Computer freezes and requires hard restart

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Metawhore

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I manually selected drivers for the ATA and the HDD on the device manager to the 'standard drivers' instead of the nForce 430. Upon restarting it attempted to reinstall HDD software and froze, after that I restarted again and it installed ok, still haven't crashed since.
 

RussK1

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Pretty straight forward... older computer and these things happen and what can we do?

You have a few options - new memory, new board or a new computer. I personally would start with replacing memory as it's both cheaper and easier to do.

Microcenter has DDR2 for pretty cheap http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0370652

or you can probably find some on your local Craigslist. or Newegg - http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600006098%20600006061&IsNodeId=1&name=2GB&Order=PRICE&Pagesize=20
 

Metawhore

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Well what I wanna do here is not exactly fix the problem but zero down on the problem. Cause I already payed for a new graphics card and PSU and I'm not exactly able to pay for more. I also have another stick of memory that I put in for testing purposes and it still crashed. So... now I'm in between motherboard and HDD or just some driver conflict
 

RussK1

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Pretty easy to narrow down to drivers... enter safe mode w/ networking and go about your business... if no crashing then it's drivers.

Make a back up of all your important data and re-install Windows. In fact back up anyway... Or go into device manager and manually uninstall ALL drivers and run driver sweeper~

http://phyxion.net/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper/Version-3-2-0/Installer.html

...and remove everything.


HP's site for drivers~

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?swlinkmsg=100&cc=us&dlc=en&docname=bph07165&lang=en&lc=en&product=3867474&task=

I hear ya on the GPU and PSU.

Good luck.
 

JkJk_28

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Hi ppl.

My PC reacts the same way as yours. In Linux, to solve that, i add "acpi=off" to the BOOT line on grub2. On win7, i think that you need to go to Control Panel/Device Manager, and desactivate or remove the ACPI functions on Computer. It would solve your problem and that "acpi sensors" will be managed by the BIOS without conflict
 

chavez1

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Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Randomly Freezes
No BSOD just random freezes with screen on and no keys or cursor repsond, all I can do is use a hard reset to restart. Then I get the standard windows was not shut down properly messege at start-up. I have been having this issue/s and have tried all the same standard help people have had to offer, in all the dfferent post I've read online.
To actually fix this issue I ended up having to go to the device manager and check for driver updates on all my devices, one at a time. I think the ones that had updates that fixed this issue were the ACPIx64-based PC under the computer drop down and the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers especially the ICH ATA and SATA AHCI ontrollers (I think these made the difference). I checked them all, but these were the only ones that had updates. Once those were updated and the computer was restarted, it has stayed on. It's been on for a day now and no problems so far.