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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What to do when Windows 7 appears to hang during the installation of updates?
The following message has been displayed on the screen for the last almost hour or so:
I'm guessing something went wrong and it's stuck in some sort of infinite loop or it's waiting for some event ...
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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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VirtualBox 5.0.40 freezes on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit for no clear reason
Starting last night, with no apparent changes to my system, VirtualBox now freezes my host OS when starting any virtual machine.
The host OS is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit as is the guest OS and the ...
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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 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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Computer randomly freezes when playing games
My computer just randomly freezes when playing certain games. It has happened to me in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Call of Duty 4, and Blacklight: Retribution. It has not happened to me with other ...
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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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Why does my computer freeze and make a terrible buzzing noise every once in a while?
Twice now my computer has frozen, accompanied by a terrible, angry, buzzing/beeping noise through the speakers. It is my first build, and as such I'm not really educated enough to even make a guess ...
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Why does Firefox cause high-CPU-usage "spikes" every few seconds?
When I start Firefox, I have no problems for a while, but after a couple of days, CPU spikes start to occur. During a spike, Firefox freezes and then stops. Spikes occur every seven to ten seconds, ...
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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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How can I interrupt emacs opening a large file?
Sporadically when I open a large file in emacs it will hang forever, except the GUI will remain responsive! I can move my mouse between frames and the cursor will fill in, hovering over files in dired ...
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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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Computer not responding when creating a folder
I have Windows 10. I've noticed that whenever I'm trying to create a folder on the Documents folder the Windows Explorer stops to respond and the whole computer gets stuck.
How can I resolve this?
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What do I do when a program stops responding?
When a program stops responding, and turns gray and the box that says "this program is no longer responding" comes up, How do I know when to close the window, and when do I wait for it to respond?
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Why does Windows 7 mouse freeze after resuming from sleep?
A similar question previously posted at Super User is Why does my Windows 7 computer freeze after waking up from Sleep?, but none of the previous answers intially appeared to solve my problem or were ...
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