Programs freezing and stops responding

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Peppel

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I'm new to the forums, so hey all.
Thought my first post would be a little troubleshooting.

Basically, all programs freeze after a while, and if I try to alt + tab, the screen of the program that froze turns white, and nothing happens, so the only way out is ctrl+alt+del.

When this first happened, I tried to reboot to see if it got better, but instead I was greeted by a message at bootup saying "system files missing or damaged"
I tried all repairs that the Windows Vista OS CD had to offer, but it didnt work.
So I reformatted, and here I am now, clean PC, all drivers installed, but the problem persists it seems. (The system files missing or damaged error is gone though)

This all started after I had my PC on for 2-3 days straight, so could be that something got burnt?

Any help is appreciated.


Motherboard: Biostar TP43D2-A7 Intel P43+ICH10 chipset
Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz(4CPUs)
RAM: Plazir 8GB DDR2 PC6400
Graphicscard: ATI radeon HD5800 series
Harddrive: Samsung SpinPoint 1000GB S-ATA300 32Mb
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
 
hmm I have a problem booting my PC without the vista OS CD in the drive, if I dont have it in, I get an error saying BootMGR is missing. I've had this problem for years, and I have no idea how to get around it. It shows up at the same screen where it says "Press any key to boot from CD"
 
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When you see that message "press any key to boot from cd", press any key so that the cd boots. You will need to do repair install of vista as you are missing a bootfile that is on the cd and thats why its boots when the cd is in the drive and doesn't when its not.

Follow this guide to do the repair.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html

Once done you should be able to remove the cd and boot up normally.
 
I've run the startup repair countless times since it first happened, and it isnt fixing it. I tried system restore aswell before formatting, that didnt work either.

Startup repair always asks for a restore, and if I say no, I get "Windows cant repair this PC automatically"
 
Remove the drive that windows isn't installed on and do the repair again. It seems your boot files is on the other drive or you may end up doing a fresh install without the other drive installed.
 
Simply removing my secondary drive appears to have fixed the bootmgr missing problem... But now it wont let me boot off the CD.
 
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alright its working now, so the bootMGR problem is fixed, thanks john, you solved a mystery for me. I appreciate your time and help =) I'll be back once I have run the tests
 
The samsung utility came up clean, but the memtest showed as follows;

TST: 8
Pass: 0
Failing Adress: 0003e896bf8 - 1000.3mb
Good: 00000004
Bad: 00000005
Err-bits: 00000001
Count: 1
CPU: 1
Time: 2:29
Iterations: 6
test_sel: STD
Pass: 1
Errors: 2

I also just noticed that the freezing is more like a single program freezing, cause when I manage to close down the unresponsive program, the rest is still running, or if I'm patient and wait for 5-10mins the program starts responding again.

Anything else I should post about the scan(s) just hollar.
 
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You will have to run the memtest scan on each individual stick of ram until you find the one that is giving errors. Then replace it.
 
Just taking out the drive seems to have fixed the problem. It's been running smooth for about 3 hours (usually takes 20mins before it freezes). Is it possible that my 2nd drive was causing my problems?
 
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Well John, thank you so very very much for your help =) I dont know what I would've done without your help, I'd probably end up raging and trashing the pc.
 
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