I have a chart that shows the wattage needed for low, mid, or high grade equipment. And it list's the type like, HDD, Ram, motherboard and stuff. So i might need to calulate that all out. Maybe i don't have enough. Thanks!

My computer resources suddenly shot up high. Everything slowed.

I tried scan for virus using the latest AVG but no avail.

It's been plague my pc for a month.

The only reason I've been tolerant is because it happens once in a few days.

Yes but sometimes it is dangerous to unpluging things on the computer. My friend unpluged his whole computer to move it someplace else and then his computer crashed from viruses.

I think it is because when you unplug it something happens with the virus protection and it gets disabled. I also take computers and tecnology in highschool. So be carful cause you never really know.

I'd like to say not possable, but I won't, I'd still like to say highly unlikely. Viruses can't do anything while the computer is unplugged, and don't know if the computer has been unplugged, perhapse it was the restart, but certalny not unplugging it.

Anyway back to the problem at hand, it very well could be the power, if you have any extra HDDs or CD drives try unplugging them and seeing what happens, also a program that will record total power usages and report it to a log (you obvously can't look at the program when the computer freezes, and restarting will clear any information it may have had)

Do you have a gateway pc? I have on and it has done that before. It does it too sometimes when i plug in my psp or ipod when the computer is using large amounts of RAM. The first time i freaked out.

it is less likely that a virus caused that.. lol.. unless someone is good enough to program something that could alter the electrical flows on your motherboard or something and fried it. lol

Well, a most likely reason for that is probably your CPU is overheated. If your computer is a AMD based, it will freeze when the CPU is overheated to prevent damage to your cpu. On the other hand, Intel chips usually automatically downclock the cpu to reduce the heat, that's why some user might experience their computer lagging or computer resource shot up really high. My best advice is to increase the air circulation in your computer by installing more fans or replace the CPU heatsink with a more powerful one.

by the way, for most Intel pentium 4 chips, the maximum temperture the processor could reach before getting fried is 76 degree C. You should try to install those system monitor program to check your CPU temperature.

That's not very helpful advice.
My computer did do that once. Unplugging it didn't work. Turns out I had to turn off all electricity for the computer circuit from the fuse box.

It was a complete power drainage from the PowerBar that caused it to restart.

Anyways, thanks for the tip. It might help others.

i had the same problem a while ago. that wa before my PSU blew out in my face and i got it replaced. my pcs been fine since then, never freezes, never have to unplug the power cord or anythng. i'm think ur problem is related to ur power supply aswell, u should get it checked out or rpelaced. it might not have be because ur lacking the power needed for ur pc as someone said, because i had a 450w PSU before and now its only a 400w and works fine. who know, computers can be a real mystery.

It is still not a smart idea to do things like that it could easily give virus.