how to fix my computer that has froze on me?

Question

Okay, so i may sound a bit dumb for this.
but a couple weeks ago, my computer froze on me, so i shut it off by pressing the power button.
& i guess that was a huge mistake because now, it will not turn back on.
it will either not turn on at all, or it will turn on and once it gets to my homepage or desktop and freeze again.

thanks,.(:
anyways way to help me fix it?

Answer 1

For *you* to fix it? Not unless you take a few electronics courses. For a computer repair shop to fix it? Take it in and get an estimate. Compare that to the price of a new computer, consider how old yours is and what features a new one will give you, and decide.



(If it's a bad hard drive, the drive [a 1TB or 1.5TB - maybe a 2TB by next week] is under $100. You'll have to buy a Windows disk from the computer manufacturer if you don't have one - that should be $25 or less. If a shop does it - and you have to be sure that they're installing Windows legally - it could run you a few hundred. [And insist on a Seagate drive. For some reason, even though they're no cheaper, people insist on using Western Digital drives - the ones that fail 3 minutes after the warranty ends. Seagate has taken back drives that are months past the warranty, if the failure could have been their fault.])

Answer 2

First of all, your right. You should NEVER use the power button to just shut off the computer. In your case, you would have been better off allowing the computer to sit to see if it would eventually unfreeze to be able to, or another option may have been to open your TASK MANAGER and closing down individual programs one by one to see if that would allow you to find what program or programs were making your computer to lock up to begin with. You can also log off as well as shut down with TASK MANAGER. A HARD shut down like you mention forces software to stop without being allowed to close out properly thus in some cases creating broken links and corrupting the software. It sounds to me like you have a second problem as well.

If you say that you hit the power button and the computer sometimes doesn't turn on, you may have a bad power switch OR a bad power supply. Either way, unless you get the power situation figured out you won't need to worry about your software situation if the computer doesn't boot.

If you have ANY kind of computer experience, you know that static can be a killer to a circuit board. So be careful with this next suggestion.........

UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER 1st !!!!

Open your computer tower. check to see if the fans, mother board, cooling fans, cooling fins, etc are covered with allot of dust. If so, DO NOT WIPE the dust off!! This may have been causing shorts and overheating. Go to a store and purchase the aerosol can of cleaner designed for electrical and computers. (ask for help if need be) to get the right stuff.

Blow off all the surfaces I mentioned careful not to get the aerosol or dust into your eyes. This can create a serious cloud if you have never done this before, so I suggest you do this on the work bench in the garage or somewhere you won't create static. DO NOT wipe anything with a cloth or even place the tower on any cloth while doing this. (STATIC)

This would be a good time to check the wires to the power switch as well as the power supply while the tower is open. See if they are secure.

After you have cleaned out the dust, wait at least 15 minutes before you reconnect the power supply to assure the aerosol has dried completely. Try to boot up the computer.

IF it boots, you MAY now be OK. If not, you may have a bad power button or power supply.

If it does boot to your desktop but then starts to freeze, then you should start thinking you have a software issue. You may have to do a RESTORE to a previous date to see if that resolves your issues. If that doesn't help, I suggest you do a complete restore of either restoring windows, or a destructive restore to put the system back to OEM.

Answer 3

The most likely cause is a bloated registry which has become the home for all kinds of useless bits and pieces of data. Whenever any change is made to the system settings or a program is installed or uninstalled, a new entry is generated in the registry. The operating system while running your computer has to pick its way through all this excess material. There is a multitude of useless bits and pieces to be removed.Parts of uninstalled programs,parts of incompletely installed programs,dead drivers and many other things. clean your registry and remove all the useless data fragments and no longer needed information to fix the freeze error! I should like to commend Registry Easy http://computer-work-smooth.com to you !You can try ! Good luck!

Answer 4

when that happens hold down the Alt key & hit F4, that will bring up u turn off comp. box ur be on standby 1 right arrow hit & u will be on shut down hit the enter key & u will shut down the right way, u can do that even if u can't see it. like will a blue screen r black. Now for the freezing at start-up, pop in ur install CD in the CD_ROM drive & shutdown. then restart & maybe u can do a repair, r ur recovery disks, if u get t the desktop in the run box type SFCspace/scannow, that will scan for error's & fix them Good Luck>:) Voila

Answer 5

You have some hardware failure. If it does not power on sometimes it may be the power supply. You may even be having some motherboard issues.