PC freezes randomly solved

[SophistiFaebl]

Lately my pc has been freezing. It is an older pc, but I only use it as a school computer. So, the most I am using it for is Word, web browsing, and data storage. It will boot no problem, but after five to ten minutes of use, it freezes. Just flat out freezes. It doesn’t give me a blue screen and I don’t get a black screen, but my mouse and keyboard will not respond at all. I have tried unplugging and re-plugging in the mouse and keyboard to make sure it wasn’t that, and nothing. No change. Does anyone have a clue as to what the issue might be? 

[truecrafting]

Try Reformating it 

 

[SophistiFaebl]

1 minute ago, truecrafting said:

Try Reformating it 

 

Alright. Now, when you say reformat you mean to reformat the hard drive right?

[truecrafting]

18 hours ago, Eth.3nshelper said:

Alright. Now, when you say reformat you mean to reformat the hard drive right?

sorry for the very very very late response but yeah the one where you store you're os

[SophistiFaebl]

On 10/12/2018 at 5:36 AM, truecrafting said:

sorry for the very very very late response but yeah the one where you store you're os

Ok. I’ll try it and let you know what happens. 

[SophistiFaebl]

Just an update. I was finally able to do something with the stupid pc. I decided to see how it would act if the side cover was off. I started using it and after an hour and a half of use, it was running fine. Despite this advance in figuring out what is wrong with it, it is now running quite loud. I am not quite sure, most likely due to my lack of experience, but I believe the cpu cooler is throttling. Any thoughts?

[truecrafting]

14 hours ago, Eth.3nshelper said:

Just an update. I was finally able to do something with the stupid pc. I decided to see how it would act if the side cover was off. I started using it and after an hour and a half of use, it was running fine. Despite this advance in figuring out what is wrong with it, it is now running quite loud. I am not quite sure, most likely due to my lack of experience, but I believe the cpu cooler is throttling. Any thoughts?

what cpu and cpu cooler are you using

 

[SophistiFaebl]

On 10/19/2018 at 10:12 AM, truecrafting said:

what cpu and cpu cooler are you using

 

Amd Athlon II X2 250 with the stock cooler. 

[truecrafting]

7 hours ago, Eth.3nshelper said:

Amd Athlon II X2 250 with the stock cooler. 

try cleaning it and changing the thermal compound if it is still hot try looking for a replacement cpu cooler

[ZacoAttaco]

11 hours ago, Eth.3nshelper said:

Amd Athlon II X2 250 with the stock cooler. 

To be sure it's a thermal related issue, you can download a program like HWMonitor or RealTemp. They might give slightly different readings but you'll know if it's an issue. It might be useful to go into the BIOS and have a look at the fan settings. They should be on normal, but you might want to turn them on a turbo mode instead.

 

It also might be useful to make sure all your components are seated properly, just make sure all the cables, 8-pin CPU power connector, 24-pin motherboard power connector and any hard drive or GPU power connectors.