HELP!

[MadCatChiken]

Computer keeps freezing up like every 10mins or so then i have to restart it, i've checked device manger, shows everything working. Try system restores, disk checks. Still doing it and i dunno know why, its been doing it since thursday night... pissing me off. Mabey a defrag?

[SlackahChiken]

PSU, CPU Fan, SYS Chipset Fan

[MadCatChiken]

Well everything in the device manager shows working.. I dunno i don't want to have to reformat the HDD.

[DruidChiken]

check the fans on cpu and psu

My sons pc started locking up and it was a sticky cpu fan causing it to run too hot

[Tarn]

I had a similar issue when my 3.3v rail was dropping too low. It caused my PC to freeze up. My motherboard would give a warning tone when the 3.3v dipped too low though. I downloaded a free program called Speedfan to monitor my voltages, it also let me set a threshold that would sound an alarm in passed.

[MadCatChiken]

my PSU seems to be quite warm, but i can exactly get to the fan in it so i don't know if its got a bit stuck or if its fine. Mabey its dusty causing the fan to be flower... get a hoover and hoover the PSU?

[Clepto Chiken]

can of air is your best friend, us it religiously.

[CRUSCHIKEN]

yup, mine started doin that too after revelations...threw a 120 mm on the side of it(after cutting big hole). fixed it right up......just open the side up and put a big fan on it and see if that fixes it...if it does...that's your problem...GL.

[MadCatChiken]

and it did. =)