Computer Experts Ideas Needed

[jeff of pa]

Computer Problems This Morning

Arrow Disappearing,
Locking.

Email Download Locking
Email Tune sounding like a stuck record. when it locks

Everything Locking for 5 to 10 seconds every minute or so

Including Spybot, Delete Browsing Histoty,
Surfing Pottsville Republian news paper site, TreasureNet, Etc.

Any Ideas ?

 

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[pat-tekker-cat]

Been on Google Earth?
It does weird things to my computer, causes them locks, basically shuts it down, when I exit. Just a thought.
Good luck!

 

[spartacus53]

Wait for The beep goes on to show up. I know he is good with this.. Sounds like a virus, and I have been having some issues similar to yours that started yesterday

 

[The Beep Goes On]

Could be a few things. Have you tried rebooting? And, does the problem remain? It sounds like a process is running in the background taking up all the CPU cycles. If you right-click on the taskbar and start Task Manager and go to Processes and click the top of the CPU column it will order the processes by utilization...which process is utilizing the CPU when this happens?

It could also be a drive problem where there are errors and Windows is trying to fix them in the background. I lost a drive and it exhibited similar behavior before it crashed. Do some drive maintenance, perhaps. Registry, Cleanup, Defragment, etc. Might make a backup first.

 

[spartacus53]

Jeff, I swear Beep is not only a computer Wiz, but methinks he has ESP too... Scarey

 

[The Beep Goes On]

Lol...you never know...

 

[Kentucky Kache]

My old computer started freezing up, but it would stay frozen. I had to shut down, unplug my modem, reboot and then replug modem. That would fix it for a little while. The main fix was a new computer.

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

My old computer started freezing up, but it would stay frozen. I had to shut down, unplug my modem, reboot and then replug modem. That would fix it for a little while. The main fix was a new computer.

Ditto KK. I still got the old one, it will run for about 3 hours, till it heats up, with all the above mentioned symptoms. Just keeping it, for when I wanna bother to download everthing in it. No biggie really.

I woulda gave advice like beep, but, that would just have looked stupid, a cat giving computer advice!
Plus, I figured, he woulda done all that, too.
Good luck Jeff!

 

[spartacus53]

I woulda gave advice like beep, but, that would just have looked stupid, a cat giving computer advice!
Plus, I figured, he woulda done all that, too.

Just imagine someone having to accept technical advise from me I think most would swear after following my advise, their computers will just explode.

 

[Smee]

Ditto KK. I still got the old one, it will run for about 3 hours, till it heats up, with all the above mentioned symptoms. Just keeping it, for when I wanna bother to download everthing in it. No biggie really.

I woulda gave advice like beep, but, that would just have looked stupid, a cat giving computer advice!
Plus, I figured, he woulda done all that, too.
Good luck Jeff!

Sounds like you may need a can of air . . . when is the last time you blew the dust off of your CPU heatsink and fan?

Special note to smokers: The oils in the tobacco smoke will be pulled into your computer and adhere to your CPU's heatsink and fan, causing it to lose its effectiveness for "cooling" and cause the system to get hotter . . . faster.

 

[The Beep Goes On]

Usually, depending on the system board and BIOS, the computer will shut itself down if the CPU gets too hot. It's happened to me more than once. It never gave me jumpy performance before shutting down, but is entirely possible. There's a Vista/Win7 Gadget called All CPU Meter and, if used with Core Temp, can let you keep tabs on CPU temperatures. Intel has some cool utilities for some of their processors that include diagnostics and temp monitoring.

Jeff, if this is still occurring, what are you running?

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http://alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

 

[warsawdaddy]

Hot is the key word-
Also if you have 'tea timer' running in spybot it may do it depending how old your computer is.You would have to cancel tea timer out.

 

[FarmerChick]

get a clean up at your local store

my puter just would boot me off the internet constantly last 2 weeks or so..drove me nuts.
my bro is a VP at a computer co. in NJ
I mailed it to him, he said my firewall/security was trying to update/download and not getting that accmoplished so it booted me off....he is mailing back yesterday to me all brand new and spanky clean......if you have freeze problems etc it is software screwing you up. take to computer store for clean up and all should work fine

good luck

 

[spartacus53]

See FarmerChick, contrary to popular beliefs, NJ does have some good eggs

Self, not included

 

[Kentucky Kache]

See FarmerChick, contrary to popular beliefs, NJ does have some good eggs

Self, not included

Yeah, but they have to move there from NC. lol
Just kidding. I have a good friend in NJ.

 

[FarmerChick]

LOL I love Jersey
grew up there and bro still lives there
nothing wrong with Jersey!!

 

[spartacus53]

Except me, that is

 

[jeff of pa]

Shut it down This Morning after Running Everything
& It still said windows is Shutting down
10 Minutes later when I Left.

It did finally shut down,
As it was off when I Just came Home.

seems OK Now

"Fingers crossed"

Even EMail Downloaded.

Thanks all If it starts again

I'll re_view The Above advice

Jeff

 

[Daedalus]

Jeff make sure that it is not over heating , have you blown out the Processor heat sink and fan ?
This will cause this that you are seeing as it clocks down to cool off, It may be a virus but be sure to check the inside to make sure it is clean .

 

[jeff of pa]

Jeff make sure that it is not over heating , have you blown out the Processor heat sink and fan ?
This will cause this that you are seeing as it clocks down to cool off, It may be a virus but be sure to check the inside to make sure it is clean .

I'm out of air till I can get to the store.

Fan was definately running Earlier
As I heard something running.

sometimes it gets loud