Windows Vista Vista freezing but not my mouse...

Well I thought my PC problems were solved with this thread.
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?p=375744#post375744

To sum it up, I had a blue screen error so I had to remove my RAM.
Then I had a bad system files and had to use the repair disk for windows vista.

It was working well for about 1 hour then I started to get random freezes. Say I open Itunes to play music (just an examples does it with all programs), after about 1 song the PC will freeze and I will be forced to reboot or sometimes after abut a miniature it fixes it self until the next jam. I noticed that when the freezing occurs that my hard drive light it goes on solid, and my mouse still works. I can click the start button but once it opens, it just freezes there. CLT ALT DEL just takes everything to a black screen with a white cursor. (Like it was trying to load the options)

I made the PC back in February 07.

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.4GHz

Memory: 2046MB RAM (2GB)

Hard Drive: 320 GB

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

Monitor: ViewSonic VA903 Series

Sound Card: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)

Keyboard: USB Root Hub

Mouse: USB Root Hub

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)

Power Supply: 600 Watt

I ran this http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp to see if my RAM is bad again but its ok according to that.


It’s hard to back stuff up because if I try to burn it to a disk, it freezes mid-point and I have to restart. I would post a dump log but I’m not getting any formal errors.

Is it the hard drive lagging or something because the HDD light goes solid? I did a defrag last night.

If it’s the HDD, why does the mouse not freeze?

Is it Windows Vista and do I need to use the repair disk even though I’m not getting any corrupt file info?

Motherboard failing???

Is there any programs you want me to run to test the HDD? I think there is something like chkdsk? How do I run that in vista? With Start button + R?

Thanks for reading.

P.S I REALLY don’t want to reformat…

EDIT: i posed this as i was running the program to test the ram. The program (in its advanced test) began to lag on test 7

 

PeteC i will run the hard drive test for my Seagate 320.

I will do the RAM right after.

 

http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=SeaTool&message.id=19

That guy has the same problem as me that the tools wont work. Are there any others?

 

Hi,

Does the Seagate Tools have an option to build a boot CD? (I take it you are running it in Windows.)

You can run chkdsk by going to Computer and right-clicking on the drive -> Properties, select the Tools tab and run Error Checking. Put a check in both the boxes for "Automatically..." and "Check for errors... ". Go back and run it for any other drives/partitions.
It will need to do a restart for the Windows partition. It may take some time depending on the amount of data, etc.

Matt