Asked By Maeve
19-Nov-09 03:42 PM
Hi,
Have had this problem for a long time (6 months). My PC freezes
intermittently and I have to restart manually sometimes this is once, other
times it might happen 5 times a day. It occurs randomly, not always when I
am using the PC. I could be away from the computer and check and it could
be frozen.
Acer told me it was a memory problem and they fixed it (supposedly) but it
still freezes intermittently. Then the image of the OS was corrupt so they
had to reinstall from their disc.
It seemed better in winter, so I thought it might be the fan, but it seems
sometimes to do it only minutes after turning PC on. I have cleaned inside
by blowing compressed air and removing dust, did not fix the problem. Have
upgraded to windows 7 from Vista (OEM) which was already installed by Acer,
along with a lot of other programs that I did not want. I have deleted
these!
If all fails I will reinstall windows 7 on a new HHD and not install Vista
as it is probable that it is corrupted. I have all my stuff on 2 external
drives which means I will not lose any data but I would hate to do all that
only to find it was a problem with my PC and it was unnecessary. I do not
want to spend a lot as I will probably get a new PC in a couple of years.
Here is the PC information:
Acer T690, Intel core 2 Duo, 2.2 GHz, 2GB RAM, 32-bit OS
Is there anything else I can check?