My Gateway M305 notebook keeps freezing up, any ideas ?
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Hello. The most common reason for freezing is memory related. In other words what programs you have running etc is utilizing most of or requiring more memory than you have available. Reduce the number of programs in your start up menu to only those absolutley needed. Try not to have too many things running or open at the same time. Or, have more memory installed. Your usage style may just be exceeding the memeory your laptop has - even with all of these things\nabove take care of. It can be other things but this is the usual cause. Freezing is the laptop's way of saying: I cannot do what you are asking ...Like trying to turn on all of the electric things in your home all at once....the circuit breaker blows...you reset it ...then turn everything in the house on again...the same thing will happen. Use a few things only at any time or upgrade your laptop's ability to handle more at once! I hope this is of assistance. Also overheating (due to utilizing the laptop in scuh a manner that it's vents are blocked -like on your blanket in bed or similiar) is the second most common reason for this....If it feels really hot then this could be the problem. Laptops are best used on a table where it can vent (cool itself) rather than on a "lap" ..... they should have called them something else! Take care & good luck.
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The first thing I would do is check for heat.  Make sure the processor is not overheating.  This causes computers to freeze.  Next, download an anti spyware program: (Avast! Home Edition is free and really works good and Spybot does a good job too.  (Google them up if you want to use it)  Install the program but do not run the scans yet.  Turn off your computer, unplug the ethernet cable (or whatever your internet connection is).  Turn on your computer and run it in safe mode (as soon as you turn on your computer, keep pressing F8).  Once in safe mode run your anti spyware utility.  \n\nSome spyware is really clever that when you uninstall or quartine the process, it adds more processes.  If you go to safe mode, majority of them will not start and gives you a better scan.  While your there, you can also do a defrag.  Defragging is good in safe mode because in normal mode, defrag utilities cannot defrag anything that is running.
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Try cleaning it with a Clean kit which you can find in computers shops. Good luck!
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1) check for ventilation problems; CPUs (the core of your PC system) tend to get a lot of heat.\n2) if you have recently added new hardware (supposing you use Windows) go to "My PC(Right Mouse Click)Properties|Hardware|Device Manager", look for the new device, select its properties (again right button click, then Properties) and Disable it (there's a button just for that).\n\nIf those didn't work, then repost your question but explain you have checked for CPU temperature and new devices.\n\nHave a nice day without computer hangs!
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Could be that it was jarred and an internal component is not seated properly.  If you are comfortable with doing so, you can try reseating the memory, hard drive, wifi card, etc... to see if that fixes the problem.  If you are not comfortable doing so, take it to someone who is.
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i would be checking the cooling fan first.if it is not running thats your overheating problem.not knowing how old your box is?-what version of windows or are you using windows  makes it pretty hard for us to answer.have you overloaded it?have you done a recent defrag-there could be several reasons.
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Hmm.i do not think it is a problem with your hardware if it just freezes when you use Yahoo Mail...do not mess with your hardware over this. Try using another e-mail service like Hotmail or something and make sure you can surf the other sites on Internet....if yahoo still freezes your cmputer maybe you have a virus.
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go into the bios either the advanced settings or intergrated settings you should be able to disable it or set it to pci or agp
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I think it is problem in your BIOS settings. It is trying to detect a hardware that is not functioning. So try to correct the BIOS settings.
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Hi\nIts really simple just make sure your RAM is connected properly And your processor too...\n\nEnjoy
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Have you tried disabling your screen saver?\n\nDo a scan and repair on your hard drives.\n\nWhen the Internet locks up do CTRL ALT DEL and see if there is anything not responding.\n\nShut down all unnecessary programs & see if it happens. If not reactivate your programs until you find the culprit.\n\nIf you have your hard drive power down after a period of activity disable the power down.\n\nI will assume you have done virus & spyware scans.
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we have that problem before, of course there might be two problems on that, one is hardware problem and two id software problem, software problem = have you tried to reformat that computer coz if you do so and its happening again ts the hardware problem already. \nhardware problem = in most case that problem is in motherboard, try to buy a usb adaptor it is much cheaper than buying a new board...
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This could be a cooling issue, check your fans and dust out your system. I saw one system the other day that did this because of the massive amount of dust, even though the fans were still turning. \nAlso try starting the computer in safe mode and see if it works then or locks up without restarting. A bad XP install will cause this sort of action. Sometimes there is a bios option that tells the system to restart on error, you can turn this off to help diagnose the problem.
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There should be a "Pause Break" button above your PageUp button.  On boot up you can hit that to freeze the screen.
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Do not whack it on the side, it is not a mechanical problem. This issue could be attributed to lack of RAM, how may RAM do you have? to check:\n\nRight click My Computer icon on Desktop> Properties> General Tab\n\nUsually laptops have 256 or 512 MB of RAM, sometimes when we have applications running, we run out of memory causing the system to freeze. If your system freezes, just wait till it is able to execute all the task you have ask it to do (one by one, slowly) let the computer take its time...\n\nOR better yet...upgrade your RAM....if you have 2 slots (normally), purchase 1GB of RAM...and you would not worry anymore, your computer will not get some spanking from you..
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Make sure your virus protection is up to date, then scan for viruses. Install a spyware removal program and then remove all spyware. \n\nSometimes another program will make your computer freeze up, as they can conflict with other programs. Especially the ones downloaded from the Internet. Try removing any programs that you added around the time you noticed the "hang ups." After, use the hard disk clean up utility, and then defrag. restart your system and see if it continues.\n\nIf it continues, use the System Restore utility to roll it back to an earlier time when it did not freeze up, and then try it out. You may need to find a good restore point and that may take a couple of tries. It takes a few minutes to do, so do it when you get a chance.\n\nP.S. Your P3 should be fine. I have an old computer with a P2, true it's not near as fast as the P4, but it is fine if it works for you, I would not change it. I have found that most programs that say "must have P4" still run, but there are a few that will cause problems. And, note, one of the installed programs could be your problem, as I mentioned above.\n\nMy older computer uses Win2000, also.