Random freezes

[AndersHelgemo]

So I've had with random freezes for a while, they became more and more frequent and at last my HDD started clicking and i couldn't boot up vista. Bought a new HDD and re installed vista.

Now after running smoothly for a week i've started getting more random freezes. I ran through the event viewer and the only error message i could find at the time it frooze was Error 3013 Category: Gatherer, here is the log:

The entry <C:\USERS\ANDERS\APPDATA\LOCAL\MOZILLA\FIREFOX\PROFILES\C2O2WQXP.DEFAULT\CACHE\5> in the hash map cannot be updated.

Context: Application, SystemIndex Catalog

Details:
A device attached to the system is not functioning. (0x8007001f)

Would appreciate any help and if you need more info let me know, thanks.

 

[richc46]

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[AndersHelgemo]

Okey.
I did the things in the link.
From what i could tell my GPU is overheating, it's at about 80C when idle and spikes at about 90 when gaming. I purchased a new graphics card not to long ago. So i'll go back to the old one and see if that changes things for me.

Thanks for the help Rich.

 

[Nobail]

Yikes! 80 deg C is 176 F! The internal temp of your computer should be near the same as a human can tolerate. I suspect your graphics card is causing the overheating. You might explore cooling options for your card, like a cooling fan. There are dozens on the market. Try swapping the new graphics card with the old one and see what happens. I hope you aren't overclocking!