I’m running a rapidly aging Homebuild PC that’s been showing signs of failure as of late. I’m not in a position to really afford a new PC nor to do a complete rebuild at the moment so I’m hoping to band-aid this thing in order to get a few more months out of it.
A couple months ago it was freezing completely a couple times every day. I did a squeaky clean install of XP Pro and that didn’t fix anything. I yanked an old HD out of the box and reseated all the memory and the video card and did the trick. I feel pretty confident that it was the old HD that was the problem.
The last couple days I’ve been seeing a strange issue where my cursor will freeze up. I’m pretty sure it’s the whole system that’s hung and not just the mouse but I haven’t been in a situation where I can really test that yet. What makes it so strange is that after about a 10 or 20 second pause it’ll free up and start working again. I’m not sure what the hell could be causing something like that from a hardware standpoint.
Do anyone have any ideas of how to diagnose this? Anyone seen it before?
It’s worth noting that I just upgraded to XP Service Pack 3 and Zune 2.5 so one of those could have introduced the issue, but it was fine for a half day before this started happening. Ideas?