PC Hanging/Freezing at various loads etc

Jammyc · 04 Jun 2013

Hi guys,

Wondering if any of ye had any suggestions/advice.

I have an old PC that I have run 32bit 7 Professional on with no problems before.

It has since become troublesome. At random times, intervals it hangs/freezes indefinitely. I've left it for ~2 hours and still nothing, so it always needs to be force shut down.

I've checked error logs and there are a persistent stream of Critical events with Kernel Power 41 - system was shut down incorrectly. I'm not sure if this was the root of the problem or if it was because of the forced shut down I did.

In addition, there are a series of minidumps showing errors involving ntktnlpa.exe and associates it back to MagicISO drivers. I have since uninstalled this program but I'm still getting the intermittent hanging/freezing.

I've attached the .zip file as requested in the forum sticky. Apologies for my lack of knowledge but I would really appreciate any help you could give on this.

Many thanks,

Jammy

koolkat77 · 04 Jun 2013

I'm sorry to say that we could not help with counterfeit installs of windows.

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# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
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# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
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# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
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# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
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# For example:
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#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#	127.0.0.1       localhost
#	::1             localhost
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