Problems with computer freezing.

[Luke122]

Lol

[Greco101]

most companies like hp and dell, have a partition made on the disk itself with all of the install software. you know when you get an "F12" option to enter the "setup utility" or something to that effect? that's what it is. Like a previous poster stated, use a ghosting program to ghost the exact image of the drive (OS partition and all) to a new hard drive.

I used Acronis' 15day trial to ghost my server hard drive to a faster drive.

worked flawlessly, and it is fully functional for 15 days. Also very self intuative.

-J

thank you VERY much. I was about to drop 80 bucks in a few hours for Norton Ghost.

Ya, my pc, to reformat, you hit f10.


Because of this, would I just ghost my HP_RECOVERY (D? It's about 4gigs
hopefully it can stay on long enough to finish

[Greco101]

took me a while to figure out... then I realized I forgot to move the jumper

After that everything went smoothly. Thanks for the tip on the trial program. Worked great.

I did get one error during the copy...

"Unable to read disk 1 sector 16513786"

I'd assume that's the part that died in the old HD but could this mess up anything since Apparently I didn't get that part of data. Everything seems to be running smoothly and faster.

[Greco101]

ihfsiouv less than an hour later.......

You guessed it...

Computer shut off. What could it possibly be???

[Greco101]

I was looking at the mb and next to the heatsink, a line of those cylinder deals had dried/burnt looking stuff on the tops of them.

Can some1 recommend me a mb that is compatible. I hate to bother any of you but just posting this with the ss and all took 2 tries.

[The Black Pumpkin]

That is NOT good!

[Greco101]

[Greco101]

finally... shut down 4 times before i could post the pictures. The computer is completely stock and no attempts to OC.

[Greco101]

My pc specs


Sorry about multiple posts guys, this pos just keeps shutting down on me and it gets really old typing everything thing out then it shutting down.

[The Black Pumpkin]

****!

Are the tops bulging? It looks like some are.

If they are, you have capacitor failure, and that is 90% likely to be causing your problem.

Are you good with a soldering gun/iron? If you are, you can replace them. If not, better plan for a new mobo.