My computer keeps locking up and coming up with the blue screen of death very frequently. this happens to me at least 20 times per day. I do Virus scan and spyware scan every day to make sure there are none. is my hard drive bad, or is my computer just a piece of crap????
2006-06-08 13:32:42 · 5 answers · asked by fido08 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Try reinstalling the operating system. Reformat the hard disk if you can. A hard disk losing its bearings will do that as well. Try rebooting in DOS from a diskette to eliminate the OS, and Hard Disk.
Take the case off and put a big fan. This will check the microprocessor. The Pentium series has serious heat problems.
2006-06-08 13:43:39 · answer #1 · answered by metaraison 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Computer energy is in binary, so if an error is from something on the motherboard, chances are that your computer will crash long before you go to windows. However, tracking down something of this nature is difficult but not necessarily impossible to find and you should not resort to formatting a hard drive just because someone says so. That is absurd. Anyways, the error can be anything from a corropt file to the bios, to the mother board, ect. So lets start with the files. Search the net and find a free computer cleaner. Even if you have a badly fragmented files, will give you the error. Maybe your files are crossed. Defrag your hard drive. clean your hard rive files. search the net for a reg cleaner. Go into control panel, system, performance, file system and then change the read ahead option. Search for a windows upgrade patch… see, there is lots of options to do. the blue screen of death does not mean that your hard drive is going or its in the bios or something. to verify this, reboot in dos and load some programs. if the programs do not crash, then it is something in windows. Work around the computer to determine where abouts it is coming from. if you know the dos is ok, then you know that it might not be anything on the motherboard, unless it is a ram problem, because widows uses different ram management systems and addresses what may be fixed in bios. another example in the bios would be that the cpu is clocked to fast and that will crash windows when it loads some file.
2006-06-08 21:00:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wipe your drive and start again, or try another hard drive.
A new video card caused blue screen on mine, have you added anything lately?
2006-06-08 20:41:06 · answer #3 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be an overheating CPU, corrupted files in your OS, or very commonly, swelled up capacitors on your mother board.
2006-06-08 20:36:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likely a damaged registry.
Easiest solution will be to save what you can and wipe the driver.
2006-06-08 20:47:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋