Computer Freezes

How to Troubleshoot Computer Freezes

2012-11-05 06:18:11 / Posted by Jerry Cook to Computer Help
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One of the great frustrations with a computer is its proclivity for freezing or stalling unexpectedly. When the Computer freezes up now and again, you may lose a good deal of work. Even though this situation will be temporally changed if you restart your computer, conflicts in your system still will cause it to freeze up afterward without notice.

If you are encountering computer freezes after startup randomly, you need to find out a complete solution that can thoroughly fix it.

Here we should figure out the reason behind the computer freeze up. The following issues may be to blame:

Software Conflicts: If you recently install some software that is not compatible with system, Windows may crash and your computer may freeze.
Hardware Conflicts: Windows often freezes when the hard drive crashes or CPU overheats.
Problem with RAM: RAM memory stick can become overheated, especially on a laptop. This will cause laptop freezes.
Virus Infection: If a machine is terribly infected, it will certainly freeze and show other indications of serious problems.

Following you can find a step-by-step tutorial of how to use Fix Genius, an excellent strategy in case of emergency, to troubleshoot computer freezes. It can help you fix Windows 7 freezes, Windows 8 freezes, XP freezes, Vista freezes. It only takes you several minutes to finish the task.

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How to Fix Computer Freezes within 3 Steps?

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Step 1: Create a Boot CD

No matter you are able to boot your computer normally or not, you need to burn a start-up CD or USB. If your system randomly freezes and you can access to system, download, install and run Fix Genius on this computer, and insert the CD/USB to it. Then a user-friendly interface is shown as below. You just need to perform a click of your mouse on the "Burn" button (If you can't login into system, do this step on a workable computer instead).

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Step 2: Boot Freezing Computer from CD

If the optical drive is not first in the boot order, your PC will start "normally" (i.e. boot from your hard drive). Therefore, change the boot order in BIOS so CD is listed first. The computer will reboot and will attempt to access to CD.

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Step 3: Fix Freezing Computer

After a while, you will enter a Win PE environment. Launch this software. Go to "Windows Rescue"and select the appropriate solution you need. For each solution, you can get a complete solution for your computer freezes problem. Follow the methods listed under this solution and take measures to get your issues down.