems to just randomly freeze or just
>give me a black screen (which, I'm guessing by this computer that it's a restart
>or something, though the computer doesn't shut down, cause you can still hear the
>fan's whirling.) Sometimes, I'll get an 'out of signal' or 'no signal' message on
>the screen as soon as it freezes, though when I receive no signal, it's usually
by
>the time the screen has gone black, so I'm guessing it's restarting. I've tried
many
>different things. First off, I thought it was a video driver problem, so I installed
>the updated versions, and it still didn't fix the problem (the computer was running
>in 400x600 because it didn't have a standard vga driver). Secondly, I thought it
>might be a hardware problem, and I had always heard that power supplies can cause
>such dilemma, so I bought a new one and installed it, and still nothing. I also
thought
>it might be the error message that I keep generating in Event Viewer: The ASPI32
>service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file
>specified. But, I went to adaptec and installed ASPI Version 4.71, and now the error
>message isn't being generated anymore, and it's STILL not working. I'm wondering
>if it could be the CPU or the memory, but i'm not entirely sure. Usually it'll freeze
>or shut down when a webpage is loading (such as opening an email account or a rather
>heavy page). I tried to install a program called Motherboard Monitor to see what
>the temperature of the CPU was, but it says -55 C, so I highly doubt it's really
>working, lol. So, if you guys have any suggestions on what I should do next, I'd
>humbly appreciate it! Thank you so much for reading!
>I've tried many different things. First off, I thought it was a video driver problem,
>so I installed the updated versions, and it still didn't fix the problem (the computer
>was running in 400x600 because it didn't have a standard vga driver). Secondly,
>I thought it might be a hardware problem, and I had always heard that power supplies
>can cause such dilemma, so I bought a new one and installed it, and still nothing.
> I also thought it might be the error message that I keep generating in Event Viewer:
>The ASPI32 service failed to start due to the following error:
>The system cannot find the file specified.
>
>But, I went to adaptec and installed ASPI Version 4.71, and now the error message
>isn't being generated anymore, and it's STILL not working. I'm wondering if it
could
>be the CPU or the memory, but i'm not entirely sure. Usually it'll freeze or shut
>down when a webpage is loading (such as opening an email account or a rather heavy
>page). I tried to install a program called Motherboard Monitor to see what the
temperature
>of the CPU was, but it says -55 C, so I highly doubt it's really working, lol.
So,
>if you guys have any suggestions on what I should do next, I'd humbly appreciate
>it!
>
>Thank you so much for reading!
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- Random Startups and Freezing.. (Casey C.: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:05 am)
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