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Robert Kami
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So I got a friends PC at home and the problem he came with was a Windows Freze after 10 min the PC was turned on. We reinstalled the windows thinking that it might solve the issue. Did not happend. Issue still persists.

 

Will install another version of windows and check how it works. Curent version is XP Profesional Service Pack 3.

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General advise, do no longer use Windows xp

windows xp is fine one of the best windows's ever

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So I got a friends PC at home and the problem he came with was a Windows Freze after 10 min the PC was turned on. We reinstalled the windows thinking that it might solve the issue. Did not happend. Issue still persists.

 

Will install another version of windows and check how it works. Curent version is XP Profesional Service Pack 3.

as for the issue try downloading the free version of hdtune here: http://www.hdtune.com/download.html and see if your hard drive is okay. please let me know.

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OLD = DUST?

 

If its an old as hell machine, no doubt you'd have old as hell dust buildup causing heating/restarts.

 

Clean inside of PC with paintbrush and compressed air can.

CLEAN FIRST THEN do Hardware Diagnostics.

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try running something like a bootable linux usb drive (or dvd if the pc is not capable of booting of a usb). If it does not crash any more, it is a software or hdd issue, if it still crashes you probably have a faulty psu, cpu, ram (ram is a good bet), or gpu, if there is one installed. Also try locating chras logs in windows that might help as well, if you have kernel errors it again is probably the operating systems fault.

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General advise, do no longer use Windows xp

Will try installing windows7 but it ain´t a very performant machine tho.

as for the issue try downloading the free version of hdtune here: http://www.hdtune.com/download.html and see if your hard drive is okay. please let me know.

Thankz you!

OLD = DUST?

 

If its an old as hell machine, no doubt you'd have old as hell dust buildup causing heating/restarts.

 

Clean inside of PC with paintbrush and compressed air can.

CLEAN FIRST THEN do Hardware Diagnostics.

Nah. It´s pretty clean. He´s kinda neat.

try running something like a bootable linux usb drive (or dvd if the pc is not capable of booting of a usb). If it does not crash any more, it is a software or hdd issue, if it still crashes you probably have a faulty psu, cpu, ram (ram is a good bet), or gpu, if there is one installed. Also try locating chras logs in windows that might help as well, if you have kernel errors it again is probably the operating systems fault.

Will try to boot up Win7 and if not will try Ubuntu.

 

Comming back when I try everything up.

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