• Question: What exactly happens when a computer "freezes"?

    Asked by nicenadia to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 11 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Phillip Wilkinson

      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      There could be a few reasons.

      The most common are it get suck in a loop. So it keep repeating the same bit of ‘code’ over and over again, like a person who just keeps repeating themselves. Or it’s trying to access something stored in memory that isn’t there anymore.

    • Photo: Claudia Krehl

      Claudia Krehl answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      It may also freeze because the computer is trying to do too many things at once and it runs out of RAM. That’s just like us breaking down when trying to do lots of things at the same time.

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