Computer freezing... driving me insane!

Ole

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Recently my system has started freezing and it has become extremely annoying. Last night it happened after playing about 10 matches on Football Manager and I hadn't saved!

Basically the mouse won't move, the keyboard doesn't work, ctrl+alt+del doesn't work and the reset button doesn't work so I have to turn the power off at the back and reboot.

Here is my spec:

OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache

Any ideas as to what I should do?

I have tried to research the problem and thought it may be to with my hard drive. I found this advice on a different forum:

You'll need to turn off command queuing for the Samsung drives. With it enabled, under load the drives grind to a halt and freeze up Vista until you power cycle your computer - reset button doesn't do the trick.

From device manager you'll need to look at the Serial ATA Controller properties, find the right port your drive is connected to and uncheck the "Enable command queuing" option.

I had exact same problem with the pair of F1s I ordered. Crappy firmware I guess.
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Thought the OP was suffering a slightly different problem this seemed to work for him.

I tried to do the same thing but I can't seem to find a disable command queuing option in the device manager.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as it's driving me nuts!

Thanks.
 
Any ideas at all?

I have never upgraded my BIOS as I don't have a floppy drive, could this be the problem?
 
hahaha, my last post was exactly about this particular HDD :D
If you elimite every component on your PC as a cause of it except for the HDD you might want to read what I just posted before this..

here it is...
I install everything fine inc drivers.. but when I start transferring stuff to the 1TB HDD (samsung spinpoint), the 1TB HDD appparently, doesn't exist anymore.. Its as if it was unplugged.. error saying cannot find path on my 1TB drive.. tried one of my mates perfectly working 1TB HDD, which was the exact same model that I had on mine.. and I got the same error.. I updated the BIOS of my mobo.. still no luck, so I came to a conclusion that it just wasn't compatible with my mobo, so I just traded my 1TB HDD with my bros (free upgrade for him.)
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doiks14 said:
hahaha, my last post was exactly about this particular HDD :D
If you elimite every component on your PC as a cause of it except for the HDD you might want to read what I just posted before this..

here it is...
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Were you getting the same freezing error as me?
 
Ole said:
Were you getting the same freezing error as me?
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nope, I didn't get any sort of crash.. only the HDD itself crashed cause I didn't have it storing my OS, I just had it as a storage drive.. so I'd imagine that if it was my OS in the HDD, it would innevitably crash cause there is no OS (Drive doesn't exist from the PC's point of view.)

rodo said:
Check event viewer. Look for atapi errors as well in it
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do this.. If you do have them, then you pretty much had the same problem as I had :p

took me a week or so of testing till I finally came to my conclusion :D
 
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