My system is freezing or locking up. In most cases everything is locked and the computer is making a muted tic tic tic. In some cases the arrow will move,
but everything is locked up. ESC doesn't work. CTRL+ALT+DEL won't work. I've had to do a hard shutdown. When rebooting I've had lockups and the occasional Hard Disk not found and I/O errors. In some cases I've had to attemp to reboot 10 times before the operating system is loaded.
I have Windows XP Home Edition.
When I tried to reinstall the Flight Simulator it got most of the way through then froze.
When I scanned the disk looking for the error it froze.
When I defraged it froze.
I checked the Event viewer under system and the errors are as follows:
90% are Service Control Manager Event 7023
a bunch more are W32Time Events 29 and 17
some are atapi Event 9
1 system Error
1 disk Error
and 1 Windows Update agent Error.
A friend who pretends to know a bit more about most things claims the Hard drive is faulty and needs replacing.
Any help would be appreciated.
but everything is locked up. ESC doesn't work. CTRL+ALT+DEL won't work. I've had to do a hard shutdown. When rebooting I've had lockups and the occasional Hard Disk not found and I/O errors. In some cases I've had to attemp to reboot 10 times before the operating system is loaded.
I have Windows XP Home Edition.
When I tried to reinstall the Flight Simulator it got most of the way through then froze.
When I scanned the disk looking for the error it froze.
When I defraged it froze.
I checked the Event viewer under system and the errors are as follows:
90% are Service Control Manager Event 7023
a bunch more are W32Time Events 29 and 17
some are atapi Event 9
1 system Error
1 disk Error
and 1 Windows Update agent Error.
A friend who pretends to know a bit more about most things claims the Hard drive is faulty and needs replacing.
Any help would be appreciated.