{"id":1682,"date":"2019-07-12T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2019-07-12T20:34:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T20:34:40","slug":"types-of-computer-hangs-and-reasons-causing-them-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/2019\/07\/12\/types-of-computer-hangs-and-reasons-causing-them-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Computer Hangs and Reasons Causing Them Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The computer hangs or freezes issue is one of the many computer problems encountered by several computer users every now and then. It can happen anytime, while someone is in the middle of a business deal or just an academic project, thus many find computer hangs impeding in their daily jobs. If this is the case with your home or PC computer as well and your computer also goes frozen from a perfectly running machine, then the time has come that you count on a good computer repair technician. Computer hangs or freezes can occur due to some malfunctioning in either software or hardware components of the computer<\/a>. And a determination of the exact reason for this problem can help the computer repair technicians fix your computers quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before\ndiving into the reasons that cause computer hangs, you should have a basic\nunderstanding of different types of computer freezes or hangs. These types are\ncategorized as the hang, random hang, generic freeze, and single-app freeze.\nHangs occur when on performing a specific job, the computer freezes, forcing\nyou to restart it to recover the data. When hangs take place on regular\nintervals, forcing you to restart the system every time it happens, it is\ncalled random hangs. However, when the system goes unresponsive and turns back\nto normal condition itself, it is called generic hangs. Single-app freeze is\nthe condition when you try to start a program or app and system turns\nunresponsive abnormally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having\nunderstood different types of computer hangs, here are some reasons that cause\nthese issues and call for immediate PC computer repair in Ottawa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple Apps Running at A Time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you\nwork on a program on your home computer, it utilizes some portion of its\ninternal and hardware resources, which eventually slows down the computer.\nHence, hangs are obvious to occur when multiple apps are running in the same\ninstance of time on a computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issues with The Driver<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the\nmany reasons behind frequent computer hangs is an outdated or damaged driver.\nChances stand that videos on your computers aren\u2019t playing properly or hangs up\nthe entire system when trying to play them, due to an outdated video driver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operating System Issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Even if\nthere is no particular hanging issue in your computer, it is advised to conduct\nregular operating system updates for seamless computer jobs and to avoid\nexpensive home computer repair in Ottawa<\/strong>. Besides that, a malfunctioning\noperating system can also be a reason that causes unresponsive computer system\nproblem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardware Misconfiguration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Computer freezes\nand hangs are most likely to happen due to a hardware misconfiguration. When\nyou install an incompatible hardware computer in your computer case, you face\nhangs or computer freezing issues. To investigate if this is actually the case,\ntry to run the system after removing that newly installed hardware component.\nIf it runs smoothly now, then try to find an appropriate alternative to it in\nthe market.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insufficient RAM<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Insufficient RAM can cause a random hang problem in the computers; hence it is mandatory to keep sufficient RAM to avoid system malfunctioning. This happens because, 3D games or heavy browsing applications, generally, make the system bulky for an insufficient RAM to deal with. Here’s how to choose which RAM to use on your upgrade.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the\nforegoing are the reasons that cause different types of hang and freeze issues\nin the computers. With the understanding of these reasons, you can accelerate\nthe process of recovering your critical data and files and rest assured that\nyour work would not suffer because of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The computer hangs or freezes issue is one of the many computer problems encountered by several computer users every now and then. It can happen anytime, while someone is in the middle of a business deal or just an academic project, thus many find computer hangs impeding in their daily jobs. If this is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldstaging.ticktocktech.com\/ottawa-computer-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}