CPU troubleshooting

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Guys

Just finishing reading the A+ certification for dummies book, yes I know bad buy

There's some advice on troubleshooting an apparent cpu issue which seems strange and wanted to know if u would do the same.

Symptoms: System boots ok but freezes consistently when running a certain application.

What would your first port of call be ?


Personally I'd try uninstalling the application and reisnstalling a known good copy of it...

 

Interesting question, I am not sure about the utility tools Wagnerk mentioned above.

But I would use the Computer management console, it's mentioned in A+ book and can be found in XP by doing a right click on My Computer

In the Computer Management Console you can see all the error reports of each application. It should show a report of which application failed to run.

Also there's the administrative tools under Control Panel.

These would be my first port of call before installing more software.

 

Pretty much what sparky, ucheeckymoney, and wagnerk said. If all that still doesnt resolve the prob, then starting looking into tools that test your hardware.

 

Google

 

Thanks for the replies.

The dummies book said to start testing the CPU with hardware diagnosis tools straight away....I thought it seemed hasty.

 

Yes i think it is hasty, especially as the vast majority of lock ups/crashes are OS/Software/Malware related