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windows 7 desktop freezes / hangs for about 90 seconds ~5-10 times per day, no hardware sensor logs
My windows 7 desktop started freezing occasionally. The "freeze" proceeds like this...
Application stops responding to clicks, but screen is still updating and media is still playing
Screen & ...
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Can installing a new PSU cause CPU spikes/Firefox freezes?
After having my last PSU die on me, and then running on a borrowed 250W one for a few months, I finally got round to installing a new one. I inputted the wattage of all my current parts into a few ...
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How to diagnose my computer's issue?
I have a serious problem here, my desktop suddenly shutdown. I was testing my HDD and I found that it has some bad sectors, so I bought a new one: WD GREEN 500gb. After that everything went right, ...
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PC Completely Freezes, Needs to Be Rebooted
I have a pretty old built PC that I was recently upgrading. I upgraded quite a few different parts so I'm not sure what was the thing that lead to this issue but now my computer reliably freezes ...
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Windows 7 comes to a near-halt every week and then flushes memory
I have a very strange issue that's been puzzling me for a long time. I have a Windows 7 system with 16GB RAM. Every week or so, usually at some point during the first few days of the week, and at a ...
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How can cpu-intensive processes slow down a system despite having a scheduler?
I've encountered it on both Windows and Linux that if some process is doing some heavy work and the cpu is under a lot of stress, the whole system can sort of freeze, other processes get slow, etc. ...
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Computer will freeze/ lock up after doing relatively stressful things
I'll first start off by saying that the issue GENERALLY doesn't occur unless I'm doing something remotely stressful for my computer. This issue used to occur whenever it felt it was necessary, however ...
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Freezing OS - need advice for debugging
My Windows 7 PC recently started to freeze randomly. No hardware or major software changes were made, and no specific circumstances I can locate the freezing depending on. My first suspect is the GPU, ...
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Windows 7 gets stuck with ~1% CPU. Especially with multithreading
Windows 7 32 bit, up to date, Intel i7 860. (For some reason the company runs 32bit Windows everywhere.) I tried to update all motherboard drivers etc. as far as possible.
I have a performance issue ...
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My Samsung R480 laptop freezes for short and inconsistent periods of time
I have a Samsung R480 laptop running Windows 7. It's great, I love it to death, but every so often it'll start having, for lack of a better term, "hiccups". It would freeze completely, emit a loud ...
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