Random Lockups...HARD lockups

TennesseeMan said:

torrentg said:

I see it like this:

You had good working computer. You did Windows Update. Broken computer.

I think we need to have a lawsuit against Microsoft for damaging our computers!

I use win 7 on my pc and love it, never an issue. Please stop trolling. Why are you even signed up here if you have a hate passion for windows 7?????

Update: installed vista 64, no LAN cable hooked up. Let sit for 20 mins, locked up. I had to literally disconnect everything inside to get it to bootup, but still locking up.


I dont quite understand how unplugging things, and then re plugging them in, gets this machine to bootup?


whats causing these lockups?

any new ideas?

SMOKKINU said:

Update: installed vista 64, no LAN cable hooked up. Let sit for 20 mins, locked up. I had to literally disconnect everything inside to get it to bootup, but still locking up.


I dont quite understand how unplugging things, and then re plugging them in, gets this machine to bootup?


whats causing these lockups?

I think it's safe to say that something at the hardware level is broken. As you said, the fact that a different PSU changed the behaviour, at least temporarily, is very telling. The fact that it (sometimes?) won't even show video during the POST cannot be caused by software.

As a suggestion, don't attempt to boot to Windows at all, but instead stay in the BIOS configuration menu for extended periods of time. Use that as a gauge of whether any changes you make have improved matters.

While the machine keeps on freezing in the BIOS menu, it's absolutely borked at a hardware level.

Seems the common denominator is all testing so far as been the memory modules?

It seems to be if I leave the computer and it hibernates when I turn back on they keyboard is dead so is mouse so is all output even video and sound even resetting has not brought it wound this time.

opl1990 said:

It seems to be if I leave the computer and it hibernates when I turn back on they keyboard is dead so is mouse so is all output even video and sound even resetting has not brought it wound this time.

what does this have to do with my thread?