Freezing

Freezing

To reset the Page File Right-click My Computer > then click Properties Advanced tab > settings > page file

Click disable page file Save settings and restart

Then do a defrag of the C: drive after it has completed reset the page file and restart …

The reason for resetting the page file is to ensure that no files (driver or DLL) are fragmented across the page file as windows has a bad habit of shrinking and expanding the page file causing massive fragmentation of the C: drive and its file system which can freeze the system in a manner that you are suffering

I always set my page file up as thus C: 50MB min - 50MB max D: (or any other internal HDD E: F: G: etc) 1024MB min 1024MB max

This will stop fragmentation on any of the drives that the page file will cause and if set to another HDD will give a slight speed increase to the system …

In my experience a weak or overloaded PSU will cause the system into a restart or shutdown, but the lock ups are normally down to driver/DLL errors which can be caused by a badly de-fragmented system. However, this does not rule the PSU out just yet … 