Why is my computer freezing/bluescreening?

Question

Over the past year my computer that i got only two years ago has been freezing/bluescreeing about once a week. It then became about once a day and i took it to the repair shop where i was told it was the OS and had that replaced. Upon getting it back 2 weeks ago it no longer froze once a day, but two sometimes now. It does one of three things:

Simply freezes.

Makes a high pitched squeaking noise and has yellow/red/green lines running down the frozen screen.

Gives me a bluescreen with various error codes influding but not limited to "no reference by pointer" and "driver irql not less or equal"

Im pretty much tired of it doing this and am about to just buy a new computer. However i thought id ask around a bit first.

Answer 1

I just saw your question on my way out and can't go into details right now, but you most probably have a failing video card or worst case if you have built into your motherboard. First try updating your video driver through your device manager. There you will find out if video is built in or add-on card. Open the properties for that component and select drivers and update. If your video driver is corrupted that will solve your problem for free. If not, that tone your hearing is a beep code usually heard at start up from the motherboard telling you something is wrong with a piece of hardware. I have only encountered a constant tone like you describe long after boot-up coming from the video card. 75% of those were bad cards and 25% were just corrupted drivers. Good luck!

Edit: You do have the same kind of problems with a failing hard drive except I have never heard a beep code when a hard drive goes . Look at the bright side, a video card or a hard drive is cheap to replace compared to a system.

Answer 2

Here are the steps outlined to stop your computer from freezing:



A) Disable Unused Ports:



Disable unused ports of your computer. If you don't have input devices that are connected to one of your USBs or COM ports, disabling them will give you an extra performance boost in booting.



1. Click Start | Control Panel.

2. Click System and Security.

3. Click "Device Manager" in the "System" category.

4. Right click an unused port, and select "Disable" option. Confirm the change.







B) Reduce the Number of Background Services:



Verify only required & essential services are running when your computer is turned on. For example, only services from Microsoft and your antivirus software are running. To do so, download Reginout Services Optimizer, click the button "Optimize Services".







C) Enable Advanced Write Caching Feature:



Make Advanced Write Caching features enabled as shown here:



1. Open Device Manager as shown in the above procedure.



2. Expand your the "Disk Drives" option.



3. Right click your hard disk, and select Properties.



4. In the new dialog, mark the following check boxes as checked:



a. Enable write caching on the disk

b. Enable advanced performance



5. Click OK.







D) Disable Indexing the Files on your Hard Disk:



Turn off indexing the files as outlined below:



1. Open My Computer, right click a disk drive, and select Properties option.

2. In the General tab, mark the box "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed.." as unchecked.

3. Click Apply | OK.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

if the OS was already fixed then it means the hard drive is going out it is your best bet to buy another computer from a good brand IE Dell, HP.