System Freezes
Apr 5, 2008
I have a laptop that is about 10 months old. The operating system is Windows Vista Home Premium. It worked well for first 8 months,I think. Then it started to freeze. Sometimes it worked perfectly for few hours and then started freezing and sometimes it started freezing from when I turned it on.The freezes usually last from 10 seconds to more minutes. I usually restart the computer if the freeze lasts more than 3 minutes. So for about one month I didn't really think it was something that could mean a serious problem, and I didn't do anything about it.It stopped after two moths, I think.
Few days ago, it started again.I tried System Restore once, but it wasn't successful.I scanned the system for errors (I do that every month), defragmented my computer (I do that every month too), and used the Memory Diagnostics Tool after a recommendation from a friend, and none of these scans showed a problem. I scan my laptop for viruses and spyware every week and all that is found is a tracking cookie. I also didn't install any new hardware or software.
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Mar 15, 2009
I have set up a power plan in Vista Home Premuim 64Bit on my laptop. Is there anyway to have the laptop change to that plan when its plugged into the mains and stay on another one when its on battery? Or do I have to keep changing it?
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Aug 10, 2009
This entry is going to be long because I am going to tell you everything that I’ve done to try to make my machine work without crashing so solutions won’t be given that I have already tried. The purpose of this thread is to diagnose what my problem actually is, so that I can go and get an exchange for it.) This is the 2nd computer I have ever built. I built my old Pentium 4 from scratch when I was 12, no issues there and now I have built this. There is plenty of ventilation, 7 fans, in my system all up, not incl. the PSU. So my problem starts about 2 months after buying my PC….
Put XP pro 32-bit on it updated it to SP3, working fine. Added my sound card just AFTER this problem first appeared. So my screen Froze, Ctrl Alt Del didn’t work mouse wont move, I try to move my mouse with both my mice and my keyboards (they both have touchpads) still nothing. If audio is playing at the time it loops the last 1/2 second over and over, I NEVER GET A BSOD. (Blue Screen Of Death). I thought this sucks, it is a new PC I’ll hard restart it and then check the event log. Nothing irregular in the event log, so I ignored it.........
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Jun 11, 2010
I went into the advanced boot options to have my processors be listed as two and my max memory be listed as the 4096 I have in my system. Rebooted and fine. I went back into MSCONFIG and noticed that even though the check box was still checked under maximum memory.... the number had been set to zero. I wasn't thinking and actually exited out with a restart. Now when I am booting up, I get to where it says starting windows and my system freezes.
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May 17, 2009
A while back, I had a power failure. My machine is on a UPS and when the battery got low, it started to hibernate. I think the UPS must have failed all the way before the hibernation finished. I don't know this for sure because I was away from my computer when this happened. When I got back and powered up the machine, it would start to come out of hibernation and then freeze. I found out how to delete the hibernation data so that the computer would start normally, but ever since then the computer will freeze after it's been running for about 45 minutes or so. It's hard to say for sure because it will run fine as long as it's busy doing something, but if I let it sit idle, it will freeze after awhile. I've looked in the event viewer after restarting, but I don't see anything except routine messages. Is there some specific place I can look to figure out what's happening? I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 on an ASUS A8V Deluxe w/ an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and 2 GB of memory.
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Aug 4, 2009
My Sys: 32 bit Dell 8400 Dimension 3.4 ghz, 925 chipset and HT technology. 4gb of ram (3.4 showing), NVIDIA 6800 w/256 ram. SB Audigy Z2 sound card. BIOs is also current and nothing to tweak in there either...Performance is set to "power user." I did a CLEAN install of Vista 32bit Ultimate. All drivers are up to date and all Vista updates done to include SP2. After my final updates I did a defrag, a virus scan using CA Anti-Virus suite and also used CCleaner to fix any errors during the install and clean up any orphans etc.
I went through many Vista tips and tricks sites and diabled all the useless programs/mem-hogs etc. and also went thru the "Services" section and disabled the appropriate programs not required for a home user. Problem: After all the tweaks etc, my system seems to come to a halt (I get the spinning wheel for the cursor) and the system just spins for about a minute or so until something in the background lets go and then the system starts running again. Consistently does this...it just acts like it's running on low memory when there is plenty!!! No noise from the CPU indicating anything running, just quiet and then after a short while...the system just cranks back up like whatever's causing this is done and lets the OS get back to whatever it was tasked with doing before it just went idle...Hybernate is NOT enabled. Task manager does not show anything hogging resources to cause the system to go into a holding pattern! My mem-manager (Windows Vista Service Manager) states I have 69% mem available but the OS is running like I only have 500mb installed!
I've checked eveywhere I can imagine to find out WHY this happens but no luck. I've disabled all kinds of crap (per Vista articles on optimizations) and it makes no difference! I removed Win XP MCE only as I wanted to upgrade to a more current system and had this extra Vista OS available. WinXP MCE ran fine and never lagged on me EVER!!! I'd rather NOT go back to WinXP MCE as I like some of the newer featurs of Vista. This also happened with Win-7 32 bit....tried that OS as well...I can only guess these OSes were only ment for Core 2 Duo systems?
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Mar 21, 2009
It keeps freezing and has to be re-started using restart switch. There does not seem to be a pattern to the freezing that I can spot. It happens at least once a day, sometimes 4-5 times and the longest without was nearly 2 days (when I thought the problem had gone!). It can happen when browsing using firefox or IE. It can happen when using documents or playing PC games (A Vampyre Story and The Path) Initially after re-boot the system had to be repaired using the Vista CD but now it simply boots to option for safe mode or start windows normally. The perfromance monitor simply shows system not shut down properly,Have removed u-torrent, and peripherals except broadband connection (BTHomeHub 2) and wireless keyboard and mouse but to no avail.
I use McAfee for security and since most recent upgrade have to manually start windows defender using command prompt. BTW by freezing I mean that everything suddenly stops responding and nothing works including any key combos or mouse. Therefore can't access task manager.
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Dec 2, 2008
I'm running Vista Home Premium on a custom-built computer with a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 duo, 4 GB RAM 32-bit. Actually, I'm not sure if the freeze is caused by Vista or IE 7. Two or three times a day when I'm performing some task, doesn't matter what, the computer stops responding. The mouse pointer still works and there are no error messages, it just doesn't respond to the mouse or keyboard. After about 5 - 10 seconds it returns to normal. I would classify this as a minor irritant at this point,
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Feb 6, 2009
I'm having a problem watching videos. About an hour into a movie, I lose the video. My laptop freezes up and my screen goes black, although I still have audio. I have to power it down and then restart Windows normally. I have NVIDIA GeForce GO 7150 graphics w. 1071 mb shared video. It is set to "Let 3D Application Decide". Can anyone tell me what I need to do to stop these abnormal shutdowns?
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Mar 23, 2008
I recently purchased a HP a6200n which works relatively well. The only complaint is that frequently (at least once daily) the system will lock up. When this occurs the only way out is to hold the power button down and reboot. When the system locks, the screen will actually freeze the contents and make it appear somewhat 'snowy'. This happened on a factory system OUT OF THE BOX. So I know this wasn't due to application software I loaded on top and I doubt very much it was a virus the system picked up.
Since this started I have done a full virus scan and also have reviewed the event logs after each fail and nothing in there is obvious. There's an 'unexpected reboot' message there from my forced power down. I've gone to nVidia to download the latest nForce 430 drivers which has not helped. It seems ahead of what MS is pushing as the version I have is dated 12/07 and the auto updates are telling me to pick up a 7/07 version. I've also loaded SP1 and all of the HP/MS updates a person can handle. Has anyone experienced this.
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Apr 18, 2008
I was reading the speed up boot time performance tutorial (by a now banned member, no less) and saw that it had an option to improve disk speed by enabling advanced performance for the disk. Is it wise to do this on an installed hard drive? I noticed the optimize disk option was already enabled on my C drive and was wondering if it would be a good idea to enable the advance performance option as well.I just don't want to lose information if I am forced to, say, hard boot the system when if it freezes up.
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Apr 11, 2008
I bought a new dell vostro about a month ago, pre-installed with windows vista home premium 32bit. All has been going well with it until Wednesday night when for some reason whilst using messenger the program froze, went light grey and a timer came up in place of the pointer.(i have a vague recollection of seeing a pop up regarding the power supply to the computer - not sure what it was) nothing else would work on the comp, ctrl/alt/del did not work so I couldn't force application to quit. Eventually just held power button until system rebooted. Since this first happened the computer continually freezes with no way of closing down programs, have tried a system restore, but even that process stalls and doesn't complete. Have tried uninstalling McAfee in case that was causing it but to no avail. I loaded up windows in safe mode which seemed to work fine, although the system restore was unavailable in safe mode. At the time it was downloading an 80mb vista update, which is yet to finish, again in safe mode the vista update was not running. The freezes occur with random programs, not just one particular one Anyone got any ideas of what the problem is and how to fix it, got a lot of uni work needing done outside of work hours and not having use of this computer is really annoying.
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Jul 28, 2008
I bought a Fujitsu siemans laptop for my son Amilo PI. When i try to download music /movies etc from various sites my laptop crashes or freezes every time .Ive updated vista but to no avail.
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Apr 2, 2010
I'm using HD from my old computer (XP) as an external drive on my Vista laptop. The HD has XP on it. When I power up it looks like the HD is trying to boot XP on top of my Vista and freezes the system. How can I avoid this attempted boot? Where should I place the jumper on the HD.
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Apr 2, 2009
I am trying to boot into my Windows Vista Operating System, and it seems to freeze before the Welcome screen appears, is there a way that I can fix, this, the problem started straight after I had uploaded some pics from my Digital camera, I had already scanned the hard drive and I only found trojan horse virus in it, which is only one virus, can there be any other way to fix this?
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Feb 26, 2009
Windows Vista freezes I have geforce 8600 graphics card. System works perfectly with 2 gb, but if I try to use 4 gb or 6 gb, i get graphic glithces and screen goes black / system freezes. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? It's driving me nuts
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May 26, 2008
This is about my fifth build, and it went great: loaded up the OS and updated all drivers (using only 2 GB RAM), started (cautiously) loading up all my software, taking care to only load software that had 64 bit driver support, as far as I could tell. I am a graphic designer and creative director, so I use Adobe CS3 and Office and game a little. Use Skype very frequently. First off, SoundBlaster had no 64 bit support (I have never had much confident in Creative), so I simply took out the card and thought I might wait or scratch it.
More importantly, the system freezes. Hangs. Stalls, what-have-you. Just stops and needs a hard reboot. Any sounds playing at the time would stutter like a broken cd. I tried many things and am not overclocking. Eventually, needing to get work done, I simply figured there wasn't enough 64 bit driver support and yesterday fresh installed the 32 bit Vista using the alternate DVD that came in the package. Unfortunately, the system is behaving in exactly the same way.
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Mar 23, 2008
After a fresh installation of Vista Home Premium, my pc freezes randomly. If i decide to wait it out it magically unfreezes but this is a constant habit. It leaves the pc clock frozen at the time of the freeze. Suprisingly it lets me play full screen games but nothing else. Reinstalled multiple times, downloaded all updates with no change. Perhaps my motherboard isnt compatible? or my graphics card is just dumb?
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Sep 3, 2009
I've an Asus f5sl laptop with Vista Home Premium (32bit) but it's been freezing on me lately. When I boot up, it gets to the black screen with the green bar but after a few seconds, the green bar freezes and I can't log in. Occasionally it boots up after around half an hour but then Vista periodically freezes for a few seconds before resuming (which is annoying when trying to write out something etc)
I don't see any problems in Safe Mode so is possibly a driver? I've updated all my drivers, completely updated using WIndows Update, ran antispyware, used System Restore etc. Only problem is; I've moved to a new country, and like a fool, I left my Vista start up disk back home. Which I would otherwise have tried.
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May 30, 2009
have been experiencing frequent crashes, freezes, and BSOD lately and after some research decided the video card/driver might be a likely culprit. ran memtest just prior to see if RAM might be the issue; no errors. uninstalled video driver; and was prompted to restart to finalize removal of old driver. however, the system now freezes on startup at the welcome screen when starting normally or in safe mode.
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Mar 23, 2008
After I log on my account on windows xp, the computer starts to load and then it freezes....the recent changes I made to the computer was two things; first I installed the computer game crysis and 2nd I installed a new nvidia driver for my geforce card, anyways the computer freezes totally so I can't uninstall or change anything and then I restart using the restart button and it all happens again.
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Aug 19, 2009
After booting up the computer the desktop freezes immediately. If it doesn't freeze up immediately I'll have some functionality, but minimal. I'll no longer have access to the internet (no network adapter present), can't run programs (they fail to open) or can't install programs/updates. I have even gotten a couple of Blue screen error messages such as: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
In safe mode with networking I do have access to the internet. When I try to download updates in safe mode I can't because Install shield will not work, or some other excuse. There are no restore points to restore to. There was a Windows Framework update on August 7th. I tried to uninstall it, but apparently it was never installed properly. No blue screens while in Safe Mode. I've been trying to problem solve this on my own, but with my limited computer repair skills I'm scared to try things.
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Sep 22, 2009
online backup installed an update on my extremely stable Vista Home Premium. It asked me to reboot and when I clicked reboot, the system froze up. Every time I boot, it will freeze within seconds of loading the desktop.
I would seriously love to get this fixed as I have reinstalled Vista 4x, the last being 18-months ago
How may I resolve OR troubleshoot this issue? I have done a restore point back 2 weeks, but thats as far as I can go without getting an error.
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Jun 18, 2008
I'm using XP Professional x64 now cause most things really work fine on XP x64. But I'd like to use Vista with 4GB RAM!
My hardware:
Asrock Alive xFire eSATA2
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ tray AM2 2x2,60GHz 2x512kB
4x 1024MB DDR2RAM Kingston PC667 CL5
XpertVision / Palit 512MB X1950GT Super PCIe
500GB 3,5" Samsung SpinPoint T166 HD501LJ SATA2 7200rpm
Sharkoon Silentstorm 120 SHA500-12A 500W ATX 2.0
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Jun 7, 2008
i'm running Vista Home Premium on my laptop, 2 gb ram & it freezes. It freezes more often when left alone for 10-20min. Sometimes when moving the mouse it freezes. Task mgr. will not open so i have to shut down system. At times i get a error message & my hd is being scanned.
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Mar 5, 2009
I am having problems with my new Vista Machine. Any game I play on it ranging from "Fable-The lost Chapters" to "Call of duty 5-World at War" all freeze. They freeze at random times, it is not constant. Every time It Freezes, I can't do anything but hard reset, also there are no error messages or BSOD. I have checked the ram with memtest and all sticks passed, I checked the ram's timings and voltages, they are set to what the manual and sticker says. I checked the temperatures,everything runs at around 32-40 degrees. I have updated every driver on my rig, and reinstalled Vista, but the problem persists.
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May 28, 2007
Today I was starting up my Custom Vista computer bought of Ebay as usual. The progress bar when starting that goes from left to right froze after liker 3 seconds. I restarted my PC using the button located on the actual computer. Then it prompted me to go into Safe Mode or Normal Mode. I went into normal mode and the same thing happened. I tried to restore my computer to an earlier date, which restored successfully, but it still freezes. I am now in Safe Mode with Networking and dont know how to get to Full Mode without it freezing.
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Aug 20, 2009
I just did a clean install of Vista ultimate x64. I'm having a problem, though. It seems to be very unstable when I'm starting up - if I try to open programs while the OS is still loading all my run-at-startup programs, it'll just lock up. That's not the biggest problem, though. For some reason, if I try to install ANYTHING (i.e. quicktime, my video drivers, the windows updates), the computer will install it until it gets to about 20-25% of the install, and then just slow down to a complete stop. Like, at first the progress bar won't advance. After that, the desktop icons won't highlight when you mouse over them. Then you can't move windows (minimize, maximize, etc.), and finally, you can't move your mouse.
I just had vista ultimate x64 working on my computer a few days ago, and it was stable. I had to reinstall it because I downloaded window's updates, and there's one that (after some research) I found can cause some computers to not be able to boot. I suffered that problem.
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Aug 29, 2008
PC1 Vista Ultimate, main PC for file sharing. PC2 Vista Ultimate, "sees" PC1, can access shared folders on PC1. PC3 Mac running OSX, "sees" PC1, can access shared folders on PC1. As soon as any shared file (not folder) is accessed on PC1 from PC2 or PC3, PC1 freezes and needs to be restarted. All PC's show up on each others network maps. If a file on PC1 is opened, copied, or a file is sent to PC1, it freezes.
This happens with or without firewall running. My setup intention is to have PC1 hosting all the shared files and PC2 and PC3 can grab files off PC1 as well as put files on PC1. This is my first attempt at networking so bear with me. I have all computers talking to each other, just PC1 freezes during and shared file attempt.
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Jun 23, 2008
My Vista Ultimate-SP1 PC continuously freezes for a few seconds, it freezes then I hear a "click" noise coming from my hard drives and it works again for a while...after a couple of minutes or even less it happens again.. I have all the Vista updates and all my software and drivers up to date, I have already unsuccessfully tried everything and I' don't know how to solve this. I have not reformatted to reinstall Vista, as I learnt searching Google that other Vista users are suffering an identical problem even after several clean Vista Installs.
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Jun 30, 2009
For a at least a month now my computer has been freezing about five minutes after starting the boot-up sequence (as in 5 minutes after hitting the power button). No BSoD or anything. Just a freeze. I have tried many different things to troubleshoot. First let me tell you my specs and then I'll tell you what I've already tried so far.
Running Windows Vista x64 SP1 now here's what I've tried so far: initially tried system restore to a point before the problem started scanned for viruses and malware using Avira, Trendmicro online scan, Avast, Superantispyware and Malwarebytes upgraded my motherboard's BIOS returned all settings to stock upped the videocard fan speeds using Rivatuner replaced the video card ran chkdsk searched google endlessly for solutions I may be forgetting other things.
I'll let you know as hey are proposed. Usually I can finally get it to boot after several tries and I can play games normally and whatnot. Just now I was finally able to get it to boot on the 5th try. Another symptom that may or may not be related is that sometimes it freezes when you attempt to do something like attach a photo to a web-based email or upload photos to an online photo site. I built this system myself and I really hope I can get this fixed. I think my wife may be losing faith in me! Let me know any other info I can post that might help. My technical proficiency is pretty high.
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