A general term used when a computer or device becomes unresponsive to any kind of user input. May be caused by hardware *or* software reasons.
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2010 Mac Pro beachballing/freezing
My machine is a 2010 Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 6-core intel xeon with 32 GBs of ram running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Just the other day it started to beach ball after about an hour of use. It doesn't make any ...
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Macbook Pro Randomly Freezing
Here is the console log where I believe the freeze is occurring. This freeze happens randomly with no obvious correlation with applications, websites, etc. I recently upgraded ram from 4gb to 8gb, but ...
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PC crashes after moving
When plugging/unplugging something from the audio section of the MoBo, the PC freezes, without even the BSOD. Any idea of the reason?
I got Windows 8, and here's the complete report of my hardware ...
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Is there a way to stop IE from hanging when opening saved pages short of turning off the phishing filter?
A quick web search turned up the improbable fix of turning off one's IE phishing filter ...
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Random Freezing Windows 7…Readyboost?
After I leave my computer idle for about 15 minutes and come back, everything just doesn't respond. It takes 1 minute to close the browser and when loading a webpage it responds with "page does not ...
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Adium freezes on Macbook pro OSX 10.8.3 Mountain lion after screen lock
Whenever I unlock my Macbook Pro screen, Adium version 1.5.6 freezes. Each time I have to force quit and then restart it. There has been a lot of crash reports on Adium forum but do not see any ...
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Chrome freezes when I search facebook in google.com, using chrome
I search facebook in google.com, in chrome and the results appear instantly. But, chrome freezes for 5-6 seconds after the results are displayed. This happens ALL the time. What could be the reason ...
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Window 7 Event Log Freezing. How to Fix?
When you open the event log, it freeze for several seconds. and a prompt comes out say it's not responding. but if you ignore it and wait for several seconds, it will resume normal. And you will found ...
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Initializing Places box in Microsoft Word 2010 freezes PC when using Save As Dropdown
I have a user running 32-Bit XP with Office 2010 installed. When they go to Save As and then use the dropdown box at the top of the Save As box to navigate to a new place/drive a box briefly appears ...
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Kaspersky Freezes my computer. 2 million page faults [closed]
What should I check to find the problem? I have 2GB RAM free when I check task manager. Kaspersky is not performing scanning during the period.
When look at task manager, it only shows around 270K ...
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Freezing in normal mode (clean mode) not in safe mode. Also HDD problems
My laptop is acting very strange. If I boot up windows 7 in normal mode, I pretty much can't do anything without it hanging. For example, trying a simple task such as opening 'My Computer' or opening ...
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Troubleshooting system lockup?
So, I have Fedora 18 x64, and sometimes it locks up. Like, perfectly frozen, beyond a kernel panic, no flashing lights, no response to input, it just stops processing entirely.
Usually, this happens ...
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My pc gives me freeze frames, but not when TaskManager is active
I have a strange problem, and I dont know the cause. but i have a simple solution.
I use my PC primarily to do 3D rendering, so it's quite good (Core i7, 8GB, 650GTX, Windows7-64bit, etc.).
But, i ...
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Regularly re-appearing Intermittent 2s freezes (Intel i5, NVidia GF 670, Vertex4 SSD, Win8-64)
My system is as follows:
CPU: Intel i5
GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 670
SSD: OCZ Vertex 4
From time to time, usually after prolonged use, my computer starts freezing. It does not crash, nor freeze ...
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ThinkPad T430s SSD freezing after started
My ThinkPad T430s notebook with Windows 8 64 bit always freezes after start. It takes about 30s to 1 min until it freezes. If I disable the mini SSD(15G) in my notebook, it will work well. But every ...
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Debug mouse freezing on Ubuntu
I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my work desktop for a few months. Yesterday, I started having issues with my USB mouse.
Whenever I type for a while, and I try to move the mouse afterwards, it ...
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How to know which driver or kernel module prevents process to be killed?
Sometimes I have processes which I can't kill. Process Explorer, Task Manager and others say that "Access denied". I was told that this can be because kernel driver has a bug or something.
How to ...
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Do seagate 3 TB hard disk need special setup before usage?
Is it mandatory to install special seagate drivers
http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/beyond-2tb/
if you use a 3 TB SATA disk over external eSATA expressCard Adapter?
I have an old and a new ...
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Windows 7 hanging after a few minutes of use
My windows 7 partition (other being mac) has been "hanging" recently. I put hanging in quotes because it's not completely hanging.
Here is what happen. I boot it up and I'll open a program or run ...
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TaskMgr.exe stops working allways
First of all, I'm currently using a Swedish version om MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1, so if my translations of error msgs and such are incorrect, I apologize.
To the problem:
Some time ago my ...
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What is the Cause of Random Freezing/Blue Screen/Restarting?
Problem: Freezing/blue screen/restarting happens randomly on my Desktop PC. Sometimes it just freezes suddenly. Sometimes a freezing, then a blue screen. Sometimes a blue screen, followed with a ...
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Asus Xonar DSX causing freezes
I have an Asus Xonar DSX sound card installed in my system that has been giving me grief lately, and Asus support and Google searches have been no help in figuring out what's wrong with it. The ...
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Windows 7 hangs if I open apps that connect to internet
Windows 7 hangs every time I open any application that connects to internet. Chrome, IE, Outlook, VLC Player all have the same problem. This problem started appearing only since yesterday.
Its ...
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Snow Leopard 10.6.8 — Short freezes all the time
I have a Macbook white (2010) and I'm facing an annoying thing since I'd bought it.
I've already re-installed the system some times, but the fact is that I got short freezes for 2-3 seconds when ...
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HP EliteBook 8540w doesn't start with GPT disc attached
I have an HP EliteBook 8540w but since I attached a 4 TB external GPT disc drive, it does not start anymore.
(It freezes during the BIOS startup.)
When I detach the disc, everything works fine.
I ...
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bash autocompletion is slow, freezing my desktop
sometimes when working with a custom kernel, pressing tab in the bash autocompletes at a horrible pace. It freezes the whole desktop. Then comes back after awhile.
This is the only quirk that I've ...
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Macbook's keyboard gets hanged
I bought a used macbook which does not have some screws of its casing. The buttons of the keyboard stop working at times. Only the power button works. When I restart, it starts to work fine. What ...
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Windows 8: File transfer freezing from USB HDD to internal HDD
I bought a new Toshiba P850 laptop with Windows 8 OS and a 1 TB Toshiba USB HDD. I copied all my files from my old laptop to USB HDD successfully. Then I started to move from USB HDD to my new laptop. ...
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My PC keeps freezing while gaming
If i'm gaming (like BioShock Infinite) for 10 minutes, my pc freezes. This means that the screen freezes, the usb ports go off and the only way to shut it down is by pressing the reset button.
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Computer freezes for a second or two, if there is sound playing, it buzzes while it's frozen
So this has been happening for a while now, but recently it has been more frequent, not sure why.
Sometimes when I am playing games (Guild Wars 2 is the most recent example I've got) or watching ...
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How can i troubleshoot windows desktop locked up / freezed up?
Sometimes my desktop freezes. All icons go white and accept no action. If I go to Task Manager, kill explorer.exe and restart it, it go back to normal.
How can I troubleshoot this, to know what is ...
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Windows 8 Right-click (context) menu hang
Recently I reintalled Windows 8. All software that I installed on fresh OS is up to date and Windows 8 compatible.
When I try to open context menu explorer was crashing. I used CCleaner to fix ...
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random freezing / shutdown
Apologies for the length of this question...
I built a new system some months ago, retaining only the GPU and power supply from the old system and have been having intermittent issues with it.
My ...
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When I play a video, the video gets pixelated and laptop freezes. Is it the video card?
I'm using a Sony laptop with:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Intel Core i5-2450M
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 410M
I run the laptop almost all day continuously. Recently, when I was watching a video ...
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Stuck Linux - Suspected failing HD
In the last 3 days, my Ubuntu box got stuck about 10 times, By stuck I mean everything froze, and the only way to restart was from the button on the case.
Today it froze about 10 times, and I have ...
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Accessing network share freezes computer
I have two computers, one Windows Vista SP2 that hosts a network share folder, and a Windows XP SP3 netbook that access this share. When I try to access the share on the XP computer, Explorer (and ...
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Computer suddenly dies; screen displays weird flickering lines, then restarts
I've been having this terrible problem for a little while and just managed to get a picture of 'dead screen' for the first time and I am posting it to seek help.
Randomly, at irregular intervals ...
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Dell Optiplex 790 - Windows XP 32 bit
I have this PC at work. Win-XP Professional Version 2002 with SP3 on a Dell Optiplex 790. It has Intel i7 quadcore, 3.3 GHz. 3GB RAM. Hard disk is a IDE ATA based disk. Only extra device I have is a ...
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Windows explorer “not responding” with right-click in windows 8
I am finding that my Windows Explorer is "Not Responding" whenever I attempt to right-click either a drive or any folder in any directory in Windows 8. I have to restart the windows explorer process ...
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Debian testing hangs for 180s on boot
For a while now, my NAS running Debian testing with arch x86_64 constantly hangs for exactly 180s during boot after it has detected all hard drives. I unfortunately ran out of ideas what the cause ...
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What could cause my Mac's hard drive to occasionally stop responding?
I have a ~5 year old Mac Pro with two internal hard drives. The primary drive (a 1TB Hitachi) contains a Mountain Lion partition (10.8.2) and a Time Machine partition. The other drive contains a ...
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How do I fix low-graphics mode freeze?
I removed windows and installed Ubuntu.
On start-up I get the message :
the system is running on low-graphics mode.
I click OK and Ubuntu asks me what to do :
-run in low graphics mode
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Windows 7 Recorded TV Explorer Freezes
In my "Recorded TV" library, in which I store the movies that Windows Media Center record from my TV tuner card, I have about 400 movies (.dvr-ms and .wtv files), almost 2.4 TB of data. When I try to ...
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Hang when choosing File->Print; UI thread blocked in ntdll.dll!ZwAlpcSendWaitReceivePort+0xa
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Key problem: Choosing File->Print never reaches the print dialog.
Relevant symptom: Devices and Printers takes much longer than it should (2 minutes) to come up.
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Computer only running with live CD
The issue:
When using the computer for a little while, it just freezes. The time that it takes varies from 10 minutes to an hour and half, but never longer than 2 hours.
When it freezes I have to ...
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Kernel Event ID 41. My system keeps shutting off during games
here's hoping you guys can help me. This is a homebuilt system I put together myself. This is the build (I got a 7870 instead of a 7850, though):
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/eZgE
This error has ...
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Windows 7 is stuck at “Starting Windows” when I attempt to boot computer
Basically, whenever I turn on my computer, it gets to the Starting Windows phase and just stays there. The startup animation still plays, yet it gets nowhere.
I have tried booting into safe mode, ...
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Windows 8 hangs at splash screen during startup
I recently formatted my SSD and installed a fresh copy of Windows 8 64bit. However, when restarting or turning the pc off and on, windows will hang at the splash screen such that the rotating icon ...
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Pc keeps shutting down for the first 10-20 minutes
My desktop pc keeps shutting down/freezing/rebooting itself (even in BIOS) in the first 10-20 minutes of activity, after that time it works properly.
I looked into the windows event register but ...
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My computer freezes all the time and shows that the hard drive is spinning at 100%, what the hell is it doing? [closed]
I have a ACER travelmate laptop. I use it all the time and play games on it that I have installed. It is a fast computer but recently it keeps on freezing, getting slower, lagging, and slower frame ...
