Hey guys

My computer is freezing at the moment.  Its a PC that I purchased nearly 2 years ago.  If has an FX6300 with a GT730 card and about 4GB of ram.

It was running fine all this time.  About 2 months ago I moved the PC as the fan area was towards the back of the computer desk - so I thought it would be best to face this towards the open area of my desk.  Opened it up to give it a bit of a blow to clear any dust.

Then in the last week or so its started freezing.  Its frozen once its logged on, when I am surfing the net and when I am in game (so if I leave mid sentence you will know what it is).  The hard drive hasn't been making any suspect sounds that would lead me to believe it was in the throes of dying.  I ran a disk check which came back with no errors and then did a defrag even though it analysed at about 3%. 

The PC has a stock standard HD that has 100GB used and 800GB left.  I use this computer for COD4, Skype, and browing non-dodgy news sites and public transport timetables.  I have a laptop for all the other dodgy stuff lol.

I have checked the logs but cant see anything at the time of crash that indicates why its freezing (probably not likely to as when it freezes it wont update the log - I froze because....).

I know we have some super whizzes in the clan, and was hoping that someone might shed some light on how I can diagnose whats going on with it.  I certainly don't want the HD to die on me, and will look to copy over the personal data I have (main things are the skye chats I have had with my children (which I use a program called Evaer to copy).

Any help would be appreciated.  Id love to make it another couple of months (bonus time) before I have to look at getting a proper service or an upgrade.

Thanks

Give a run through this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2681286

you might check the BIOS and see if the processor is heating up, maybe bad heatsink connection, if you turn it on and do nothing with it but check to see if it still alive does it still happen, might also just do some plan ole house keeping and use a can of air and blow off everything. a coating of dust on everything does not help

Doesn't look good.  This morning it crashed a couple of times and then couldn't do startup repair as it couldn't find the right keyboard :o will put the win7 disk in this evening and try my luck again.

ermagherd.......startup repair didn't work and now its started pixelating on the startup screen where it shows bios options.  And to top it all off lol I cant find my damn windows 7 installation disc lol.

Going to have to borrow one, try repair from installation disc and if that fails I will have to try to save my data and then take it to some real geeks to fix :(

Going to be offline for a little while