Computer problems...freezing,shutting down,restarting?

Question

My computer freezes when i try to open programmes. I have tried virus scans and system resore, with no luck. I was 24% into defragmenting and my pc restarted itself, came up with my desktop and said it had recovered from a serious error. I tried to open a programme and the screen went blank and it said "no operating system" but it seemed to right itself when i pressed ctrl alt del. Pease help.

sevice pack 2

windoes xp home edition

Answer 1

Could you be running Win XP on a PC with integrated graphics and 256Mb RAM? Opening of programmes take up all available RAM and possibly the error occurs when accessing virtual RAM.
Try increasing RAM to at least 512Mb.

Answer 2

this is a error that i have experienced myself mate so dont beat yourself up that its just your p.c
theres many reasons why your p,c is having these problems but the two main reasons in order of preference are
1. hard drive...your hard drive is about to fail,and minor errors on the hard drive become serious errors in the windows enviroment,the symptoms are a) the screen will go black and the monitor will read"no signal" b)games and applications will either freeze or crash mid session
2. graphic card..if the card is faulty then errors will occur especially during games and graphic intensive applications,try another card to cancel this problem out
3.memory..incompatible memory is another reason for crashes,although you can mix ddr and ddr2 speeds its allways best to use the same speeds(pc3200 ect)
4. psu...a good and sufficent power supply is a must,especially if you have a high end card which requires a power source,they eat power like anything
as you can see there are loads of factors that can cause your problem but i am leaning towards the hard drive as the issue here
the reason for this is the defragmenting that caused your p.c to restart(there is a way to stop the restarts go to control panel>system properties>advanced>start up and recovery>and uncheck the box"automatically restart",then press ok,this will stop any restarts due to a error)
solution: replace the hard drive and if your p.c supports s.a.t.a hard drives then use these drives as they are quicker and have less errors than the older p.a.t.a drives
any problems let me know
good luck mate!

Answer 3

you have partly performed a restart in safe mode go through the proces fully to recover your system. ctrl+alt+del this will give a black screen with white writing scroll down to restart in safe mode then press enter. maclaren.

Answer 4

You have got a virus on their a nasty one at that please don't say you have norton on their this is mereley spyware and takes 90% of your systems resorces. If you do uninstall norton and down load the following. AVG,Spybot,Adaware all these three work as a team and don't use any resorces whatsoever. This will fix your problem if you can get it to go that far that is.

Answer 5

right click your hard drive in my computer (usually c) click properties, tools, error checking, tick both boxes, press start, iyt will then tell you it will do it on the next start up so retstart your computer. hopefully you will be able to do this before the computer restarts itself. hope this helps

Answer 6

DEAR SIR

THIS MEANS THAT YOUR HARD DRIVE HAS CRASHED

AND BURNED UP ON YOU SO SIR WHAT EVER KIND

YOU HAVE SAY A DELL YOU NEED TO CALL DELL AND

TELL THE THE MODEL LIKE 2400 SERIES AND GET YOU

A NEW HARD DRIVE BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT FIX THIS

ON IT HAS A VIRUS CALLED A TROJAN HORSE THAT

EAT UP COMPUTERS IF YOU VISITED THE WRONG WEB

SITE ARE PLAYED GAMES THAT HAD A VIRUS IN IT

THAT IS ALL SHE WROTE OK PS MY BROTHER IS A I T

PERSON AND HAS TO FIX MINE 4 TIMES A YEAR

BECAUSE OF IT OK

GOOD LUCK

TAKE CARE

Answer 7

What version do you have? What service pack etc?