what to check first if PC hangs?

**fourtheboys96** · February 13th, 2008 09:45 AM

mejo madalas mag hang yung bagong PC namin. anu ba dapat i-check muna? gusto ko sana magka idea muna bago dalhin sa repair shop to claim warranty if ever.

amd athlon 64 x2
AS Rock motherboard (on board LAN and video card)
1GB memory (kingston)
150GB HD
I installed a firewire port

minsan nag-hang siya kahit na ordinary task lang ang ginagawa ko like browsing the web (using firefox). minsa naman pag nag capture ako ng vids from a video cam, wala siya problema.

any suggestions? tnx!

**darksword_08** · February 13th, 2008 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by fourtheboys96

mejo madalas mag hang yung bagong PC namin. anu ba dapat i-check muna? gusto ko sana magka idea muna bago dalhin sa repair shop to claim warranty if ever.

amd athlon 64 x2
AS Rock motherboard (on board LAN and video card)
1GB memory (kingston)
150GB HD
I installed a firewire port

minsan nag-hang siya kahit na ordinary task lang ang ginagawa ko like browsing the web (using firefox). minsa naman pag nag capture ako ng vids from a video cam, wala siya problema.

any suggestions? tnx!

dude make sure na lahat ng cable, connectors, memory, cards are slotted properly

branded ba yan?

ilan watts ba PSU mu dapat jan system mu minimum of 500watts na PSU

if not it will frequently hang power hungry yung specs mo eh

**cablespy** · February 13th, 2008 10:06 AM

Close programs running in the background or clear startup programs.

**DonT** · February 13th, 2008 10:08 AM

Try to clean and reinsert the memory modules...
if you have more than 1 mem module, try to take them out one by one. Maybe there's one mem card which is faulty.

**1D4LV** · February 13th, 2008 11:15 AM

madami eh...hangs can be caused by a lot of factors, namely drivers, yung operating systems mismo, installed applications or even the hardware.

hanggang ngayon may tinitira kaming PC dito sa office na naghahang din. among the activities that we have taken:

a) checked the cables inside. ok naman.
b) checked the system for virus. although may nakita na Trojan, nung natanggal, naghahang pa din.
c) since may nakitang virus, we assumed na baka may tinamaang DLL sa OS. so we repaired the OS. naghahang pa din.
d) we decided to clean format and clean install the OS. ganun pa din.
e) we have checked the RAM for loose connections. Ok naman.
f) we isolated a defective USB port. so assuming na yun ang nagiging cause, pinalitan namin ng USB. ganun pa din.
g) yun pala ang problema is yung CMOS...

**chilli** · February 13th, 2008 11:25 AM

-try to check your newly added hardware or software. if its started when you add these, maybe you need to uninstall this and check if your computer dont freeze up.

-Try also running your antivirus and some spyware removal tool. You may have virus or spyware/adaware that causes this freeze.

-You may also want to check your available hard disk space.

- Before in my desktop, overheating causes my PC to hang as well. you might want to check this issue as well.

- if ever you can also check the memory. try to run the memory diagnotic test. if it fails, you may want to reseat your memory. if it doesnt work, replace mo na lang sya.

**Syuryuken** · February 13th, 2008 12:53 PM

ilang watts power supply mo? check the fans (power supply, processor), try mo ding tanggalin yung cover ng casing habang ginagamit mo, kung ayaw pa rin malamang may tama sa hardware mo.

**Jun aka Pekto** · February 13th, 2008 01:15 PM

Most of what I wanted to say have already been mentioned.......

But, you can still check System Information to find out which devices share an IRQ. Most have no problems. But, there are some that don't like sharing. If you find one or more devices sharing an IRQ, that may point you towards the right direction. Here's a couple of samples. Obviously, Vista is much better than XP in managing IRQ sharing......

Vista (Toshiba laptop)

XP Home (My main pc)

I also make it a point to disable in the bios any ports/devices I'm not using, eg: floppy drive controller, parallel port, idle com ports, RAID, etc

**Jun aka Pekto** · February 13th, 2008 01:26 PM

Check the IRQ's on all your add-in cards and see if it shares the IRQ with another device. That may clue you in.

**EGD16** · February 13th, 2008 02:25 PM

factor..
1.pls check processor fan
2.pls check OS or scan moh baka may virus..
3.hardware defecive: hardisk, ram..

**EGcoolmhan** · February 13th, 2008 02:27 PM

bro, di mo na-mention kung anung running OS ng pc mo...MS OS2k MS OSXP MS OSVISTA...dami kasi factors niyan lalo na't hang ang pinag-uusapan. bro, kung gusto mong wag nang maghanap ng problema niya...format mo muna yang PC mo at i-partition mo ng maayos yang harddisk mo po.

let say 25% for drive c. and 25% sa drive d and last partition is 50%..(assuming lang po yan, its up to you kung panu mo hahatiin yan.)kung naghang PC mo while installing OS, may prob na hardware mo...

kung natapos muna lagyan ng OS at mga drivers, observe mo muna..kung may hang parin..dun kana mag-test ng hardware kung anu na ang may sira..

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just like me before, kala ko motherboard ang sira yun pala PSU lang.kulang pla sa power.

Good luck!

**Syuryuken** · February 13th, 2008 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by EGcoolmhan

bro, di mo na-mention kung anung running OS ng pc mo...MS OS2k MS OSXP MS OSVISTA...dami kasi factors niyan lalo na't hang ang pinag-uusapan. bro, kung gusto mong wag nang maghanap ng problema niya...format mo muna yang PC mo at i-partition mo ng maayos yang harddisk mo po.

let say 25% for drive c. and 25% sa drive d and last partition is 50%..(assuming lang po yan, its up to you kung panu mo hahatiin yan.)kung naghang PC mo while installing OS, may prob na hardware mo...

kung natapos muna lagyan ng OS at mga drivers, observe mo muna..kung may hang parin..dun kana mag-test ng hardware kung anu na ang may sira..

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just like me before, kala ko motherboard ang sira yun pala PSU lang.kulang pla sa power.

Good luck!

doble trabaho yan pano kung yung hardware lang ang sira? pwede namang madiagnose na hindi na irereformat.

**Jun aka Pekto** · February 13th, 2008 03:09 PM

Diagnosing a "freeze" is a tedious process of elimination......

like browsing the web (using firefox)

Firefox by itself takes up nothing but ram. That could point you to the ram module. But if you're browsing with sound and video, then the audio and video subsystems come into the picture, and so on. That's why I recommended checking the IRQ settings just in case the audio and video are sharing an IRQ with anything else like memory address space (ties in to ram) or say, the usb interface.

It's important you analyze as many factors as you can before opening the case and messing with the hardware components.

Add: If your pc's under warranty, heck with this. Let your pc dealer deal with it.

FrankDrebin · February 13th, 2008 03:22 PM

Also, have time to review your Event Viewer.

;)

**wildthing** · February 13th, 2008 09:05 PM

Nangyayari sa akin yan pag medyo madumi na connections ng mga cards - usually yun video car ko.

so I just remove the card and use a pencil eraser to erase the contacts.

after that okay na ulit.

yung sa officemake ko naman, he had a defective RAM.

**fourtheboys96** · February 14th, 2008 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by darksword_08

dude make sure na lahat ng cable, connectors, memory, cards are slotted properly

branded ba yan?

ilan watts ba PSU mu dapat jan system mu minimum of 500watts na PSU

if not it will frequently hang power hungry yung specs mo eh

ndi siya branded bru.

anu yung PSU?

will check muna yung watts ng system then check ung kaya nung generic avr. will probably buy a branded AVR siguro.

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

Check the IRQ's on all your add-in cards and see if it shares the IRQ with another device. That may clue you in.

ok. will check these as well as the hardware connections. minsan kasi yung monitor ko bigla ding nagwawala. blue and white diagonal lines lang lumalabas.

i am a windows XP corporate edition. i am using the same OS dun sa lumang laptop ko na Pentium 3 lang. wala naman problema sa laptop.

**Jun aka Pekto** · February 14th, 2008 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by fourtheboys96

blue and white diagonal lines lang lumalabas.

That may be a sign of either overheating or insufficient voltage getting to the monitor..... But, you mentioned the video is integrated. So I'm leaning towards the power supply (PSU).

What's the watt output of your PSU and the brand?

Better yet list all the hardware you have in your pc to include the number of:
internal hard drives
optical drives
any unpowered external usb/firewire/sata devices
number of cooling fans (including cpu)

**fourtheboys96** · February 14th, 2008 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

That may be a sign of either overheating or insufficient voltage getting to the monitor..... But, you mentioned the video is integrated. So I'm leaning towards the power supply (PSU).

What's the watt output of your PSU and the brand?

Better yet list all the hardware you have in your pc to include the number of:
internal hard drives
optical drives
any unpowered external usb/firewire/sata devices
number of cooling fans (including cpu)

what do you mean by power supply? the AVR or the one inside the casing?

i have these in my PC

1 160GB hard drive
1 DVD-ROM
1 External DVD writer (connected through USB)
1 firewire card
1 cooling fan (yung nasa case ng CPU)
1 fan dun sa processor
1 1gb ram
2 sets of USB ports (4 ports sa likod, 2 sa harap)

thats it. wala masyadong nakakabit. basic lang naman.

**wildthing** · February 14th, 2008 02:31 PM

yung inside the casing ang ibig niyang sabihin na PSU.

wala bang waranty yan unit mo?

**Syuryuken** · February 14th, 2008 02:49 PM

tanggalin mo muna yung AVR mo. yung mga AVR na hindi branded hindi maganda yung sinusupply na kuryente minsan yun pa ang cause ng pagkasira ng PC.

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