computer freezing - strange display/noise

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by m-sama, Apr 26, 2008.

  1. m-sama

    m-sama Private E-2

    I've had my computer for about...2-3 years now, but only recently in the past few months it has been doing this.

    Sometimes my computer will freeze without much warning, and it becomes totally unresponsive. Every thing on the screen looks just slightly blurry and gets this faint yellow/blue outline. Sometimes, it will also make a awful screech/beeps and I have to do a hard reset.

    I have done scans recently and found nothing, and at first I thought it came from running heavy programs (Norton, Photoshop), but then it will do this when I'm doing something as simple as watching videos on Youtube! :(

    I can't really show this to someone, because it happens randomly, and I can't take a screencap because the computer does not respond at all when it happens!

    Specs:
    Compaq Presario V5000
    AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-32
    version x86 Family 15 Model 36 Stepping 2
    current speed 1790 MHz cache size 512 KB
    Installed memory 2.00 GB, max 4 GB
    total capacity (hard drive): 74.51 GB
    used: 35.11 GB
    free: 39.40 GB
    Windows XP Home Service Pack 2

    Thanks so much!
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

  3. m-sama

    m-sama Private E-2

    It's going between 135-140 Farenheit. I've had to replace the fan in my laptop before :mad

    Either way I will give a good cleaning with the compressed air can :D
     

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