It can be on for 4 hours, or 12. Usually, nothing is going on in the background -- I'll leave the computer idle for a few hours and come back and it'll be froze.
By froze, I mean the clock has stopped in Windows, mouse/keyword don't work, nothing is moving on the screen. You know, frozen.
I thought it could've been the memory, replaced that -- still broken.
Any help?
Are your fans are still functioning correctly? Could be the computer overheating?
I had a problem like that - and it was caused by memory running at the wrong speed (this was back in PC100/PC133 days though). Have you tried it with one stick of RAM?
Might also be worth checking you don't have any unwanted processes running, or checking things that run from startup (from Start->Run->msconfig->StartUp, rather than the Startup folder in the start menu)?
I just reinstalled a new operating system -- did a clean install to Windows Vista. So all old settings (viruses/trojans) etc are probably not the culprit.
Haven't tried just one stick of RAM.
It happened on XP for a long time. It's not the OS.
Power supply? Do you have a decent branded one? A solid 12V rail seems pretty important these days.
How about heat? Its not anti virus running, and overheating the CPU? I guess that would probably cause a shutdown/restart though?
>it'll be froze. [sic]
Yeah, check the power supply. Happened to me once; I swapped it out for something stronger, and was good to go after that.
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