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re: Unknown freezing issue
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7:55 pm
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Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted)


off hand I would say make sure you did not knock the heatsink loose while you were 
working. 





On Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 4:56 pm, Nevada Cooke wrote:
>I just recently purchased a new 1.5TB hard drive and 4GB of extra memory for my computer.
>I opened up my computer and tossed them in, but when I started the computer up again
>and attempted to format the hard drive, it froze. I forced a restart not thinking
>anything of it and went about my business, but it continues to happen. It'll freeze
>when I'm browsing the internet, or when I've left nothing running but the attempted
>format of the hard drive. Everything just locks up and stays that way until I restart
>it.
>
>I've tried the computer without the memory and hard drive in and the problem remains.
>I just took my entire computer apart and put it back together to check all the connections,
>but upon turning it on it froze after about 20 minutes, just browsing the internet.
>
>I ran a malware and anti-virus scan in safe mode, but nothing turned up. It has yet
>to freeze in safe mode as well.
>
>Any ideas what's causing the problem? When I first turned on the computer to format
>the drive, I chose to format it as MBR rather than GPT. Could this cause an issue?
>
>Specs:
>CPU - Q9300 @ 3GHz
>Mobo - nVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra
>RAM - 4GB Patriot Extreme Performance 1333MHz DDR3 (plus 4GB I just bought, totalling
>8GB)
>GPU - BFG GeForce GTX 285
>Sound card - Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty
>Hard drives - WD 150GB Raptor drive (for OS and system files)
>- 2x WD 500GB drives
>- 2x WD 1.5TB drives (one of which is new)



Written in response to:
Unknown freezing issue (Nevada Cooke: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 4:56 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Unknown freezing issue (Nevada Cooke: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 8:49 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Unknown freezing issue (Nevada Cooke: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 4:56 pm)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Adam Bradley: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 7:55 pm)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Nevada Cooke: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 8:49 pm)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (jbmcmillan: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 5:05 am)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Nevada Cooke: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 5:36 am)
*re: Unknown freezing issue (Ricer46: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 8:45 am)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Steve: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 9:27 am)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Nevada Cooke: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 10:19 am)
*re: Unknown freezing issue (Steve: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 12:14 pm)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Ricer46: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 12:33 pm)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Nevada Cooke: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 1:02 pm)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Steve: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 1:21 pm)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Nevada Cooke: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 1:25 pm)
*re: Unknown freezing issue (Steve: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 1:28 pm)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Ricer46: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 2:38 pm)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Nevada Cooke: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 7:28 pm)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Ricer46: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 10:20 am)
-re: Unknown freezing issue (Nevada Cooke: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 1:22 pm)
*re: Unknown freezing issue (Ricer46: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 3:54 pm)
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