My computer screen keeps freezing - any ideas how I fix it?

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My computer screen keeps freezing on me every thirty seconds or so, any idea what could be wrong with it?

― Yack, Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

hit it and say "eyyyyyyy"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Would a sweater or one of those North Face jackets help?

― Stuart (Stuart), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Restart.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Tried that and it still pauses every 30 odd seconds when I'm typing.

― Yack, Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Yack, this may sound weird, but what kind of mouse do you have? I was having a lot of problems with my PC freezing after my mouse would kind of get stuck. I switched to an optical mouse and things have been much better.

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

This was in the past week or so.

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had the same mouse for a few months and no problems until this morning.

― Yack, Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeh, the mouse thing I can see. I think (tries to go back to when he knew about stuff like this) it's sharing the DMA channel with something else, and it all goes Judge Jules from there. Have you started using ANYTHING recently that might get in the way? Maybe a sound card?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing at all.

― Yack, Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

So you havn't installed anything new and havn't put anything new in, but it still keeps dying?

Hmm. This happened to me a while back. It seemed that for no reason I could fathom, one of the RAM chips died in some parts. That may be something to look at, although it'll require some playing around.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 24 April 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Get a program like Sisoft Sandra so you can check out the state of your hardware. It can check yr memory for you and also your temps.
Last summer my computer kept freezing after being on for only a few minutes. I found out that I had allowed too much dust to accumulate inside the case and dustbunnies had sort of melted to and fried my motherboard, causing it to overheat quickly.

― Dan I., Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, we here are mostly not computer problem sorts of people. You would get much better help if you asked around at computing.net

― Dan I., Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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