Fixing a PC. Level: NIGHTMARE

[Jingle]

I was getting the blue screen of death every five minutes a few days ago; I was close to throwing the PC out of the window because it always froze and gave me that huge error, it then repeated about six times after restarting. I could then use it for a maximum of two hours before the shit happened again. Yesterday, I went to a factory where a relative of mine works in and used compressed air to get every last bit of dust out of my PC. I haven't had any issue with my PC so far. This isn't a myth and you should try it; if you don't have compressed air, you could use some sort of vacuum cleaner.

[Salmonella]

be carefull with compressed air. It might be good but not if you blow ON the motherboard, do it sideways instead.. Otherwise the dust will stick to the mobo or worse..

[9r2e5i3k]

@Jingle
The PC is rather clean of dust. The PC does not hang up regularly, eg. after 2 hours. It can run for a week without hanging up, while one day it's gonna hang up every 5 minutes.

I'm getting closer to the belief that there are gnomes living in my PC that are just plain trolling me...

[9r2e5i3k]

bumping old topic, problem still persists and is shagging all of my nerves

[Julio.]

I think your assessment may be right, you have trolling gnomes, or perhaps your PC is a troll.

[Aldo]

I'm sorry but your PC is a hunk of shit

Save up some cash and build a new one

[9r2e5i3k]

Save up some cash and build a new one

>implying that's not the plan

but i still want to get this pile of electrical crap working

[duffman]

Wait.. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WITH MY HD MAN

[Antonio.]

I was getting the blue screen of death every five minutes a few days ago; I was close to throwing the PC out of the window because it always froze and gave me that huge error, it then repeated about six times after restarting. I could then use it for a maximum of two hours before the shit happened again. Yesterday, I went to a factory where a relative of mine works in and used compressed air to get every last bit of dust out of my PC. I haven't had any issue with my PC so far. This isn't a myth and you should try it; if you don't have compressed air, you could use some sort of vacuum cleaner.

When I had my other computer a few years ago, this helped fixing my computer every time. Using some after shave and some paper towels did the job.

[Squeak]

When I had my other computer a few years ago, this helped fixing my computer every time. Using some after shave and some paper towels did the job.

You put aftershave on your computer?

[Rick.]

You put aftershave on your computer?

 

[Jcstodds]

  Could be a possible RAM problem. Dunno if you bought a new RAM stick but try only using one of them, and make sure it is in the primary slot for the motherboard.

[Karmps.]

Switch ram sticks with another holes might work...

[9r2e5i3k]

RAM is not the problem guys, I had the problem before I got the second RAM module, and the first one was tested with 4 different tools.

[rid]

with your info, I can only think of a defective power supply...
I have lots of old hardware on my garage to build small PCs (most of them without cases), and I was trying to solve a similar problem. It was the power supply, I changed it to another and no more freezes
It was something in the power supply, either some bad contact, some half-damaged component or whatever.
It also might be too weak for your system, I don't know because you didn't really mention your power supply info.

when I had a not-so-good PSU on my (recent) hardware it also used to freeze - but not permanently - in heavier games, due to the graphic card asking more power than what was recieving. (The +12v amperage was a bit low)