PC freezing

[mayankkhare]

Hello all members ,

My PC is freezing randomly , sometimes while gaming , sometimes when pc id idle or I m browsing web.

It is just Random

My PC spece are -

AMD Athlon II x2 255 3.10ghz

AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB GDDR5

Gigabyte Ga-m68mt-s20 (revision 3.0 ) MoBo

2GB DDR3 RAM

I-ball 450w PSU with 16amps at +12V rail

A 500gb 7200rpm HDD

A 500gb 5400rpm Laptop HDD

I m unable to use my PC bycoz of this freezing

And when it freezes only option is to restart PC .

Help please!

[Alandesu]

You might need more ram, your ram probably fills up too fast for it to be converted to page file etc. See if your pc reverts to normal function after it freezes, just wait a little longer.

[Whiskers]

What OS do you have, Windows 7?

[GHxC]

It's the ram. I wouldn't recommend anything lower than 4 gigs, considering how most games nowadays just use 2 gigs by themselves. Consider getting another 2 gig stick.

[Whiskers]

It's the ram. I wouldn't recommend anything lower than 4 gigs, considering how most games nowadays just use 2 gigs by themselves. Consider getting another 2 gig stick.

Agreed.

Even 4GB of RAM can be a little limiting these days for gaming, 2GB is limiting for essentially anything unless you're running Windows XP or a decent Linux distro.

[mayankkhare]

Yes I m using Windows 7 64-bit as of now

But I had earlier tried win 8 and this freezing problem is thr

[mayankkhare]

You might need more ram, your ram probably fills up too fast for it to be converted to page file etc. See if your pc reverts to normal function after it freezes, just wait a little longer.

Ok I will wait for 20min now

And my pc freezes even when copying something to usb or copying to computer

Ram usage is about 800-900 when copying files but it still freezed.

[mayankkhare]

What OS do you have, Windows 7?

Yes win 7 64-bit

And I hav installed fresh copy of it just 2 days ago

[mayankkhare]

Tried windows 7 and windows 8 and problem exists in both.

[mayankkhare]

You might need more ram, your ram probably fills up too fast for it to be converted to page file etc. See if your pc reverts to normal function after it freezes, just wait a little longer.

So , Do I need to change something at page file

As I'm using 7200rpm desktop drive as my OS drive and games(bcoz its faster) and 5400rpm for songs and movies.

Should I set my page file location to the 5400rpm drive?

And what size I require for page file for 2gb Ram

[mayankkhare]

Can anybody tell me does the +12V with 16Amps is enough powerful for my PC needs ? 

[Whiskers]

Yes win 7 64-bit

And I hav installed fresh copy of it just 2 days ago

That may be your problem.

64-bit Operating Systems should only be used on computers with more than 4GB of RAM. If you only have 2GB then your computer will only have around 1GB of that available for programs to use, as the OS and the page file will easily eat up the other half.

Try using a 32-bit OS instead, and if that's not possible you should really get more RAM. 2GB is really, really small these days.

[mayankkhare]

That may be your problem.

64-bit Operating Systems should only be used on computers with more than 4GB of RAM. If you only have 2GB then your computer will only have around 1GB of that available for programs to use, as the OS and the page file will easily eat up the other half.

Try using a 32-bit OS instead, and if that's not possible you should really get more RAM. 2GB is really, really small these days.

Yes u r right 

but i m using this PC from june 2013 when i got my GPU, before having GPU and after having GPU i dint face any problem with win 7 64-bit (and yeah 2 GB RAM)

i also noticed tht this freeze come up in when i used the Laptop HDD thts 500GB 5400RPM.

but even after removing tht HDD the conclusion is same !

[Alandesu]

As you have more files in your hard drive, the slower the hard drive gets, this is because it needs to search for free sectors which takes longer with a clogged hard drive.

 

See if you can change your page file to 8gb, go to System and Security, System, Advanced system settings, Advanced tab, and change virtual memory to 8192

[mayankkhare]

As you have more files in your hard drive, the slower the hard drive gets, this is because it needs to search for free sectors which takes longer with a clogged hard drive.

See if you can change your page file to 8gb, go to System and Security, System, Advanced system settings, Advanced tab, and change virtual memory to 8192

I hav changed by C drive page file to system manage and on my second hdd I hav made a 2000-4000mb page file

[mayankkhare]

But before I use PC thr was a powerut in my area.
And I want to know if thr is impact of power cut on pc components?

Any help will be highly appriciated 

[mayankkhare]

So i thought to see how PC works when i remove my GPU . So i removed HD 7750 and now PC is working ok'ish

it is freezing but now thr is nothing shown up on monitor it freezes on a frame and then goes black screen

unllike the freeze when GPU was plugged in .

in the case when GPU was in the freeze was always showing the frame at which it freezed .

[mayankkhare]

one more thing i would like to say tht my MoBo chipset is nVidia so the internal GPU is Geforce 7025/630a and networking is also nVidia nForce 10/100/1000 MBPS

i want to know if there is problem having both Nvidia and AMD Graphics drivers instaleed ?

i just uninstalled the amd gpu drivers to see if there will be no freeze .

[mayankkhare]

PC still freezing on using iGPU

But thr is difference

Can anybody tell me how to post pics here?

[Paralectic]

The RAM is most likely the bottleneck in your system, get a nice 8GB kit and you'll be ready to rock!

[mayankkhare]

But dufe I was using pc with this ram from 7-8 months

It was ok but now it freezes

And how sure u can say tht if I increase ram my pc will be good?

[mayankkhare]

I would like to upload the photos of the error i m getting

So how i can upload it here ?