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re: My computer freezes/locks up completely after.... Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 1:23 pm Posted by Mark (1810 messages posted) Download and run Aida32. Look through each item and locate the one that is reported as a fault. The program provides link to update the driver. On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 12:38 pm, Igor wrote: >I try to shut it down through "Start/Turn off computer" > >This happens almost everytime. Also, for example, if I run a program like Azureus >or something, and shut THAT down, it also freezes, and it doesn't just happen with >those occurances, sometimes anything can cause it. > >Here's what I did find out though, my computer said that I have a "Bad Device Driver" >the problem is, I don't know how to find that "bad driver" to take care of the problem. > > >What can be done to solve this problem? Is there anything? > >Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My computer freezes/locks up completely after.... Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 1:53 pm Posted by Igor (45 messages posted) I'm sorry for sounding like a dumbass, but I downloaded this program, but where do I go once it's launched? There are so many various options, also... I can only obtain the iinformation on what bad device drive it is after my computer 'crashes'. See, sometimes it freezes, and sometimes it crashes, but crashing only occurs once in a while. Sometimes the screen would go all BLUE and then it would restart, or I would have to hit the restart button, and once its restarted a message pops up, and takes me to Microsoft site telling me whats the problem, etc.. On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 1:23 pm, Mark wrote: >Download and run Aida32. > Look through each item and locate the one that is reported as a fault. The program >provides link to update the driver. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My computer freezes/locks up completely after.... Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 2:41 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Joe's List / System cleanup When you get the blue screen, what "exactly" is the displayed error message. Record all of it and post here. Does the problem occur in Safe Mode? As for determining what device driver is bad, start by removing everything from your system except memory, video, mouse and keyboard. Does the problem occur with just those connected? If not, then start connecting stuff up one at a time until you find the one that is causing the crash. If you still get the error with the minimal hardware above then it is either the Video, Memory, CPU or System Board. Repair install / Clean install [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My computer freezes/locks up completely after.... Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 2:51 pm Posted by Igor (45 messages posted) By removing everything what do you mean by that? disassembling the computer? I'm fairly newbie. I haven't tried safe mode. How can I stop the blue screen from disappearing, because it only stays there on for either a minute or 30 seconds, I won't be able to record in such a short period of time, I know there's a way to manually make the blue screen just sit there the next time comp crashes, but forgot how. On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 2:41 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote: >Joe's List / >href=http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2852>System cleanup >width="60%" align="left" size=2 color=orange> >When you get the blue screen, what "exactly" is the displayed error message. Record >all of it and post here. > >Does the problem occur in Safe Mode? > >As for determining what device driver is bad, start by removing everything from your >system except memory, video, mouse and keyboard. Does the problem occur with just >those connected? If not, then start connecting stuff up one at a time until you find >the one that is causing the crash. > >If you still get the error with the minimal hardware above then it is either the >Video, Memory, CPU or System Board. > > > >Repair install / >Clean install [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My computer freezes/locks up completely after.... Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 4:41 pm Posted by Mark (1810 messages posted) When the blue screen appears press Pause (top right hand corner of keyboard). Then you will be able to record what the error is. As far as Aida32 is concerned, if you do not know where you downloaded it, then do a file search. Click Start, Search, For Files or Folders, type in aida32. When it finds it just double click on it, it will reveal Aida32.exe. Double click on it and it will search and reveal all the information about your computer. On the left hand side, click the +sign and it will expand all the information on the right hand side. Look at it carefully and see if it reports a problem. Repeat for each +sign. Somewhere, during the examination, you should find a problem. It will report it even without the blue sccreen. If there is a problem then there will also be a link, in blue, to a site where you can download and update a particular driver. On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 2:51 pm, Igor wrote: >By removing everything what do you mean by that? disassembling the computer? I'm >fairly newbie. I haven't tried safe mode. How can I stop the blue screen from disappearing, >because it only stays there on for either a minute or 30 seconds, I won't be able >to record in such a short period of time, I know there's a way to manually make the >blue screen just sit there the next time comp crashes, but forgot how. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My computer freezes/locks up completely after.... Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 10:37 am Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Joe's List / System cleanup Yes, I mean opening up the computer and removing everything except what I mentioned. If you're not comfortable doing this then it's probably not a good idea. Do you have any "techie" friends that could help you with this? To prevent the computer from automatically restarting when you get the error: Go to System Properties (right-click on My Computer) - Advanced - Startup and Recovery - Settings - Un-check Automatically restart. Then you should be able to copy down (and post here) the exact information displayed on the blue screen. Repair install / Clean install [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My computer freezes/locks up completely after.... Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 1:12 pm Posted by Igor (45 messages posted) I was doing a little reading on this site ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314464 ) and it guided me into checking on some things. Here is what I've managed to find out through "System Information" http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/3389/baddevices6qa.jpg -the problem is, how do I enable, delete those drivers now? On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 12:38 pm, Igor wrote: >I try to shut it down through "Start/Turn off computer" > >This happens almost everytime. Also, for example, if I run a program like Azureus >or something, and shut THAT down, it also freezes, and it doesn't just happen with >those occurances, sometimes anything can cause it. > >Here's what I did find out though, my computer said that I have a "Bad Device Driver" >the problem is, I don't know how to find that "bad driver" to take care of the problem. > > >What can be done to solve this problem? Is there anything? > >Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My computer freezes/locks up completely after.... Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 6:21 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Joe's List / System cleanup You should be able to disable them from Device Manager via a right click on each device and select Disable. Repair install / Clean install [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum