Old Computer keeps freezing...

It could be RAM is insufficient, if available add one more stick of RAM

 

have you installed memory management driver?
or any RST/Sata driver?

maybe check harddisk speeds ...

 

How warm is the VGA card getting?

 

A faulty PSU can also give u does type of issues how much mem do u have in their now?

 

he needs to give us more info....i would agree i seen bad PSU do strange things to machines.

 

Judging by the model number of this eMachine the op posted a link too, it originally ran Vista which means this is probably 10 years or more old. eMachine's have had a notorious reputation for crappy power supplies.

 

You claim that there is 4GB of memory installed, but you first screenshot shows that the system detects only 2GB of memory. I would investigate why. Either one DIMM is not the correct spec for the machine, or it's not installed properly.

 

Old computer, bad capacitors might be.

Spoiler

 

op has 32 bit Windows 7, so 4 gb won't be used, possibly 3.5 gb or something like that.... but it'll never use the 4 gb's

 

Speccy should have showed the physically installed memory, whether it's x86 or x64 OS, shouldn't it?

 

That is true. But the screenshot only shows 2GB of memory, which is exactly half of what ThomasMann claims is installed. 32 bit OS and shared video memory be damned, there is a problem with the memory itself or the way it's installed.

 

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the OP has a I7 first Gen running X32 win7 he should be running 64bit OS so he can have full capability of the 4GIG of ram....about the freezing could be driver or old falling HW.

 

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post #16 i must have been looking at the wrong one.

 

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