Questions tagged [freeze]
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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How do I troubleshoot a Windows 7 freeze or slowness? [duplicate]
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What are the first steps for diagnosing a slow machine?
I have a new pc with windows 7 which freezes randomly. I hit every single key on the keyboard and it works again. Is ...
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How to diagnose computer lockups and freezes?
I built a desktop computer a couple years back with the following specs:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 2.5GHz 6 MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor BX80580Q9300
Motherboard: EVGA 122-...
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How do I troubleshoot hardware issues related to a computer freeze/crash?
What are some common guidelines and issues related to hardware being the issue of a computer crash?
What should I look for and how do I troubleshoot these problems?
What are some tools that are ...
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How to diagnose repeated freezing of Windows 7 (comes back alive for a few seconds)
I installed Windows 7 in a 3-year-old machine. It installed successfully, took all drivers and running great, but every 5-6 minutes it freezes for a few seconds... 30 seconds to 1 minute, and then it ...
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How do I create a memory dump of my computer freeze or crash?
As a lot of us encounter freezes or crashes, I am wondering how do I manually initiate a computer to freeze in order to create a memory dump to view and diagnose any issues that may be involved with ...
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Why do damaged hard drives freeze the entire system?
Why does a hard drive which is known to have bad blocks (verified in HDTune and HDDScan), freezes down my entire system?
It is not the OS drive; it is attached to another SATA port, and I'm trying to ...
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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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How do I troubleshoot computer dumps?
Once I have a dump of a computer crash/freeze, what are some tools and steps to take in order to troubleshoot crash based off of the dump itself?
I am looking for tools to isolate what processes or ...
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how to log the performance of all processes in windows 7? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the proper way of debugging a slow Windows installation?
how to log the performance of all processes in windows 7?
basically i want the information in task manager to ...
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Why does my Windows 7 PC / SSD drive keep freezing?
I have a ~1 yr old PC with a primary SSD hard drive. I notice quite often that the PC will freeze for 30secs to several minutes, displaying the "Spinning blue wheel" mouse icon during this period. ...
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Why does Windows still have the BSOD on Ctrl+Scroll+Scroll "feature"?
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While Windows XP came out I heard about a testing feature that existed to manually cause a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I also heard this was supposed to be removed in XP ...
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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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How to stop Firefox on an SSD from freezing when using the search box or submitting a form?
Firefox usually freezes for about a second whenever I search for something from the toolbar search box, when submitting a form, or when clearing the search box history. I suspect it has something to ...
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Vertex 3 with Asus P8P67 Pro (B3) locks up
And by 'locks up' I mean completely locks up. Even the numlock light won't toggle.
This happens at completely random times.
I have updated the BIOS of the MoBo and the firmware of the SSD numerous ...
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SSD and Netbook - freezing during I/O
I have a netbook (Dell Inspiron mini 10) that I recently upgraded to an SSD (Plextor PX-256M3). The netbook has 1 GB of RAM (non-upgradable), and just the simple "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE ...
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Windows 7 Freezes (No BSOD)
It looks like Windows 7 (x64) froze on me at 8:30AM this morning (I found it like this almost 12 hours later). No blue screen, just frozen. It looks like the screen was a darker than normal, almost ...
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System freezes immediately on suspending, where do I investigate?
I've just tried to suspend to RAM (i.e. sleep) my newly installed Xubuntu 19.10 machine, a Lenovo S340 Ideapad with a replaced SSD. Upon pressing suspend while logged in, the system freezes instantly. ...
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Excel freezes when copying / cutting to paste elsewhere
When cutting/copying some cells to paste them into another sheet/page, sometimes Excel freezes/locks up and fades out. At the top toolbar it says in brackets "not responding".
Eventually, I must ...
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What do do when Linux gui freezes
I'm running Gnome with compiz in Ubuntu 10.04. Sometimes the gui will freeze. I can move the mouse, but I can't interact with programs. The only thing I can do is go to a terminal window with Alt+Ctrl+...
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Windows 7 running slowly with low CPU usage and memory
I have a relatively new (under 2 yrs old) Windows 7 machine. It has 9GB of RAM, and an i7 core CPU (930 @ 2.8GHz w/ 8 CPUs). After about 8 months since a clean install, I noticed my computer was ...
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Why would Thunderbird regularly hang for 10 seconds
I've been using the Thunderbird e-mail client for years on three different operating systems: XP, Vista, Windows 7.
On all of these operating systems, it has always had the problem of e.g. I'll be ...
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Hung process in Windows: Is there any way to see why?
I tried to print a doc in word, and word froze. Is there any way for me to see what resource it's waiting for?
I'm using windows XP and word 2007 (though I imagine the answer doesn't depend on the ...
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Computer unstable at lower temperatures
My computer is playing some strange joke at me, and I'm at a loss.
Everybody knows that hot temperatures causes many components to become unstable and even cause damage. When I built this machine, I ...
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Windows media player gives error "Server execution failed" after trying to play file
Every once in a while when I try to play a file in WMP it'll hang for about 10 seconds, pop up an error saying "server execution failed." If try again it usually works. Any suggestions?
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Help diagnosing a "freezing" problem
Short description: I bought a new computer a couple months ago. My problem is that every now and then, my computer "freezes up". However, if doesn't freeze for good. After a couple of minutes it comes ...
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After installing Windows 10 version 1803 (April 2018 Update), screen freezes
I have a strange situation. I had recent fresh install of Windows 10 version 1803 and I also tried to upgrade some of my drivers with new releases from the official website. I always disable Automatic ...
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Why might a Macbook Pro be freezing on resume from sleep?
My Macbook Pro (17" 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.4.11) often locks up when it resumes from sleep. I usually know I'm in trouble when the display brightness doesn't adjust right away. Then it ...
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How to find what is causing Windows 7 Desktop pause
Windows 7 64 bit.
Been in use approx 2 years since last rebuild. Recently, system is misbehaving. Specifically, on bootup, I get the login screen. I login, I get my desktop wallpapers (2 monitors)....
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When tab groups are loaded, Firefox becomes unresponsible for minutes (Unresponsive script)
I have several tab groups (~ 20) in Firefox. I can start the browser without any problems. However, as soon as I …
click at the "Group tabs" icon in the toolbar, or
right-click on a tab and hover ...
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Windows Hardware Error: "LiveKernelEvent", with code 144 and Locale ID: 1033
Repeated error
I have been repeatedly encountering the following error when my laptop freezes. It may occur multiple times during the day, and should take several minutes to recover.
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How to diagnose why PC is freezing in 3D Application?
Recently I'm having some problems with my PC. I I'm running applications that depends on 3D graphics card it freezes after some time or throws a blue screen (mostly it just freezes). It's hard to tell ...
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Getting console message: ipc_kmsg_copyout_header: can't grow user ipc space. Any Mac OS X kernel gurus in here?
Ever since upgrading from Mac OS X 10.6.5 to 10.6.7, my computer has started locking up frequently (usually at least once every couple of days). I will get the spinning pinwheel and the system will ...
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Windows XP x64 hangs at welcome screen
The problem is that when I boot on Windows XP (x64), which worked very great for a great amount of time, the mouse pointer and the welcome screen appears but then after waiting hour or so nothing ...
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Toshiba A200 laptop running Ubuntu hangs/freezes when plugged in
My Toshiba laptop worked perfectly for three months or so in Ubuntu recovery mode but now it hangs/freezes every hour and when it's plugged in.
I spend eight hours a day on an average on my laptop. I ...
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why does "program not responding" freeze shut down on one machine but not on another?
I often get "program not responding" issue on my Windows XP Pro machines during shut down. However, one machine just ignores it and shuts down. But the other essentially freezes until I manually say "...
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Computer freezing while watching Flash videos from net
I have a Windows 7 home basic, while watching videos from net (within 5 minutes) computer starts to freeze and shows 100 percent CPU usage. I first thought it's a browser issue but watching videos ...
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SSD disk active time 100 percent frequently on idle
I am using windows 11 and I have 2TB M.2 NVME SSD on my laptop. My disk active time is regularly hitting 100 percent on idle. Even tho there is almost no read and write activity at all. Even when my ...
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Video driver (I think) causes computer to freeze up, then continue
Laptop: Dell Studio XPS1340; Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 @2.4GHz; 8GB RAM; Intel 120GB SSD SC2BW120A4
GPU: (stock) NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G, Driver Version 340.52 (up-to-date) [more info avail if needed]
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How to diagnose a freeze on startup in Windows XP?
My XP box usually boots OK, but occasionally freezes partway through the startup process. When it's frozen, the mouse cursor works but there's no response to input, and the only fix is to hard reboot. ...
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Ubuntu/Windows suddenly freezes
I've a strange problem with my ubuntu 10.04 installation. Whenever i boot into ubuntu the entire system freezes / hangs soon after (~ 2 mins in). This problem exists on my windows 7 installation too. ...
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How can I provoke Windows to hang (freeze)?
I need to test equipment behaviour in the event that Windows hard hangs/freezes (e.g. frozen screen, no LEDs blinking, no reaction to inputs, including Ctrl+Alt+Del, etc.). In order to have enough ...
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Can a process be frozen temporarily in linux?
I was wondering if there is a way to freeze any process for a certain amount of time?
What I mean is that: is it possible for one application (probably running as root) to pause the execution of ...
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How to kill tasks in Windows 7 when even Task Manager won't open or respond?
Occasionally one of my computers will get so bogged down that everything locks up, Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work, Task Manager won't open, or they work, but are opening so slowly that it will take hours ...
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'Performance' tab of the task manager is frozen [duplicate]
The 'Performance' tab of the task manager is frozen in Windows 10 (V1909). I can select options to change the views of the graph but this screen is particularly frozen. It happened all of a sudden and ...
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Windows 10 Freezing
I've had this issue on and off since Windows 10 went live and I'm finding a few others with similar symptoms via Google with no conclusive solution. The only semi-consistent clue I'm seeing is Windows ...
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Solid State Drive Occasionally Freezes For A Minute While OS Is "Beach Balling"
Almost a month ago I bought Intel 330 128GB solid state drive, migrated my data with Intel branded limited-feature Acronis from old HDD to new SSD, optimized with Intel Toolbox and started using it. ...
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Windows 7 remote desktop hangs after a successful login
I had the below symptoms:
I remote to my computer, and after I login, the welcome screen comes out and hangs, I minimized the window and maximize again, then the remote desktop window became black ...
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Putty freezes at random when logging into a remote machine in another continent
I have to ssh to a remote machine in Europe from Asia every day for my work. But Putty freezes sometimes at totally random times and I have no choice but to close and re-open a new ssh session. It's ...
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How to unfreeze drive in Linux?
I run
sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda
results:
Security:
Master password revision code = [redacted just in case it's sensitive data]
supported
not enabled
not locked
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How do I analyze excessive Windows kernel mode CPU usage?
My Windows XP machine recently started to semi freeze on me every odd reboot after a few minutes of usage (different programs / no additional prg start at all).
Update: I have now managed to get a ...