Hey guys, It's been a long time since I posted anything on these forums. Mostly because my computer actually started working and I had no need to make these kind of threads...but I guess I ran out of luck.
Basically the problem I am having is this:
When I am doing anything on my computer, whether it be browsing on firefox, talking with people in ventrilo, playing CSS, playing L4D, or even just on my desktop, my computer completely locks up and I can no longer click on or type anything. When my computer is locked up, I am still able to move my mouse cursor, which has turned into the sand timer that pops up when stuff loads, but I am unable to click, select, of highlight anything. Basically all of my computers functions are disabled while my computer is locked up.
This problem is obviously very annoying, especially when I am playing games (It happens more in Left 4 Dead than CSS) I will be running the game fine, no ping spikes or fps problems, when all of a sudden i will freeze in place, the sound will loop what I just heard OVER and OVER again for about 20-30 seconds. Then it stops and everything is back to normal, and I continue playing until it happens again.
I'll give an overview of recent things I've done to my computer to help anyone in the diagnosis of my problem.
-I recently reformatted using a pirated copy of Windows XP
. I lost the CD of the legit copy I bought at MB.
-My computer chair bumped into my tower while it was running and completely just locked the whole computer up. It must have been a pretty hard bump because when I tried to restart my computer, nothing would happen after the BIOS screen...it would just stay a black screen
-SO, I looked inside my computer, made sure no wires got disconnected, or that nothing was dislodged or out of place. I ended up cleaning off all the dust and took my processor out, dusted it off, and put it back into it's place.
-Once I put the processor back in. My computer booted up fine. Although it seemed that after this incident that I started experiencing the problem.
Anyway, sorry for the ESSAY, but I wanted to make sure I explained everything so you guys can try to help me get to the bottom of the problem. Thanks in advance!
P.S. Here are some of the things I think might be causing the problem.
1. When I put my processor back in, and put the heat sync back on, I may have created "air bubbles" in the thermal paste.
2. I may have damaged my RAM when I bumped my computer. (I turned around in my chair and my arm rest thing slammed into the side of my computer...just fyi
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