Solved Windows freezing during certain applications

[joe666manson]

I had thought that I fixed this issue of my computer freezing randomly by reinstalling my graphics card. not the case. it now freezes when I use youtube, or when I listen to music files in wmp. can anyone help me figure this out. I have reinstalled my gpu driver for a second time and ive tried to disable flash enhancements but couldn't see where to disable it. and ive reinstalled my wmp and reindexed the library.

 

[Mellon Head]

Just so that we can rule out a bad memory location, could you run Memtest86+, please?

Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool

Let it run for several passes, overnight is best. That will tell us if you have a RAM issue and we can go from there.

 

[joe666manson]

will do as soon as my wmp is done re-indexing the library. I also installed the previous gpu driver. im going to see if that takes care of it as well.

 

[joe666manson]

uninstalling and reinstalling some drivers to see if that fixes first. also I left it on while I was at work, the screen saver kicked in and was froze.

 

[andrew129260]

1.) Do you have the latest drivers for your hardware?

ASRock > 990FX Extreme9

2.) Do you have the latest graphics drivers?

Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

3.) You can also try running a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html

4.) You can also disable startup items to see if a program is causing the issue:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html

 

[joe666manson]

i reinstalled a new k-lite codec pack, adobe shockwave and flash player, and i reinstalled the latest graphics driver from evga. i was able to watch two yotube videos yesterday with no problem. I haven't tried playing any media through wmp yet. I will do as soon as I get home from work.

 

[joe666manson]

just froze while using aimp3 player. running memcheck now.

 

[joe666manson]

just did chkdisk and nothing, where do I go for the memory check?

 

[andrew129260]

Click start, rb: type memory and click the top result windows memory diagnostic. Click restart now.

 

[joe666manson]

just finished with no errors, im running 3 passes on my system with sisoft Sandra right now. getting ready to chuck this thing out a window., also I went to me task manager, resources, and it shows absolutely nothing (meaning no info at all)

 

[joe666manson]

do you think my usb 3.0 driver could be throwing everything off? I used the etron one that came with the board.

 

[joe666manson]

heres an attaschement of what is going on so far

 

[joe666manson]

I think I got it. I uninstalled update (KB2541014). I just listened to an hour of music from my c drive and about an hour of music from my 3tb external 3.0 with no problem. I did notice that wmp uses a lot of % of processor, about 30%. so im using aimp3, which uses about 5-10%. ill post later to see if anything else changes.

 

[joe666manson]

its been a while and no freezing with youtube or wmp. except wmp lags too much, so im now using media monkey gold membership, now i have no lag time with my media. thank you everyone for the help and suggestions