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Freeze in Windows 7
Hi....just recently found this place and have been reading the forum threads etc, .......looks a great place.
Hope I'm posting in the correct place.
I hope someone can help with a problem I've been having with a new PC with Windows 7
The PC freezes about twice a day on average. Mouse/keyboard stops working.....I'm usually doing nothing but looking at a web page,in fact one day I was away in another room and when I came back the PC had rebooted.
Anyway, after about 2 minutes the PC shuts down and reboots into a black screen with white writing saying that Windows had a problem and shut down to save data. It asks if I want to start in Safe/normal etc and then I start it normally and a box appears saying that "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown. A problem caused Windows to stop working correctly and that a solution will be sent if possible"
I'm not holding my breath for that!
In the Action Centre there are two messages regarding the Video Card......one says that's it's closed 27 times and the other says 5 times!
This is maybe my problem???
I've looked in Device Manager and there are no new drivers and it says that things are working OK.
I've been into Safe Mode and run chk dsk and saw no problems there.
Task manager won't come up when the freeze happens.
I realize that as it's new I could return it but apart from this prob. it's working fine and I've installed all the prgs I use and tweaked it to work as I like it (thanks to your columns)
Any ideas welcome....thanks.
One more freeze: screen said 'Driver Power State failure'
First time I've seen that one. Help!