Comp freezes when I start apps...
Hello, I hope someone might be able to help. It seems that my computer has decided to start freezing when I run just about any application. I can surf the net, get email and play windows games like solitare, etc. But once I start something like Counter-Strike or Ventrillo or any other program that takes resources, it freezes and won't unfreeze until I reboot.
I checked all 3 sticks of ram individually and the same thing occurred. One of the sticks wasn't even in my comp when it happened. I don't see how it could be the power supply, being that it's new and is not showing any signs of trouble. I did place all 3 sticks in the first slot only, so after reading many other posts on here, I am wondering if I should try slot 3 or what.
What I was doing:
My buddy has the same comp, I built them at the same time. Well his seems to boot a ton faster than mine. He told me he went into BIOS and clicked "Load Optimized Defaults" and it screamed. OK, so I tried it the other night and it seemed to have done a little something. So I did it again last night. Don't know why, just did it a second time. Anyway, I load up and go to get on Vent and it froze. I reboot, try again, freeze. OK, so here I think I did something wrong. I go back to BIOS and "Load Fail/Safe Defaults", same thing. Only this time, when I rebooted I could see nothing. LOL, it seems fail safe loads the PCI vid as default. I have AGP. So that adds some frustration. I fix that. I go through ALL my BIOS settings, make sure they are set how they should be. It still happens. I give up and go to bed.
OK, so that's what happened last night. That's where I am now. Oh ya, my sound has also taken a crap too. I was running my sound through a Creative SB Live! Value. I disabled the onboard sound.
I should mention that for the past couple weeks I have been fighting Spyware crap on my system. I run NoAdware, Spybot Destroyer and I still get crap popping up and my home page hijacked. I have run a virus scan in the midst of this battle and come out clean. I just can't seem to find the damn culprit no matter what I uninstall or what prog I run to get rid of em.
I am getting ready to try a reinstall and see if that does the trick. But now this crap with the freezing came up and I am at a loss.
I should probably inform you of my system:
AMD 1700+ XP on a:
Gigabyte GA-7VAX mobo
VIA KT400 chipset
333/266/200 MHz FSB
RAM Max capacity : Up to 3GB by 3 DIMM slots
1 x AGP slot (8X/4X); 5 x PCI slots
On board Realtek LAN
On board Realtek Sound
Thermaltake VOLCANO 9 Cooler
768MB Ram - Generic (512MB 2100 266, 256MB 2700 333)
GeForce2 MX440 64MB AGP Video
WD 160GB HDD
Creative SB Live! Value sound card
Windows XP Pro OS
There she is, hope this helps anyone to help me, maybe please.
Thanks,
Steve
Holy crap that's alot running........
OK, I have run Adaware and it cleaned up alot. I ran the Panda and Housecall virus scanns and they each found something that is now cleaned. Here is the Hijackthis log, I hope it helps, cuz it lost me:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 5:07:30 PM, on 7/1/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton Utilities\NPROTECT.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\SPEEDD~1\nopdb.exe
C:\Program Files\RealVNC\VNC4\WinVNC4.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\MsPMSPSv.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\iqqarf.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\devldr32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Downloaded Programs\HiJack This\hjtlog.exe
c:\hijackthis\hijackthis.exe
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.sinzclan.com/
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant = about:blank
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Int ernet Settings,ProxyOverride = *hot-searches.com*;*lender-search.com*
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page_bak = http://www.sinzclan.com/
R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - _{CFBFAE00-17A6-11D0-99CB-00C04FD64497} - (no file)
R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - {707E6F76-9FFB-4920-A976-EA101271BC25} - C:\Program Files\TV Media\TvmBho.dll
O1 - Hosts file is located at: C:\WINDOWS\nsdb\hosts
O1 - Hosts: 81.211.105.69 lender-search.com
O1 - Hosts: 81.211.105.68 hot-searches.com
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {0000607D-D204-42C7-8E46-216055BF9918} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {549B5CA7-4A86-11D7-A4DF-000874180BB3} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5886A6DC-AAF4-45E9-979A-8E5E6DEE30E7} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll
O2 - BHO: NAV Helper - {BDF3E430-B101-42AD-A544-FADC6B084872} - C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {FDD3B846-8D59-4ffb-8758-209B6AD74ACC} - (no file)
O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msdxm.ocx
O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Norton AntiVirus - {42CDD1BF-3FFB-4238-8AD1-7859DF00B1D6} - C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ccApp] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ccRegVfy] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccRegVfy.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [udrzogxsj] C:\WINDOWS\System32\iqqarf.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [zSearch] C:\Program Files\zSearch\Zstb.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Symantec NetDriver Monitor] C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\SNDMon.EXE
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [zSearch] C:\Program Files\zSearch\Zstb.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [msmc] C:\WINDOWS\System32\msmc.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\RunOnce: [TV Media] C:\Program Files\TV Media\Tvm.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Google Search - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmsearch.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Backward &Links - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmbacklinks.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Cac&hed Snapshot of Page - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmcache.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: RemindU - file://C:\Program Files\UpromiseRemindU\System\Temp\upromise_script0 .htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Si&milar Pages - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmsimilar.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate into English - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmtrans.html
O9 - Extra button: Messenger (HKLM)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Yahoo! Messenger (HKLM)
O9 - Extra button: AIM (HKLM)
O9 - Extra button: Messenger (HKLM)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger (HKLM)
O9 - Extra button: RemindU (HKCU)
O16 - DPF: {02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B} (QuickTime Object) - http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab
O16 - DPF: {10000000-1000-0000-1000-000000000000} - file://C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\setup.exe
O16 - DPF: {166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000} (Shockwave ActiveX Control) - http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...ctor/swdir.cab
O16 - DPF: {30528230-99F7-4BB4-88D8-FA1D4F56A2AB} (YInstStarter Class) - http://download.yahoo.com/dl/installs/yinst0309.cab
O16 - DPF: {4C39376E-FA9D-4349-BACC-D305C1750EF3} (EPUImageControl Class) - http://tools.ebayimg.com/eps/wl/acti...l_v1-0-3-9.cab
O16 - DPF: {74D05D43-3236-11D4-BDCD-00C04F9A3B61} (HouseCall Control) - http://a840.g.akamai.net/7/840/537/2...ll/xscan53.cab
O16 - DPF: {9A9307A0-7DA4-4DAF-B042-5009F29E09E1} (ActiveScan Installer Class) - http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/as5/asinst.cab
O16 - DPF: {9F1C11AA-197B-4942-BA54-47A8489BB47F} (Update Class) - http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...996.6695601852
O16 - DPF: {BD9B72E4-DC9C-4922-80E9-2D3315E3AADC} (UAClientControl Control) - http://www.ultimatearena.com/UAClientControl.ocx
O16 - DPF: {C2FCEF52-ACE9-11D3-BEBD-00105AA9B6AE} (Symantec RuFSI Registry Information Class) - http://security.symantec.com/SSC/Sha.../bin/cabsa.cab
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...sh/swflash.cab
O16 - DPF: {EB387D2F-E27B-4D36-979E-847D1036C65D} (QDiagHUpdateObj Class) - http://h30043.www3.hp.com/hpdj/en/check/qdiagh.cab?312