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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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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Word 2010 freezes when inserting a document cover - how do I determine the cause of the issue?
When I insert certain document covers in Word 2010 (64-bit) the program freezes. I then have to end the process, relaunch Word and then use the recovery version of the document in order to continue ...
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Clarification On Write-Caching Policy, Its Underlying Options And How It Applies To Hard Drives And Solid-State Drives
In last week after doing more research on subject matter, I have been wondering about what I have been neglecting all those years to understand write-caching policy, always leaving it on default ...
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Excel 2003 Freezes When Worksheet with PivotTable Selected
All of the sudden, my Excel 2003 began an odd behavior today. Whenever I click on a worksheet tab that has a PivotTable on it, I become unable to click on any other tabs or on the menu with the ...
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Linux Mint 13 (64) freeze with USB modem
I have an iBurst modem and a driver I installed from here:
http://lelanthran.com/deranged/?p=132
I'm running Mint 13 (64 Bit) - so it's the 3.2 kernel version.
After plugging in the USB modem - it ...
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MacBook Pro hard drive replacement causes massive performance drop
Yesterday I have replaced my MacBook Pro's faulty, 250GB HD with a new 750GB WD Scorpio Blue HD and then restored my data using a TimeMachine backup that I had stored on a separate WD HD. The restore ...
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Normal PSU voltages?
So i've been having some freezes here and there. After checking out my temps (normal), my memory (ran memtest x86 for 3 hours with no problems) and a cpu stress test (also, no problems), I decided to ...
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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 ...
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Computer not shutting down
I have Microsoft Windows 7 Professional installed on my laptop (HP Pavilion G4 Notebook PC).
Since a couple of weeks my laptop is not shutting down properly. When I click on the shut down button the ...
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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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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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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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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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Ubuntu 12.04 hangs on reboot (“All processes ended within 1 seconds”); how to debug?
I read through a lot of ubuntuforums threads and tried out various things. Still freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, 3.2.0-38) hangs on reboot/shutdown after the line "All processes ended within 2 ...
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Asus A52F Laptop Hanigng on BIOS
The laptop first showed a problem about 'no bootable media', so I tried going into system restore. It was very slow and once I tried system restore it hung on a blank screen with the windows 7 login ...
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Why does my home server freeze?
My brother just bought a new laptop and forgot about his old desktop. The desktop has a P17G Motherboard from PC Chips, 2GB RAM, a SATA hard drive, a PATA DVD-ROM, Pentium 4 with HT (Don't remember ...
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Firefox flips to the window behind it when it stops responding
I have Firefox 18.0.2 on Windows 7, but I think that this was happening in the previous version as well.
If I have the browser open, normally I have one Firefox window with 15 tabs ("primary") or ...
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Frequent Mac lockups due to fsck_hfs
My Macbook Pro (10.6.8) locks up every day at noon for several minutes (and often after sleep).
I put 'Activity Monitor' up front right before noon sorted by %CPU, and saw that it ran 'fsck_hfs'. ...
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Windows 8 Pro freezing
I have a Dell Inspiron 5110N which was shipped with Windows 7 HB. Per the new offer from MSFT, i had upgraded to Windows 8 Pro performing a clean install by formatting the C partition and then ...
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Laptop freezes in High Performance mode and plugged in to charger
I own an ASUS N46V and it keeps freezing when plugged in and set to Power4Gear Entertainment mode. Power4Gear mode causes no problems if the laptop is running on battery power.
And I see that it also ...
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Windows 8 desktop pc won't wake up / freezes
There are a few questions about win 8 laptops having sleep problems. Mine is a desktop (so power options with batteries and such don't apply) and also my issue might be different.
My system is only ...
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Occasional CPU/RAM “failures” — sign of a looming meltdown?
Consider the following screenshot from Resource Monitor running on my Win 7 laptop:
There's a dip in CPU and RAM performance ( I don't know if "failure" is the right word for it)...but it dips all ...
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Force system crash on hard hang
I see that there is a way to force a system crash from keyboard.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff545499(v=vs.85).aspx
But does this work when the system is hard hung? i.e, ...
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Windows pauses at boot indefinitely
I know people have addressed similar questions / queries, however, the problem I am facing is slightly strange.
Its a SONY VAIO laptop, only Windows 7 drivers available (64,32). The issue is right ...
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What could be causing my new PC (Zotac ID80) to crash/freeze frequently?
I just bought a new PC (a Zotac ID-80) and it has been performing quite poorly. I tried installing Ubuntu and Fedora, but it crashed constantly (even during setup). For a while I thought my Apple ...
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Windows Vista machine locks up after login
I've got an HP desktop machine circa 2009, running Windows Vista 64-bit and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The machine has been in this configuration (dual boot) for some time (3 years) but recently developed a ...
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Winamp freeze at exit
Im on an XP SP3 machine and the newest Winamp v5.63 has a small problem.
It hangs on exit.
I wouldnt really mind that much cause i simple task kill is all it takes but what annoys me the most is that ...
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linux mint freeze
Linux Mint freezes after a couple of seconds the desktop loads, in a way that I have to shut the power in order to reboot; the mouse doesn't move, Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't do anything and I think even the ...
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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 7 x64 refuses to boot due to an SSD-related issue
This is my setup:
Motherboard: ASUS P5KC
Hard drive: Intel SSD 330 series connected via IDE
OS: Windows 7 x64
The thing is that after having installed the SSD, on each and every a cold boot, ...
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PC Freezing due to asus mv2 motherboard
My PC is freezing up (no blue screen just stuck) when I scroll fast through a webpage or sometimes watch you tube. A hard reset is the only way to get it back. It seems to be unrelated to the length ...
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Win7 Pro x64 task manager hangs when restarting explorer.exe after waking from sleep
I have a desktop running Windows 7 x64 Pro, set for Hybrid Sleep on a wired network. Wakeup is only enabled from the keyboard (wake on mouse and Wake-On-LAN are both disabled). Sometimes when it ...
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Windows 7 hangs after going into sleep a second time
I've searched everywhere around Google and can't figure out why this is happening so I decide to ask here to see if anyone has a problem like this.
Like it says in the title, whenever I sleep ONCE ...
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DirectX (probably after update) makes my system freeze
Lately I bought Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Installed it on my Windows 7 SP1 64-bit system.
The game came with DirectX 11 patch that was installed (I would say successfully).
The problem is ...
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Windows XP 64-bit hangs
I have a Windows XP x64 box showing a couple of odd behaviors. First, the system is hanging after it has been up for about ten minutes. All applications stop responding, Ctrl + Alt + Del does nothing, ...
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Computer unable to boot OS or bootable media
I have a computer that fails to boot with the following symptoms:
-Computer with possible water damage, but it will turn on just fine so I don't believe that to really be the case (usually all or ...
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Chrome and Firefox freeze when I begin typing
Last night, chrome began freezing whenever I tried to type anything. After a fresh reinstall the problem went away but it is back again this morning.
I installed Firefox as a substitute browser but ...
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Computer Slows to crawl after Event Id 3, some issue with Raid Port 0
Recently my computer randomly hangs, crashes and slows down at night, when I click on something when I wake up the computer just doesn't respond and shows the loading thing for my cursor.
Today, I ...
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Windows 7 hangs shortly after startup
My computer recently started freezing a couple minutes after startup sometimes, but sometimes wouldn't even make it pass the loading screen before freezing. It doesn't seem to matter what I do, play ...
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System hangs when turned on after several hours of being off
Starting a while ago, my computer began hanging indefinitely a few minutes after showing the login screen. This only happens after the computer has been off for a few hours.
Normally, after ...
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How to prevent the RPM from freezing?
I've tried to install several things using redhat's RPM, but every time I try it freezes when the progress bar arrives to "Processing Headers"
I've tried rebuilding the rpm's database
rpm ...
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Parallels “Creating Snapshot” hangup
I am using Windows paralles with my mac and I began "creating snapshot" in my VM. But the process won't stop. Now if I startup the VM, I cannot quit parallels and also can't shutdown my computer ...
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Wireless freezes computer on connection to specific network
I have an odd problem with a wireless network.
I have 3 Dell laptops in the house, which we'll call BlackDell, BlueDell and Dellbert. There's also a Tosh. We have a ClearWire hotspot modem. All 4 ...
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Thinkpad X201 freezing on startup
I recently purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad X201 with Windows 7 x64. The computer arrived packed and new. We installed the most basic programs on it: Office 2010, Winrar and a printer.
After about a week, ...
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Editing documents in Sharepoint on Internet Explorer 9 causes hang/freeze
I recently downloaded and installed IE 9 on my Win 7 x64 laptop (Thinkpad T400).
Editing documents in Sharepoint (rich HTML editor) results in the browser hanging (screen turns white, cursor to egg ...
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Why are Direct3D-based applications freezing when launched / closed?
Every time I start a game or application that uses DirectX (specifically Direct3D) in any way shape or form, the screen freezes for about 30-40 seconds. Everything then seems to work normally. The ...
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Application hangs up when copying files to USB
When I copy files from my notebook to USB device (both player and smartphone), application hangs up. I try to perform copying both in Windows Explorer and Far Manager for this.
After this Far manager ...
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.AVI file plays to a point, but can't be copied (USB hard drive)
I have an .avi file (DVD encoded to MPEG4/DIVX ACS) that has a problem - or maybe it's the disk. The file is on a hard drive that I am accessing via a USB adapter. I can't copy the file to my local ...
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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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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 ...
