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Random Freezing
Here's my setup.
I've been facing an issue that is driving me absolutely nuts.
My computer seems to freeze/crash randomly.
I'm not quite sure it's frozen or crashed...because everything hardware wise is still running (fans, lights etc) but the mouse will not move and pressing the windows key does nothing.
Now, in my power scheme I've disabled "USB selective suspend setting", I have "Never" under all the "Sleep" options. Hard disk is set to never turn off. "Link State Power Management" under PCI express is Off. System cooling policy is enabled, as I don't quite understand what that's for. None of my hardware devices are allowed to "put the computer to sleep".
So, if it's crashing I'm not seeing anything in the Event Viewer about it other than "The previous system shutdown at 4:25:27 PM on 12/28/2010 was unexpected". Checking the Event Viewer at and around 4:25:27 PM shows nothing out of the ordinary - however there is one error that is in the Viewer a lot (however it is nowhere near the time that the Event Viewer claims the system crashed):
"The following fatal alert was generated: 10. The internal error state is 10." stemming from the "Schannel" source.
I've googled, googled, googled and then googled some more. There is no one answer to this.
One common theme I'm noticing is Zone Alarm being a clients of some of the people that are posting about this problem. I run it, always have. But if it's the culprit, I'll remove it.
Anyway, after more reading today, I disabled Windows Defender - there's been mention that perhaps there's a conflict with ZA.
Now, I've yet to have this happen while I've been at the computer. It's always been when I've come home from work, or been gone away for a few hours.
While typing this, I thought of setting my wallpaper to change every 5 minutes. That way if it's sleeping/freezing or something I can narrow it down. However, beyond that I am at my complete wits end.
Does anyone have any thoughts, ideas, plans? Experienced this before? I spent quite a bit of money piecing this machine together...I'd hate to take my Sawzall to its innards.