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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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