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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Haus of Tech Support > Computer is unusably unstable, freezes every ten minutes or so.
 
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Dr Cox MD
Sep 11, 2001

Listen Up, Newbies.
Hit Ctrl+Shift+Escape to bring up the Task Manager. You can sort processes by CPU/RAM/HD use, or pop over to the Performance tab for charts of resource consumption. There's also a link to the Resource Monitor at the bottom of the Task Manager if you want a more technical view.

Keep this open and see if you notice anything happening before things go south.

It might be time to back up your hard drive, maybe try a new one? Unplugging the machine can make the HD sad.

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