windows 7 hangs...unresponsive for hours

[filskyz]

Hello,
About a week ago, the OS on my Dell Inspiron 1545 began to hang on a daily basis, becoming unresponsive for hours. I have resorted to shutting the power off manually. As I am a novice user with limited expertise, I was wondering if anyone can help.

I have attached snips from the events I think caused the hang from the event logger. If there is additional information you need, I will be more than happy to supply it. It's becoming a big inconvenience.

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[zigzag3143]

Hello,
About a week ago, the OS on my Dell Inspiron 1545 began to hang on a daily basis, becoming unresponsive for hours. I have resorted to shutting the power off manually. As I am a novice user with limited expertise, I was wondering if anyone can help.

I have attached snips from the events I think caused the hang from the event logger. If there is additional information you need, I will be more than happy to supply it. It's becoming a big inconvenience.


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Hi and welcome

I believe it is DEP. goto control panel>system control panel>advanced settings>performance>DEP. what is it set to? is it grayed out?
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Ken J+

 

[filskyz]

I'm not sure what you mean by "grayed out". The first option is checked. View attachment 41421

 

[chev65]

There are some very recent driver updates for your Dell inspiron 1545 that may help with your problem.
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[filskyz]

There are some very recent driver updates for your Dell inspiron 1545 that may help with your problem.
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I have installed recent drivers that is applicable to my system. Still, the problem persists

 

[mosterholt]

No one has any more on this?

 

[filskyz]

Nope, no one has been able to help me here

I eventually got something called processexplorer. its essentially a task manager type program but gives more detailed information. The problem is still there, but using this program i am able to manage it a bit better

 

[mosterholt]

For ours, turns out we had a bad HDD from DELL. Sucks, but they sent us a new one and everything works fine now.