my computer which is bran new freezes with absolutely no warning?

Question

like while im just surfing, and maybe having media player in the background, it just randomly freezes for no reaosn, and i have to restart the comp, im not even able to go into tast manager, or even move the mouse

it only happens when the comp has been on for like the whole day

i think it happens when it starts paging.like when the ram is finished.idk

its nothing to do with spyware /viruses, coz i do scans all the time
and my old 512 ram comp never just froze and it always had viruses on it..

this one has 800 megs ram
3gig cpu
vista

Answer 1

Your last word explains it all

VISTA

It's just one of the "features" that Microsoft haven't fully sorted out yet

Answer 2

Please tell what type of computer you have, there have been problems with dell computers having a freezing problem caused by the disc drives.
See this post
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1352596&SiteID=17


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Good news, it looks like the problem is solved !!!
Indeed, after reporting the problem to Dell Europe, I was called by a technician who told me that a solution had been found and how to fix the problem. He kindly assisted me on the phone during the whole process.
(This fix applies to a Dell Dimension 9200 with two hard disks in RAID 0 on SATA ports 0 & 1 and two CD drives on SATA ports 2 & 3)
What I had to do was move the CD drives from SATA ports 2 and 3 to ports 4 and 5. If you open your computer, you will see two orange cables coming from the CD drives to connectors on the motherboard. Two other free connectors are located underneath. You just have to disconnect both cables and connect them into the lower set of connectors.
After this is done, when you restart the computer, you have to go to the setup (F2 at startup) and change the status of the SATA ports 2, 3, 4 and 5:
Drives
SATA-2 set to OFF
SATA-3 set to OFF
SATA-4 set to ON
SATA-5 set to ON
You can then save and leave the setup. After you restart, the computer runs smoothly.
I did this about an hour ago and didn't experience any freeze yet. I guess the "30 second freeze syndrome" is history now.

Addendum: now it's 5 hours later and everything is still fine. Operation successful !

Answer 3

well i guess there is no reason to answer this.

Vista is worse WORSE than MILLENIUM EDITION aka ME. POS. Keep with the XP. they have two versions of it now, they have the regular 32 bit, then they have the the 64 bit, wich is only compatable with a graphics card that supports 64 bits. most OTC PC's do NOt carry these. Stick with the xp dude. Seriously

Answer 4

Your fellow advisers may be right dude, from all I've heard windows Vista is junk. It was just not ready to put on the market yet. Windows XP is by far the better windows program.

Answer 5

Vista is a living nightmare, take your computer back and ask for one that doesn't have crap on it like Vista.
Preferably get a Mac.