If anyone has ideas on how to stop PC's from locking up repetatively feel free to let us know ae im at that stage where if my cmputa duznt die by itself ill kill it!!!

You could try and give more information here. Knowing that a PC is locking up doesn't really narrow it down...

one of your programs might have a memory leak, my firefox does. if i leave it on all night the pc's nearly frozen!=s

or a virus/worm?

Or conflicting software, or a hardware fault, or a corrupt system file, or a dying hard drive, or a failing power supply.

There are a myriad of problems that could be causing it; I see no point attempting to solve this without more information.

Stop PC Freezing ?
Simple enough for basic information.

he might be running vista

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Originally posted by xen0h
he might be running vista

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are u running vista x64? graphics driver or something may be screwed

Na im jst running xp home an it goes fine for about 5 mins then repetitivly loks up  its like go stop go stop go stop an it still goes but really slow and it sounds like my music skips but its just the pc freezing constantly

format c:?

before i do that what exactly does format:c do???

fixes teh pc

kao knows his stuff, helped me with my pc

ZOMG, IT'S A LIE DON'T DO IT!

um yea but how does it fix it im not the most intelligent person when it comes to computers

sorry for the sarcasm in the pic, i didnt make it.

There wouldn't be hard drive activity when it's clamming up would it?

there is on and off it really does what it wants lol

Sounds like it might be thrashing. Hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring up the task manager, and see if there is anything suspicious running. Check your memory usage and see what it's like. Go to control panel - system - advanced - performance options, and if you had heaps of free memory, reduce the size of your page file, if your memory was low, increase it. [might fix it, but YMMV]

Iv done that but cant see anything sus iv increased room ect the help desk said it could b a corrupt file for windows itself and that id have to reinstall it but id prefer not to cause that means i have to put all my music back on it and because i have a slow CD/R it takes too long to put it all back on

I think your computer is overheating... Touch it. Is it hot?

it doesnt seem to be hot i cleaned out the fan an that works fine im really stumpd on this one

I still think it's overheating
all fans working alright? what brand is it?

mercury nt sure on the statas atm it only has one fan the motherboard is tiny it got one ram slot and 1 pci it hardly got anything

I doubt one fan is enough to cool it talk to their support

I did and they said its probly something to do with the windows software and to re-install

There has to be another way to do this without having to re-install

It might be a legitimate daemon putting stress on the CPU [my laptop did the same thing when I was running ZoneAlarm + XP, uninstalled ZA and it worked fine]. Try terminating AV and indexing services one at a time to see if it makes a difference.

EDIT: Oh! And make sure you've got the latest Windows updates. You may need to manually download them.