Computer Freeze

[Tlechem]

What exactly is happening when a computer freezes. I Googled it and could only find solutions on how to fix it, which I don't really care about. I just want to know why in a hardware or software sense.

Thanks

 

[arges86]

did you read this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_%28computing%29

its a bit wordy, but you can get the gist of it.

 

[Tlechem]

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