Seven locks up after an hour or so idle

[Funnycat]

This happens everytime I leave my laptop downloading something, Seven just locks up and freezes (I can't do anything, be it move the mouse or ctrl+alt+del), when I leave it and take a look after a while it's already frozen, so I've never caught the locking up.
Any ideas?

 

[smarteyeball]

Have you checked the event logs to see if it's picked anything up? Checked the problem history?

(type problem in the search bar and select view problem history)

 

[Funnycat]

In problem history all I found were unexpected shutdowns (I killed the power when I saw it froze), if you want I can post the event log for 2AM-11AM, but it's pretty large (3mb). I'll skim through it now.

 

[Barman58]

Hello Funnycat,

you may want to check your power setting to see if this could be relelated to an attempt to go into sleep mode - this has caused quite a few issues since early vista days - Check out he tutorials / threads here for Sleep issues you may also want to check on Vista Forums as it has been discussed extensively here

 

[Funnycat]

Hello Funnycat,

you may want to check your power setting to see if this could be relelated to an attempt to go into sleep mode - this has caused quite a few issues since early vista days - Check out he tutorials / threads here for Sleep issues you may also want to check on Vista Forums as it has been discussed extensively here

Yeah, that's the very first thing I checked - it's not the power settings. The power plan is high perfomance and it's configured not to go into sleep mode/hibernation/turn off display/hard drive. Also I tried to manually go into sleep mode and hibernation - they work as designed.

 

[Barman58]

Hi funnycat,

as this is download related it may be worthwhile to check that the power settings on the network adaptor in the device manager are not set to allow windows to shut of the adaptor to save power No reason why this would cause a screen blackout but is something that needs eliminating

what happens if you just leave the machine idle (not downloading) ?

 

[Airbot]

And is it something specific you're trying to download or anything? Have you cleared all your temp files/cache. I'd run a through scan with an AV just to eliminate that possibility.

 

[chev65]

Downloading or moving files around in Windows 7 seems to stress the memory controller more than it did in Vista. I had to raise my MCP,FSB and Ram voltage to get my system to be stable when moving files around on Windows 7.

The same system has Vista on another partition and had no such problems moving files around. Others have had the same type of problems which a voltage correction fixed. The other thread about this is around here somewhere.

If you have access to these settings in bios you might want to bump up those voltages just a notch and see if it helps. Thats all I can think of for now.

 

[Funnycat]

Barman58, Done, thanks
Airbot, nothing specific, just a couple of large .AVIs
chev65, There are no such options in this laptop's BIOS

Thanks guys, I'll leave it idle overnight and tell you the results.

 

[Funnycat]

Mmkay, reporting in - overnight idle went successfully, without crashes, freezes, etc, in the morning the system was fully operational. Maybe it's uTorrent that does this, I'll try to leave it on.

 

[Airbot]

Sounds good Funnycat.

 

[Funnycat]

Yup

 

[nikon858]

any work around or settings to change in utorrent to stop this? or shall I just switch torrent programs for now??

 

[Tews]

Hi nikon858 and Welcome to the forum...

Would you please start a new thread that is specific to your problem... Your current question is to vague to address ... Please take time to fill out your system specs, as they're some members who wont try to help you without them...

Thanks....

 

[nikon858]

sure, I'll do that now...I figured I'd just post in this thread since my problems are identical to the OP's

 

[WurliTzerwilly]

I've had a problem for a while with the 64bit Ultimate edition. It would lock up and you could move the mouse pointer, but nothing else worked and a full reset was the only way out.
I tried all of the fixes that have been suggested on various forums, including disabling reporting back to Microsoft developers, but it persisted.
I seem to have finally tamed it by disabling screen blanking. I've left the screen saver running, but no other shutdowns of anything and it's now stabilised. It's no big deal, as I have a KVM switch and I simply switch to another PC which can blank its screen.

The mobo is an Asus P5QC running a Quad Core processor with 8Gb ram and an ATI graphics card with a fully Windows 7 driver downloaded from the AMD site.

Regards,

Alan.

 

[nikon858]

I'll try that, thanks.

 

[carlitobklyn]

I've had a problem for a while with the 64bit Ultimate edition. It would lock up and you could move the mouse pointer, but nothing else worked and a full reset was the only way out.
I tried all of the fixes that have been suggested on various forums, including disabling reporting back to Microsoft developers, but it persisted.
I seem to have finally tamed it by disabling screen blanking. I've left the screen saver running, but no other shutdowns of anything and it's now stabilised. It's no big deal, as I have a KVM switch and I simply switch to another PC which can blank its screen.

The mobo is an Asus P5QC running a Quad Core processor with 8Gb ram and an ATI graphics card with a fully Windows 7 driver downloaded from the AMD site.

Regards,

Alan.

I have exactly the same problem. I've found that if left for long enough, usually it will come back. Sometimes its a full 15 minutes but it will unfreeze. I hate to have to turn off screen blanking but I also hate having to force restart on a regular basis. Anyone have any ideas on this?

 

[nikon858]

I've never waited long enough to see if it would come back...I know the computer is till alive though, since my crystalfontz lcd that runs as a service continues to respond....If it happens again I'll try leaving it to see if it comes back.

 

[WurliTzerwilly]

I have exactly the same problem. I've found that if left for long enough, usually it will come back. Sometimes its a full 15 minutes but it will unfreeze. I hate to have to turn off screen blanking but I also hate having to force restart on a regular basis. Anyone have any ideas on this?

I never left it long enough to find out. I was always in too much of a panic to use it.
It does appear to be something to do with screen blank/idling.

Regards,

Alan.