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System Freezes

Asked by etechs in Miscellaneous Hardware, Computer Displays / Monitors, Computer Fans and Cooling

Tags: system, freeze, my, use

Hi all,

I am fixing a computer for a friend that consistenly crashes. It used to just lose part of the registry on startup and I would go into the repair mode (via the windows XP Pro CD) and copy the appropriate file from C:\windows\repair into c:\windows\system32\config to get it going again. Painful.
Now though, after it did this again it started up ok but freezes completely without warning or screen errors. Just hangs, no mouse or Ctrl -alt - del.

So, I formatted it and began loading windows again. Now I find that it's freezing during while I'm trying to install windows. Not at any one point but anywhere, anytime. I am pretty sure it's a hardware problem from here on in as I have formatted the drive during hte first part of the reinstallation.

My question is, is there a preffered method for troubleshooting hardware issues. I can probably go about it using bits and pieces I've got around here to replace item after item inside the sys but where would the gurus start first?

Thanks,
Joe

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System Freezes

Asked by etechs in Miscellaneous Hardware, Computer Displays / Monitors, Computer Fans and Cooling

Tags: system, freeze, my, use

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