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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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Windows 7 freezes with SSD
I have a new SSD (Kingston Hyper 120GB), with a fresh installation of Windows 7 (and several HDDs). For no apparent reason, my computer freezes. I cannot move the mouse, the sound glitches, but after ...
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New SSD: OS and VMware Workstation crash (stability SSD / Asus M4A78 Pro)
A machine is running Windows 7 x64 with several other systems running on VMware Workstation. I built the machine myself, using only quality parts and ran memtest86+ several times without error. ...
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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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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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Using an SSD with no AHCI [ICH7 base] - Windows 7 hangs frequently
I have a Shuttle Intel G31 + ICH7 (base -- not M/R etc) system. I just bought an OCZ Vertex 3 120gb [VTX3-25SAT3-120G] which includes the Sandforce 2218 firmware.
The ICH7 does not support AHCI. I ...
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Computer freezes +/- 30 seconds, suspicion on SSD
My computer freezes for about 30 seconds, this happens occasionally. When it happens I can still move the mouse, sometimes even alternate between tabs in google chrome. If I try to open windows ...
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Possible HDD error. Explorer seem to pause/stop/lock and dir using cmd seem to pause/stop/lock cmd
Reference: When I use the words pause, lock or stop I refer to a stage where a process seems to be in a never-ending-loop with no timeout.
I have built a brand new pc, except for the hard drives.
The ...
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SSD causes my Windows 7 installation to freeze
I have an ADATA S510 60GB SATA3 (AHCI mode) SSD, and an Asus M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard.
Quite often my computer freezes for about 30 seconds, and afterward returns to its normal state. I'm more than ...
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high end pc freezes at random intervals (low load)
BUILD:
CPU: 6770K with water cooling (not OCed)
GPU: inno3D GTX 780 (not OCed)
Ram: dominator 32GB
MOBO: Maximus XIII Ranger
SSDs: 2x 500GB plextor (raid0)
OS: windows 10 Pro
BACKGROUND:
Just ...
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How to create a Win7 read-only boot drive?
Long story short - I have Win7 installed on SSD which is my primary boot disk C: drive. I have another 2TB SATA IDE HDD as the D: drive which stores most of my programs and all my data.
So far so ...
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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, Windows ...
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Is there any way to check the Disk I/O that happens after startup and the duration for each task?
I am trying to troubleshoot a hard freeze of my computer (Windows 7) after startup.
After 3-4 seconds after the user login screen, the OS freezes:
Pressing the Windows button at the keyboard doesn't ...
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How to clone an freezed SSD to another SSD? [closed]
I have a system running Windows 7 OS, with many programs. It's frozen by deep freeze. The old SSD is 120GB and the new one is 120GB as well. I tried a raw copy program to clone it. But it didn't clone ...
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Windows 7 laptop freezes for half a second every minute or so
I have a Dell Inspiron 14z latop, with an i5-2450M CPU (running at 2.5Ghz), 8 Gb of memory, and a Kingston SVP200S3 solid-state drive (120 Gb). I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate, 64bit on it.
My ...
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Windows 7 freezing occasionally, Windows update or SSD issue?
I recently switched to an SSD drive (as my OS drive) which has been working fine for about 2 months now.
Now last week there was a Windows update, after that update, I noticed that Windows would ...
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windows 7 occassional freeze but mouse works
Here's an odd issue I'm facing lately.
Lately at times, while working, my Windows 7 machine freezes temporarily, although I'm able to move the mouse and even the hover effects on window titlebars ...
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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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Even after reinstalling windows, why does explorer.exe like to hang?
I have an LT4009u. Which any sane person would regret buying, but damn it I'll make it work.
Anyways, I upgraded it by buying a 4 GB chip of RAM (up from its original 1 GB), and I put a (rather ...
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Windows 7 computer hangs for minutes at a time, brand new SSD
As a solution to a previous issue I had (Windows 7 computer hangs for a few seconds very frequently; disk I/O light stays on turing freezes), I replaced my presumed failing HDD with a brand new SSD (a ...
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New SSD freezing on older motherboard (intel G31)
I have an ECS G31T-M motherboard running a Core2 Quad processor, 4gb RAM, Windows 7 32bit, Geforce 9600GT. Bought a Sandisk Extreme III 120GB (SDSSDX-120G-G25) and installed today. I'm outputting ...
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