My main computer has a 3ghz Pentium 4 and is around 2-3 years old, Yesterday I got home and sat down to do stuff, Everything would work fine for a few seconds and then it freezes up, This goes on for a few minutes until I get fed up and restart, The same thing happens while the BIOS loads and during the "Windows is Loading" screen, I get fed up and turn it off.
What do you all think it is? I'm assuming its the motherboard for now.
Certainly sounds like that's a possibility... A couple of things to consider/try:
1-Try reseating the ram... Sounds crazy, but it might help.
2-Start unplugging cards, ram, etc. (peripherals) until there's not much left but the motherboard, cpu, keyboard, and video... See if it freezes up then...
When you reseat the ram, also have a look at the motherboard's capacitors(the little cylinders) and see if any are puffed out at the top instead of flat. Bad capacitors can sometimes cause wierd errors.
It could be all sorts of things though.
Have you installed any new hardware recently?
It could be your RAM is going bad as well, or is incompatibly configured.
Could be a virus.
Could be overheating as well, although usually that doesn't cause freezing.
Well, Just talked to the computer guy.
Seems that the two drives where set up as RAID 0 rather than RAID 1 and I got MASSIVE FUCKING DATA LOSS because one of them failed.
I'm gonna go be emo and cry over all my lost anime stuff. :(
If you do RAID, do it right. RAID without parity is just calling for trouble.
Meh, what's the point of RAID if you're not running a server, anyway?
Well, at least you know what your problem is. Nothing worse than going to the trouble/expense of replacing a motherboard only to find that it's something else.
>Meh, what's the point of RAID if you're not running a server, anyway?
The company my dad got the computer from specializes in CAD software and hardware, Apparently RAID 0 drives run/load/whatever CAD programs faster than mirrored drives.
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They are faster at loading and saving, but they're also risky as you just found out and companies usually make regular backups on their servers in case the workstations give out like yours did.
>companies usually make regular backups on their servers in case the workstations give out.
No shit Sherlock.