re: Unknown freezing issue Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7:55 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum