Broadband locking up...
 

Can anyone help & give tell me any common causes for my connection to keep locking up? - When it happens I have to reboot. P.s - I'm not technically minded.:puzzled:

ils. Asking the obvious have you scanned for a Virus/Worm etc. 4D

We need way more info...

OS
Apps
AV?
USB or CAT5 broadband
Any recent changes to your PC? patches etc

Just had my computer cleaned 1737 nasty things on it all thanks to my 13 year old down loading ???:flame::flame:
works very well now very fast.:D

Thanks guys, I was beginning to lose heart! My computer has now started to lock up when offline as well. I'm using quite a new virus checker & nothing shows up. I've recently cleaned out a load of crap from the hard drive which has quickened things up, but to be honest the pc is getting on a bit and needs replacing.
Cheers, Illya.

Try these three:

Ad-aware

Spybot search and destroy

Hijack This

Once you have cleaned your machine of all the spyware, run a verus scan, defrag and then run disk cleanup. Then get a firewall and you are ready to roll again.

Defrag in safe mode with only the minimum programmes running the defrag is quicker and more thorough i defrag once a week.

(for those who don't know ) usually safe mode usually is accessed by pressing F8 on boot up