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How can I stop my computer from freezing?

Like the description says, my computer randomly freezes on me and I have no idea why. I happens 9 times out of 10 when I'm playing a game (any game), but on those rare 1 out of 10 times its when I have Winamp, Mozilla, or any other program open. My first idea was that it was a software problem so I had my computer completely reformatted, but it still freezes. By freezing, I mean just that. As a more in depth description everything, no matter what I'm doing, stops mid stride. I can't move the mouse, can't open anything up, (if I'm playing a game) nothing on my character moves, music cuts off, and I can't even go to the desktop or do the whole "Crtl+Alt+Delete" thing either. Its just frozen in place and all I can do is manually restart it by either flipping the power swith in the back or by pressing the restart button upfront. My next idea was to get a new mother board but, frankly, I don't have the money right now. I don't get online with that comp, so I know it's not spyware or a virus, and I've even updated to the most recent driver for my videocard. So if anyone... ANYONE at all has any insight as to what might be going on I would Greatly appreciate it.
Tyler Fulton, August 2007
my computer doesn't start and nothing appear on the screen just the led in the maun board is on and nothing working

michel, January 2008
You should check to make sure all of your hardware is properly connected, particularly the hard drive(s) and CD drive(s) as the vibrations caused by spinning could cause the cables to become loose.

Simon, August 2007
check to see what temperature your CPU is running at either via the bios straight after it crashed or via a software program. might just be a case where the CPU is overheating because either the fan is broken, heatsink clogged with dust or even poor contact between the CPU and heatsink.

Emmsy, August 2007
You don't give any clues as to what your PC or OS is and so it's difficult to help. However if you are running Windows XP SP2, make sure that you have a least 512MBytes RAM

t, August 2007