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> Computer freezes when watching videos
motox822
post Jul 26 2009, 07:27 PM
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Hi, I have been experiencing problems with my computer lately that makes it hard to use. Whenever I'm using my computer, it will just randomly freeze up. Doing some things make it freeze up faster such as watching videos or playing games. When watching videos on youtube or using a program on my computer such as media player, the computer will freeze anytime from 10 sec to a minute. It seems that no matter what im doing, then the computer will eventually freeze up. Most of the time, the program running will freeze and I cannot use ctrl-alt-delete to end it, but the task bar will still appear to work usually until I click something on it. Most of the time my computer will just freeze up completely and will be silent but sometimes a long continuous beep will come from inside of the machine. Either way, I am forced to hold down the power button until it shuts off and then I will just restart it. This has never happend before and I dont know what to do. PLEASE HELP!!


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- motox822   Computer freezes when watching videos   Jul 26 2009, 07:27 PM
- - jephree   The first thing that comes to mind is heat. How o...   Jul 26 2009, 08:14 PM
- - motox822   I cleaned out my computer last week without any lu...   Jul 27 2009, 01:50 PM
- - jephree   Thanks for the info. Freezing, in general, is a ha...   Jul 27 2009, 05:56 PM
- - motox822   Thanks for the reply 1. I am not familiar with th...   Jul 27 2009, 07:39 PM
- - jephree   If you again freeze up you might check your diagno...   Jul 27 2009, 08:08 PM
- - motox822   When I try to download Dell Diagnostics with the l...   Jul 27 2009, 09:29 PM
- - jephree   http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...p;fil...   Jul 27 2009, 09:43 PM
- - motox822   Alright I'm having some trouble finding out ho...   Jul 27 2009, 10:01 PM
- - jephree   What browser are you using? Do you know how to cl...   Jul 27 2009, 10:08 PM
- - motox822   I am using Firefox 3.0.12 I do know how to clear ...   Jul 27 2009, 10:14 PM
- - jephree   Have you tried clearing and then retry the downloa...   Jul 27 2009, 10:16 PM
- - motox822   Yeah, sorry I didn't think of that (see last p...   Jul 27 2009, 10:17 PM
- - motox822   Okay I extracted all the files. Now what do i do?   Jul 27 2009, 10:20 PM
- - jephree   The program should be on your Start Menu. Double ...   Jul 27 2009, 10:28 PM
- - motox822   I'm not really sure what is wrong, but the dia...   Jul 28 2009, 12:06 AM
- - Doug   While waiting for Jephree to continue with his exc...   Jul 28 2009, 12:30 AM
- - motox822   Everything looked good and speed fan could only gi...   Jul 28 2009, 01:40 PM
- - jephree   How is the computer working presently? Do you stil...   Jul 28 2009, 05:30 PM
- - motox822   The computer is still acting up.. I can trigger a ...   Jul 28 2009, 08:07 PM
- - motox822   This Diagnostics thing looks to be extremely compl...   Jul 28 2009, 08:47 PM
- - jephree   This tool along with most diagnostic and or restor...   Jul 28 2009, 09:23 PM
- - jephree   It also just occurred to me you might try to reins...   Jul 28 2009, 09:40 PM
- - motox822   1. Okay first things first, how do I "Set you...   Jul 29 2009, 12:19 AM
- - Doug   have a look in your Device manager (R-click - My C...   Jul 29 2009, 12:43 AM
- - motox822   Okay I updated my video drivers and ran the diagno...   Jul 29 2009, 03:06 PM
- - motox822   Hi again. I forgot to mention in my first post th...   Jul 29 2009, 04:46 PM
- - Doug   Were you able to successfully run the Windows Memo...   Jul 29 2009, 05:28 PM
- - jephree   Along with Doug's ideas I would ask a few more...   Jul 29 2009, 06:10 PM
- - motox822   Jephree: I will try both of those and post what I ...   Jul 29 2009, 08:52 PM
- - Doug   Both of those "errors" are trivial and w...   Jul 30 2009, 01:18 PM
- - motox822   Okay.. I finally got around to doing those things....   Aug 1 2009, 01:16 AM
- - jephree   My diagnosis is a bad graphics card. Unfortunatel...   Aug 1 2009, 07:47 PM
- - motox822   Okay that's was I was thinking too from some s...   Aug 1 2009, 10:35 PM

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