Constant freezing with seemingly no reason

gregrocker said:

Until then you can Clean Up Factory Bloatware.

Reading through this now, thanks.

Well, just got through watching about an hour of streaming video with no problems. Doesn't necessarily mean problem solved, but it's definitely a good sign. I'll give a few more tests over the next few days and hopefully report back with some good news.

Dan33185 said:

FliGi7 said:

How about we check the obvious of a hard disk failing. Failing hard drives can often cause the system to randomly freeze up. Open My Computer, right click on your C drive, then Tools, and Check Disk. You will probably need to reboot the system to check the disk for errors.

Also, when you have the freezing, is there a correlated CPU/process spike?

No problems were found with a disk check. Not sure about a CPU spike, is there a way to go back and check that once it unfreezes?

You'd have to be keeping an eye out on the task manager during the time it is freezing. It's just a realtime view, not historical.

Had my first freeze in a few days, it was only about 20 seconds, but still enough to cause a problem. Any more suggestions? I hate to say it, but it's probably going to end up with my bringing it into the shop, was hoping to avoid it as long as possible, but I have no idea what else to do.

Have you checked your memory?

http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20...+-4.20.iso.zip

Download and burn that to a CD. Boot from the CD and let it run through at least 3 iterations of testing.

FliGi7 said:

Have you checked your memory?

http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20...+-4.20.iso.zip

Download and burn that to a CD. Boot from the CD and let it run through at least 3 iterations of testing.

Did that a few nights ago, no problems found. But that program isn't necessarily 100% correct though I suppose, it could still be a memory problem?

It's possible, but not particularly likely if that didn't find any errors after 3 rounds or so.

Keep working through the Troubleshooting steps I gave you to watch for repeat errors in logs, look for cued Solutions, maintain a Clean Boot, etc.

I'd also stress test your RAM overnight with memtest.

When you say "freezing" does everything freeze, even mouse for a small amount of time then unfreeze?

Run this for a while and note if you have any lag spikes. It can tell you if a driver is causing it:

DPC Latency Checker

event3horizon said:

When you say "freezing" does everything freeze, even mouse for a small amount of time then unfreeze?

Run this for a while and note if you have any lag spikes. It can tell you if a driver is causing it:

DPC Latency Checker

Everything freezes. Even the sound, if I'm watching a video, the sound will just turn into a buzzing noise until it unfreezes. I'll have to run these tests tonight as I'm off to work right now, but will report back later on.