My computer keaps freezing?!

My 6 year old computer that I hate keeps freeezing after a few minutes of use. It's a windows xp professional 32-bit. It started doing this a few days ago. When I turn it on, it restarts after maybe 10 minutes of use. I want to get a Mac but my Dad doesn't want to get a new computer because of the money, so i'm stuck with this. Any advice what the problem might be?

Tags: computer, freezing, ram, windows, xp

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Permalink Reply by Brian Buckley on July 1, 2009 at 7:44am: bad ram; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brian Buckley on July 1, 2009 at 7:44am: buy ur own computer; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mark Young on July 1, 2009 at 7:47am: When was the last time you did a scandisk and a defrag?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anubis on July 1, 2009 at 7:53am: Do a asys re-store take it back a week or two see if that solves ye issues.

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Permalink Reply by Dan on July 1, 2009 at 8:27am: It most likely picked up an internet disease, trojan or virus, but possibly hardware failure. I don't blame your Dad for not wanting a Mac, if everything is set up for what he does on a PC, like a lot of MS Word or other data based apps, it's a miserable job converting over to something on a whim that is nothing more then a 'fad' eye candy machine, the 'in' thing to play with these days.

If you want to scan for baddies that may be locking up your computer, use SUPERantispyware . But it might be a good idea to have your dad do this, since it is his computer.

It might also just need a good general cleanup. All the above may need to be done in the "safe mode" to keep from crashing.

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Permalink Reply by Ghassan Totah on July 1, 2009 at 8:49am: I have anti-virus software and I tried to restore it but it doesn't work. I can't buy one myself because I don't have enough money.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Nathanael on July 1, 2009 at 9:10am: save up?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mase hacker on July 1, 2009 at 11:53am: the easiest way is to just burn a ubuntu cd from another pc drop the live disk in and see how every works..
if it restarts or acts very slow and freezes up its most likely ram or cpu overtemped.. there is a possibility it could be a power supply overheating or video card.. the most likely is cpu or psu getting hot or flaking out. power supplies go out and get flaky all the time on older computers.. if everything in ubuntu runs fine and no problems at all ( try watching youtube videos this puts enough stress on cpu/video card to make it overheat if it is having that problem )but if everything is fine then its a software issue prob a trojen or some malware in the background just install AVG and malware bytes then go into safe mode and run them. if they freeze in safe mode when running then the virus has gone pretty far and just save ur stuff and reload the os.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Charan on July 3, 2009 at 12:53am: Format ur HDD and reinstall every thing . Back up ur HDD before formatting.; ▶ Reply to This