Freezing PC

carlos5carlos5
edited November 2007 in Nerdery
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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