Computer hangs

Gardinen · Dec 18, 2003, 07:49 AM

My friends computer is being very wierd. He have had for about two years now and got it to a repair shop and they couldn't fix the problem.
It hangs in heavy applications. When playing games, it goes OK for 10 minutes, then it hangs. When trying again it goes for 7 minutes. And again it goes for 5 minutes, and so on.
Anyway it's a P4 2 Ghz processor....that's unfortunely all I now

The processor is 55 degres celsius AFTER some a couple of hours playing games. He couldn't get the fullload temp. Don't know the case temp. but that could be pretty high too.
He reported the core voltage to be 1.38, which I think sound very low. The only P4 2ghz processor I've found is at 1.475, 1.500 or 1.750 v.

My theory is that the processor gets to hot or get to little juice.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Dec 18, 2003, 08:27 AM

could be alot of things heat, power, windows/driver etc... the more info you can give us the better..

Gardinen · Dec 18, 2003, 08:40 AM

Well I haven't seen the computer in person, just be told that the computer does some pretty bad stuff.
It's been reinstalled, with latest drivers...latest with everything in software that is. Same problem.
I don't know anything more about the hardware. Could be a heat problem.....or not

Dec 18, 2003, 07:49 AM	#1
Gardinen DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Trollhättan, Sweden Posts: 512 Rep Power: 0	Computer hangs My friends computer is being very wierd. He have had for about two years now and got it to a repair shop and they couldn't fix the problem. It hangs in heavy applications. When playing games, it goes OK for 10 minutes, then it hangs. When trying again it goes for 7 minutes. And again it goes for 5 minutes, and so on. Anyway it's a P4 2 Ghz processor....that's unfortunely all I now The processor is 55 degres celsius AFTER some a couple of hours playing games. He couldn't get the fullload temp. Don't know the case temp. but that could be pretty high too. He reported the core voltage to be 1.38, which I think sound very low. The only P4 2ghz processor I've found is at 1.475, 1.500 or 1.750 v. My theory is that the processor gets to hot or get to little juice.

Dec 18, 2003, 08:27 AM	#2
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	could be alot of things heat, power, windows/driver etc... the more info you can give us the better.. __________________

Dec 18, 2003, 08:40 AM	Thread Starter #3
Gardinen DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Trollhättan, Sweden Posts: 512 Rep Power: 0	Well I haven't seen the computer in person, just be told that the computer does some pretty bad stuff. It's been reinstalled, with latest drivers...latest with everything in software that is. Same problem. I don't know anything more about the hardware. Could be a heat problem.....or not