Freezing PC

carlos5carlos5
edited November 2007 in Science & Tech
Hi All
Soltek MBO, 256MB SDRAM, 13.5GB HD, 500MHz CPU, OS WINXP Pro SP2.

PC behaving queerily when pc boots up to Windows and left unattended for more than 1 minute, the PC freezes . Ctl-Alt-Del not working, HDD spinning and cpu fan working under this condition. After switching off and rebooting, I found out that by running WMP10,PC will work normally.Any ideas anyone please.

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  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2007
    Open up your case and look at the electrolytic capacitors on your motherboard; they are the cylindrical-shaped components with shiny silver tops. If any of the tops are swollen or leaking you will need to buy a new computer.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • KentigernKentigern Milton Keynes UK
    edited November 2007
    Does it do the same in safe mode - if not, could be that wmp has changed your video/graphic settings.
  • carlos5carlos5
    edited November 2007
    drasnor wrote:
    Open up your case and look at the electrolytic capacitors on your motherboard; they are the cylindrical-shaped components with shiny silver tops. If any of the tops are swollen or leaking you will need to buy a new computer.

    -drasnor :fold:

    Tks all. Fault traced to faulty MBO.
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