Hi,
I know there's a few computer geeks around here so I thought id try here before registering up to a pc help forum.
My PC is freezing for about 10 seconds every 5 minutes or so. Annoying.
Matching up the times it freezes to the event viewer (WIN XP) the' source' of the error says 'atapi' and sometimes says 'i8042prt'
I should mention that I had an identical problem with this PC about 1 year ago and after lots of internet searching without any solutions, my dad recommended giving the inside of the PC a good clean actually which fixed the problem!.....(until now)
So it Seems obvious that it just needs another clean, which I done this morning.
Gave it a good vacuum inside, but, unfortunately it hasn't helped
Anyone got any ideas???
(i've attached the event viewer in case it helps anyone)
I know there's a few computer geeks around here so I thought id try here before registering up to a pc help forum.
My PC is freezing for about 10 seconds every 5 minutes or so. Annoying.
Matching up the times it freezes to the event viewer (WIN XP) the' source' of the error says 'atapi' and sometimes says 'i8042prt'
I should mention that I had an identical problem with this PC about 1 year ago and after lots of internet searching without any solutions, my dad recommended giving the inside of the PC a good clean actually which fixed the problem!.....(until now)
So it Seems obvious that it just needs another clean, which I done this morning.
Gave it a good vacuum inside, but, unfortunately it hasn't helped
Anyone got any ideas???
(i've attached the event viewer in case it helps anyone)