PC freezes

[xephon]

My pc has been freezing latley. What should I do to fix this. I did a registry scan, virus scan, spyware scan, and a defragment scan. Also a disk error scan. I do not want to format it...yet. I want to know if their is an alternative.

I have died alot in RFO and Supreme destiny because of this.

[astinus]

Post your specs.

Make sure your fan is working fine, because it may be your computer overheating. Clean your fan of any dust.

I remember when my fan got clogged with so much dust to the point it couldn't move, and my fan is over the chip thing, so all it was doing was containing all the hot air.

Everytime I ran an app that used a high amount of CPU (any game, cdburners etc), it would crash. I rebooted, and saw the cpu teperature was at 100degrees celsius :-0.

Cleaned my fan and everything was in working order.

[xephon]

You read my mind. I went to the riteaid to get a duster can. Out of the few minutes I have been on my pc I have yet to get a freeze.
Dell
windows 2000
Intel pentium 4
cpu 2.20ghz
522,244kb ram
ati radeon 9200
cable
3 hd 40 gb on each

xephon wrote:
You read my mind. I went to the riteaid to get a duster can. Out of the few minutes I have been on my pc I have yet to get a freeze.

So it's fixed?

[xephon]

It freezing a little. It does not freeze for a minute like before.

[XiaoVal]

Eh...
When it freeze, is there a beep when it freeze or before it freeze?