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Last answer on Sep 20, 2009 2:15:23 pm BST Ozi, on May 2, 2009 5:29:48 am BST 
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Hello,
I built a custom comp about a year ago and for the first 6 months it worked great. then one day it just froze randomly not even during use it was just on the screensaver. I saw it was frozen and restarted it and then it got to the BIOS screen and froze there. so i tried restarting it again and it did the same thing several times over. after a couple times of restarting it, it loaded up normaly and went right into windows perfectly. After about an hour it froze again so i restart and same thing with the freezing at BIOS screen. Finally get it to load windows again and did a system restore. this work at first for about a day then started with the freezing again. So then I ask some friends that are pretty knowledgible with computers and problem shooting and they said try uninstalling the drivers, reseting the CMOS, then reinstall the drivers cause i might of got a bad install. so i tried it. still freezing. then they say try reinstalling windows. did that and got all the programs and drivers back on it and it seemed to beworking fine. then about another 6 months went by, just like when it started happening last time, then it started freezing again. i dont know what to do. none of my friends can figure it out, nor the repair shops. at first i thought it might be the hard drive but i didnt figure it would load windows all the way up sometimes if it was fried. No one on the internet seems to have the same problem of only freezing sometimes and it doesnt even have to be beeing used at the time. then after that freezing right when its booting up. or sometimes it gets a little further than that. maybe when its loading windows if im lucky. Any advice or help you guys could give me would be great and much appriciated cause its driving me crazy that im having this much trouble with a computer thats not very old and no one can seem to figure out the problem. thanks for reading and trying to help guys :)

Thanks, Ozi

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seachip, on May 2, 2009 9:22:30 am BST

Hi,
check your jumper positions on the motherboard.
this may be the cause.
check if you have the proper driver installed.
or it may be that the motherboard is faulty.

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Ozi, on May 7, 2009 8:24:33 pm BST

How do i check to see if the jumpers are in the right spot?
i looked up the drivers for the motherboard when i first built it cause for some reason when i used the disk to install the ethernet driver the computer would freeze in the middle of installation and then continue to do so at windowns start up screen. so i got the one from the internet and it seemed to fix the problem but all the other drivers i have are from the disk. i have the ASUS M3A motherboard. I thought the motherboard was bad too but when i took it into a shop they said they doubt the motherboard was bad cause ASUS makes good products and it rarely is bad but they never tested it cause they wouldnt do just the motherboard test they said they would have to do a full diagnostic and thats like 200$ so i said forget it.

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Dynik, on May 20, 2009 3:32:41 am BST
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I have the same exact problem.... :(

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ToXiC, on Jun 11, 2009 4:02:18 pm BST

Me too ;(

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illudin, on Aug 25, 2009 12:22:42 pm BST

Yea the same thing happens to me on my vostro 1500 looked through even veiwer all i could but could find nothing i'm guessing it has to be a hardware thing because it freezes during startup and i even updated bios and stuff

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Eric, on Sep 3, 2009 7:29:43 pm BST

Same issue here >.<

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Phil, on Sep 8, 2009 11:25:09 pm BST

Same here!! I have a Dell dimension 4600 and I used to be IT and cant figure this out!! I'm going to test my power supply to see if that may be the cause. My computer is virus free and i am on top of cleaning my system daily! Power supply is the only thing i can think of. Cause when I power down for lets say 4 hours it will take me 10 hard starts to get it going. Tearing this tower down for a major cleaning. Let you all know how it works!

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 aaron, on Sep 20, 2009 2:15:23 pm BST

Try unplugging your ethernet cable before you turn you pc, and wait untill all applications are loaded, and then plug your ethernet cable in :) works for me :D

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