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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My laptop freeze or has black screen when I open the lid after suspend
Since when I bought this laptop (Huawei Matebook D14, it has a AMD Ryzen 5 3500U CPU with a Radeon Vega 8 GPU) and installed Linux on it (it's dualbooting with Windows), I have this problem that ...
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Random Crashes After Installing 2nd and 3rd M.2 NVMe Drives on Ubuntu 21.04 System
After installing the 2nd and 3rd M.2 NVMe drive on a X570 motherboard, the machine starts freezing after running high IO workloads for 12-24 hours. Moving the mouse/keyboard does not wake it up (...
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My system sometimes suddenly hangs
Months ago I got a second hand OptiPlex 9020 SFF with 2 x 8GiB + 1 x 4GiB memory, E3-1240L v3 and an entry level AMD GPU. I replaced the CPU with my own i5-4570 which had been used for seven years ...
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Windows 10 UI freezes because of GPU driver
I've got a new laptop 3-4 weeks ago and it used to work fine until a week ago I started to get multiple BSOD with different error codes and just interface freezes when everything is stuck and I have ...
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Freezing panes in excel
I have been trying to figure out if this is possible. So if someone can help Just answer a simple question I would greatly appreciate it.
Is it possible to have the first 2 rows frozen then after ...
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My laptop keep freezing
I have a low end laptop with amd athlon silver and 4gb of ram and 1tb of hdd with windows 10 home edition, when i first buy it for coding purpose it never had any problem than a little bit of lag when ...
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Non-resolvable 30 seconds freezing event id 129 (sometimes comes with disk warning id 153) source iaStorAC in new laptop
I have bought a new laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 14). I was so excited about it until I realized sometimes it freezes when I am working. It freezes for about 30 seconds and it is really annoying. And ...
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Windows 10 reboots and freeze randomly
First config:
Motherboard: MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1050Ti Low Profile
RAM: 2 x 8 GB HYPERX HX432C16PB3A/8
PSU: Chieftec CSN-650C 650W
SSD: ADATA SWORDFISH m.2 ...
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Asus ROG Strix Scar 15 G532LV RAM upgrade result in stuttering of apps
This week I upgraded my RAM to 32GB with this Kingston pack HX432S20IB2K2/32 on my ROG Strix Scar 15 G532LV . Since this upgrade, a lot of apps are stuttering most of the time(not all of the time and ...
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Computer keeps freezing after ubuntu installation
Recently, I decided to shift to Ubuntu 20.04. So, I installed it on dual boot setup along with my already installed Windows 10. It worked great for 3 days (great enough for me to shift a lot of my ...
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Trying to figure out Windows 10 login delay; xperf shows explorer.exe hanging up on “Windows.Devices.Lights.dll”
Situation:
I boot up my laptop, log in to Windows, and everything loads up quickly as it should.
After the system has been up for "a while", a second user logs in with fast user switching.
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What part of the Linux graphics system could bring an earlier image back to the display?
I have a PC with an AMD Ryzen 3400G APU with Linux. I regularly experience a graphics phenomenon which has long affected users of similar Ryzen APU systems§:
I am watching YouTube or playing a game ...
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Google Chrome lags when opening <select> in phpMyAdmin
If I open select in phpMyAdmin to select collate of database, Google Chrome lags/is unresponsive/stops responding for a while/shows "page is not responding" dialog. The CPU usage of Chrome ...
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What could be the possible cause of high CPU spikes, lagging while idle and Windows not booting on dual-boot laptop?
I have an old Lenovo U310 laptop (7-8 years) and for almost a year I've been using it as a dual-bootable system. One OS was Windows 8.1 and the other one was Kali Linux.
I've been using Kali Linux ...
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Linux system completely freezes “CPU Stuck for 22 seconds”/ Hardware Error?
I have got the issue of regular freezes on my ryzen 5 computer. It occurs across different distibutions and kernels.
The freezes occur mostly when trying to suspend the system to ram, but also changes ...
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What is the cause of a freezing GUI if used through remote desktop?
I have a software (programmed in Java, installs own Java and Chromium), which i use since many years. The software has a GUI and a headless, CLI mode.
Usually i install and run this software on my ...
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Frequent, odd freezes
For the past month I've been experiencing increasingly frequent freezes. It's gotten to the point where it will happen multiple times daily.
When a freeze occurs, the first sign is that my audio cuts ...
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PC randomly freezes
Specs
Windows 7 64bit
Q6600
GTX 550 Ti
4 GB RAM
450 PSU
I'm fully aware this is an ancient machine and I'm working on upgrading it, an answer with: you machine is garbage and you should throw it away ...
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The computer's video memory freezes
I was running Android in live mode, but one day the computer froze, and today when I tested the video memory stress using a tool included in HBCD, the computer froze the same way when I started ...
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Windows 10 excruciatingly slow with network connected
The moment I connect my laptop to any network, wired or wireless, it becomes unresponsively slow. Windows Explorer context menu takes up to 60 seconds to appear, opening command prompt works but ...
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Cryptic nvidia GDM message in syslog before Ubuntu complete freeze up
running Ubuntu 18.0.4.5 LTS
Received in /var/log/syslog:
/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[3606]: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^...
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S.M.A.R.T Statues Bad
There are some similar questions already but I think this is different.
I have a X554L Asus notebook with Windows 10 on it. When I push the power on button, after Asus logo, I see a black screen, ...
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New build randomly 'freezes'
I have random freezes with my new build. I can still use the mouse to move around, but clicking on some things (varies each time) will not perform the action.
When this happens, all the fan settings ...
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Excel is has been spinning for over 12 hours. How do I avoid losing data?
I was trying to edit a macro in the VBA editor. I clicked save and Excel has been "saving" the macro for over 12 hours now. My CPU is running at about 12% and memory usage is around 20%. If ...
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Chromebook Bootloader Broken?
I want to be able to install linux mint onto my chromebook to dual boot and I enabled developer mode and all the other settings (crossystem usb boot) and I shutdown the chromebook and boot it up, I ...
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External HDD freezes computer and does not show up in Disk Management
I have a Seagate 1TB external hard drive. I was doing a full reformat of the drive the other day and unfortunately, my pc crashed while it was at 94%.
After a reboot, my pc was completely stuck and ...
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The screen freezes while moving files/apps across screens with remote session?
I have a Laptop(i7 and 2GB NVIDIA graphic card) with an extended monitor(27 inches). When working remotely, whenever I'm dragging some apps like file explorer/chrome to another screen, the screen ...
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Very high cpu usage for trivial task | Windows 10
Normally I do not post such question but this is a serious problem which I have found nowhere on internet. I will attach all necessary specs in image below as well as the key problem.
So the problem ...
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Google Chrome and some other application temporarily freeze Archlinux
Some application keep temporarily freezing.
This happens most of the times with Google Chrome, electron based app like discord teams, terminal like kitty and alacritty, robo3t.
It works fine with ...
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two different computers, one brand new, still a weird random small freeze occuring
One of the reasons I purchased a new computer a couple of weeks ago was that I couldnt figure out, on my previous PC, what was causing a short, random freeze, associated to a CPU spike, every now and ...
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Windows 10 intermittent mouse and keyboard freeze
I've tried asking this question on other forums, only to get "reinstall your drivers" followed by a dozen "doesn't work" responses. Stackoverflow is my last resort.
Very stock Dell ...
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Computer freeze after connecting to usb flash drive
I tried to connect my WD500G mechanical drive to my computer using the case provided USB-A port. Recently when I connected, the system freeze and keyboard light went off. But other things work ...
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Laptop screen freezing/lagging randomly
I have a dell g5 5590 laptop and for about 6 months now I have been having this weird issue: the screen would randomly freeze on a frame and would come back online after moments. Sometimes it would ...
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Computer freezes every 3 seconds
My PC freezes every 3 seconds and after 1 second back to normal and again.
I have updated my windows and drivers to the latest version but I'm having this problem.
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Windows: ...
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Computer freezing Windows 10
thanks in advance for your time.
i’m experiencing plenty of computer freeze these days. My system runs Windows 10 on a quad core machine (X4 860K).
The freezing experience shows my computer that keeps ...
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Hardware Diagnostic Windows10 (System crashes / Black screen)
I very often have freezes of my Windows10 Computer, especially under heavy load (mostly in games).
Symptoms: Black screen and sound repeating infintely. No more reaction on any key. Otherwise my PC ...
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I Froze My Computer’s Clock With CMD And I Can’t Unfreeze It
So I wrote the following cmd file:
:he
time < time.txt
goto he
The contents of time.txt are:
00:00:00.00
My goal here was to freeze my Windows 7 clock to see if it caused a program on my computer ...
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How to prevent disk from going to standby
I have a rather new laptop (just a few months old) with a 128GB SSD where my OS is installed and a 1TB HDD where I place most heavy files. The problem I'm having with it is: after a few seconds of not ...
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How to diagnose a hardware issue when logs are not available?
My Dell Latitude E7470 running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Windows 10 in dual boot, freezes randomly after experiencing a moderate amount of writes. For example, after having browsed a bit or when installing ...
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Windows 10 Freeze on Logo at startup, safe mode and usb installation without loading circle
today my new PC arrived and, as lucky as I am, I got some problems.
First things first, the hardware:
Gainward RTX 3060 Ti
16 GB Ballistix RAM 2666 MHz
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
MSI A520M-A Pro
A Crucial SSD ...
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Generic PnP Monitor driver cause mouse lag and freezing
Recently my friend bought new desktop without monitor.
However he said that the new computer has freezing or lagging problem.
After investigating I resolved the issue by installing correct monitor ...
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Screen/pc blackouts and freezes - GPU, PSU or Motherboard issue?
My pc has been having regular freezes and black screens the past few weeks, especially during 'graphically-intensive' processes.
When:
At first it was only during video games, then also during Zoom ...
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Computer have pixels on screen, freezing then restart
Specs: Rtx 2060 Super
Ryzen 5 3600XT
B550 Aorus Pro
24gb RAM
750W
Windows 10 64bitenter image description here
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linux system IO hangs/freezes randomly for ~30 sec
while working on my ubuntu 20.04 desktop, I'll notice a occasional freezes where it "mostly" goes out to lunch for 10's of seconds to ~1 minute. Happens perhaps ~~once an hour. I can still ...
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How to debug a total system lockup?
I’m running the latest version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a powerful desktop PC. It works fine most of the time, but once in a while my system randomly runs into this weird lockup, described in more ...
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Router requiring reboot - 3 different models
So I have some internet issues that have been happening for a while now (1-2 years) with 3 different router models (PPOE connected through ZTE GPON ONT).
What happens:
After a while (might be a few ...
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Latitude E6440 Freezes in Windows 10 but not in Ubuntu
I have a bit of an unusual problem with a "new" Latitude E6440 I own. I'm trying to install Windows onto it, which succeeds, but after I setup windows and log in, it will start freezing. ...
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When using a secondary monitor with Windows 10 gaming PC, the computer freezes when waking from sleep
I recently got a secondary monitor for my PC and when using both monitors with Windows 10 gaming PC, the computer freezes when waking from sleep after locking with Windows + L (after about 15 minutes ...
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Edgerouter ERX running OpenWRT (19.07.5) freezes randomly
I use an Edgerouter ERX as my main router which is connected to an Arris cable modem (set to bridge mode). There are some devices connected by cable (eg. Synology NAS, Desktop Computer,...) and there ...
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Linux Mint 20 freezes randomly on NVIDIA with nouveau
I have an old machine with this config:
System:
Kernel: 5.4.0-56-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana
base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
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