Complete standstill help

mrt88

mrt88

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Hi guys got a massive problem with my machine that I can't for the life of me figure out.
Basically I end up with a total machine freeze. Everything is totally unresponsive, if music is playing it freezes as if its a stuck record and you get a annoying pitch sound. happens in games, net everything but yet at totally random intervals. And has never recovered (needs to be turned of from switch)
From what I can tell I think it's my wireless card playing up. I've never had this problem when I'm wired to the router or got my card disconnected.
The card is a belkin f5d9000 wireless G+mimo. The drivers are up to date, and I cant find any alternative ones.
Am I on the right track with my thinking? Any help would be stunning, thanks so much guys
Theo
 
If it only happens when you have the wireless card in, it sounds like you've already figured it out. You could try google with the wireless model name and 'freeze' etc to see if it's a known issue, otherwise I'd try it in another PC and see if it does the same. If so, you could probably send it back for replacement if it's faulty, or if not, it could be a hardware incompatibility.

To help remove a software cause, did you install the wireless software from the provided CD? I recommend avoiding doing that, windows should pick up the drivers and install it automatically. If you have, remove the belkin software and restart, then let windows use windows update (with ethernet cable in!) to get the drivers that way, I've found it's more reliable.
 
Driver is the latest one that windows found, not from the cd. Shame I haven't got another pc to test it in. And I can't send it back ive had it for a while.
Thanks for The advice :)
If it is hardware anyone recommend th oc wireless card ?
 
I'd recommend using ethernet instead, it's much more reliable and in most cases, faster. As for wireless cards, I don't use any right now, use a USB ASUS one occasionally which is rubbish, but it was cheap.
 
Thanks, it has to be wireless were I am at the moment so I haven't got that option open to me.
Just been looking in event viewer and have come across 2 kernel-power critical fails, but I think that me just flicking the switch as I couldn't do anything else, but there isn't much indication of anything going wrong in the viewer before the power fail.
 
i had a similar issue, well ym pc kept on freezing like your but mine was becuase i didnt put a screw into a standoff so it was shorting
 
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