My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins

[-SpectraL]

As zok jr. and SBTlauien pointed out, bad sectors on the hard drive could very well cause the mouse pointer to freeze. That's probably exactly what's causing it.

[zok jr.]

Lawl almost all of these post are retarded.

Drivers can go bad as a result of an infection. I can almost guarantee if he booted a live CD right now everything would work hence not a hardware malfunction.  Trust me I'm studying double major in EE and CSE   8======>

You need to study more if he booted from a live cd he wouldn't be using the hard disk and that's why it would be working correctly. You may be taking your 101 computer classes but i do this in the real world every day it's my job. I would bet everything i own ink a failing hard disk.

[Goatwhore]

zok jr. is retarded, it's most likely a bad video driver. Install debian.

[god]

I'm not even  going to begin to try to explain how retarded you are.

[-SpectraL]

Just because he's retarded doesn't mean he isn't right.

[god]

retarded = wrong

[-SpectraL]

retarded = wrong

Was Forrest Gump wrong? No. So, there.

[zok jr.]

:Facepalm:

[god]

These nigga's don't get it?


Wrong way down a one way.

I don't ever play, but I'm in the game.

[General Fault]

Quick way to make sure it is or isn't an OS issue would be to download and burn a Live CD of some Linux distro. Ubuntu is easy. Boot from that. If it still locks up, it's hardware.

Sounds like a hardware issue, chip locking up or shutting down due to thermal problem. This would be the CPU, GPU or North Bridge. Start with the CPU. Take off the chip cooler, clean the thermal compound off with isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs. Apply some new quality thermal compound. A little dab on the chip is what I usually use, then dab it around with my fingertip until it's a thin even layer. Less is more in this case. The purpose is to fill any tiny voids between the metal surfaces. Too much and it forms an insulator. Some companies put on so much it looks like a birthday cake exploded in there. Test it out. If that didn't solve it, replace thermal compound on the other components that have coolers.

[RustyShackleford]

Quick way to make sure it is or isn't an OS issue would be to download and burn a Live CD of some Linux distro. Ubuntu is easy. Boot from that. If it still locks up, it's hardware.

Sounds like a hardware issue, chip locking up or shutting down due to thermal problem. This would be the CPU, GPU or North Bridge. Start with the CPU. Take off the chip cooler, clean the thermal compound off with isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs. Apply some new quality thermal compound. A little dab on the chip is what I usually use, then dab it around with my fingertip until it's a thin even layer. Less is more in this case. The purpose is to fill any tiny voids between the metal surfaces. Too much and it forms an insulator. Some companies put on so much it looks like a birthday cake exploded in there. Test it out. If that didn't solve it, replace thermal compound on the other components that have coolers.

>Disassembling the computer before trying to reinstall the OS.
I'm not saying anyone is wrong about the possibility of hardware failure, but your jumping the gun.
Also as was stated a live cd won't help rule out hdd failure.

[zok jr.]

Quick way to make sure it is or isn't an OS issue would be to download and burn a Live CD of some Linux distro. Ubuntu is easy. Boot from that. If it still locks up, it's hardware.

Sounds like a hardware issue, chip locking up or shutting down due to thermal problem. This would be the CPU, GPU or North Bridge. Start with the CPU. Take off the chip cooler, clean the thermal compound off with isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs. Apply some new quality thermal compound. A little dab on the chip is what I usually use, then dab it around with my fingertip until it's a thin even layer. Less is more in this case. The purpose is to fill any tiny voids between the metal surfaces. Too much and it forms an insulator. Some companies put on so much it looks like a birthday cake exploded in there. Test it out. If that didn't solve it, replace thermal compound on the other components that have coolers.

No because booting from a live cd bypasses the hard disk which it most likely is.

If the problem were overheating, thermal protection would kick in and the computer would simply shut off unless it runs a bios from the 1980s.

[zok jr.]

Also north/south bridge and integrated graphics chip use a thermal shim not grease if anything at all.