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Laptop freezing
« on: December 12, 2011, 08:19:53 pm »
Seems my laptop likes freezing every so often.  Seems to happen more when it's under a small load.  Generally happens most often when wife's on youtube, or even when I'm downloading something large.

HDD or something else?
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2011, 08:38:04 pm »
under load? make sure the vents to your laptop are clean, especially the cpu vent. Then use coretemp or realtemp to see if the cpu temp is higher than what it should be.
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2011, 07:31:06 am »
From time to time, turn it off then put your vacuum cleaner to the fan exhaust. I do this every time my laptop go slow on me and sometimes dust bunnies are pulled out.  :-\
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2011, 10:51:06 am »
Some things culprits I have encountered:

Some lame system process or services taking up resources
Uploading from computer
Computer Virus
Bad graphics drivers
overheating
faulty RAM memory
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2011, 06:31:19 pm »
I've had a temp monitor (speedfan) and it's not going too high.
No virus or malware issues.  Run AVG

Other than switching them out, how could I check the HDD, RAM, or even the CPU?
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2011, 10:40:36 pm »
Have you tried running a linux live CD?  If it runs fine you can rule out all the hardware pretty quick.
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2011, 12:00:54 am »
Everything Vigo said. Unless it's a low-end Macbook Air. They just can't run Flash without overheating.
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2011, 01:51:34 am »
When you are playing a flash video go to your task manager and see if your CPU usage is around 100% Been haveing this issue with Flash on alot of different machines.
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2011, 11:21:14 am »
I will advice you to take pause, to turn off your laptop... and to take off your back cover, to vacum your radiator and to put a little of oil on the fan.... I did this and it help...
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2011, 06:56:43 pm »
Checked out some Linux LiveCD.  What version would others suggest?  I opted for OpenSUSE (v 12.1). 

Ran a memtest overnight.  It had 4 full passes complete, no issues.  Question, is this a normal number of full tests for over 7 hours?  Does a full test really take nearly 2 hours?  I have 4 GB RAM and an Intel 2 Ghz Core 2 Duo.  Seems like it should have finished a few more than just 4 full tests.

Will check the HDDs later.
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2011, 08:10:48 am »
Check out puppy arcade 10.  ;D
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Re: Laptop freezing
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2011, 04:32:09 pm »
Try updating your graphics driver there is a big chance that could be the issue if it's running fine under linux
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