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Windows keeps 'freezing', might not be caused by ram (only)
Hi,
A few months ago my laptop stoped working, i had to force shut down. It didnt boot to windows, so I reinstalled windows on it. Then i found out that my hdd was defective so i borrowed my friends hdd. I installed windows again, and now everything works fine, expect for one thing, which i cant tell exactly, and i would need some help on that because i'm out of ideas.
So what's the issue. My system keeps freezing, in a way that i can interact with windows, alt+tab around, move the mouse and such, but if i e.g open a new tab in Chrome, and open some page e.g facebook, it will show the small loading circle, and open facebook after all this freezing mess is gone. Now this keeps happening like every 20-30 minutes in windows, and more often in games.
What could be the source of the problem? Obviously the RAM. I checked both of my rams with memtest86, and it did indeed show errors. I have two ram sticks, one of which is faulty and the other isnt. So we are cool, arent we? I should buy a new ram and ill be fine. Well, not really.
The real issue is that the problem occurs even if i only use my ram that doesnt have errors based on memtest.(actually, this thing happens even more often when only 1 ram stick is plugged in.)
-I'll attach photos of cpu-z's ram tabs, im not an expert, but i think that everything is fine here.
(pictures are taken with the 'good' ram stick being put in only, but cpuz shows exactly the same things when the other one is plugged in as well)
-I cleaned the connections of rams, that cant be an issue either.
-I installed all the drivers, expect that this program called DriverAgent thinks that my Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller's driver isnt installed, while device manager says that it is.
I hope you can give me some advice, because i'm kinda lost here right now.
Dan
Edit: obvious solution would be to put these ram sticks to an other laptop, but that's not an option for me right now.
Edit2: oops, i went noobtard, didnt post specs.
Here they are:
win 7 64 bit
amd radeon hd7400M series video card
amd athlon ii p360 dualcore processor
4gb ram (2gb - 2gb) (nanya kingston ddr3 1333mhz)
this is a packard bell en tk 81 laptop