Hello,
I have had Win 7 for several months, and recently it started locking up. Sometimes it will lock up for a bout 30 seconds to up to 2 minutes, other times I have to reboot it in order to do anything.
What I have done so far:
1. Re-installed 3 times
2. Checked drivers
3. Removed all components and installed them again one at a time to try and see if it was hardware related - no luck
4. Ran several different virus scans (Norton, McAfee, MS Security Essentials, IObit, House Call)... Checked Malware also.
5. Checked for Win Update
When it locks up: I am mostly playing online, Neverwinter Nights 2 (most recently) and it locks up, but it will also lock up while just surfing the net or even just looking at the desktop.
Other things I have noticed...
1. Just today, it stopped registering one of my hard drives, won't show up at all, if I restart... it sometimes comes back, but if the computer goes into sleep mode.. and I wake it up.. it is usualy gone again.
2. Some of my desktop Icons are all jacked.. not sure if it's tied in with the missing drive or not. The icons look like the old school win 98 icon or something... if used, the program will still open, but it's just weird that it is doing that.
System Specs:
Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000
RAM: 8 Gig
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
3 Hard Drives - none of them special (2-150Gb and one 250Gb)
Any help would be greatly appreciated cause this lock up stuff is becomming extermly annoying.
I have had Win 7 for several months, and recently it started locking up. Sometimes it will lock up for a bout 30 seconds to up to 2 minutes, other times I have to reboot it in order to do anything.
What I have done so far:
1. Re-installed 3 times
2. Checked drivers
3. Removed all components and installed them again one at a time to try and see if it was hardware related - no luck
4. Ran several different virus scans (Norton, McAfee, MS Security Essentials, IObit, House Call)... Checked Malware also.
5. Checked for Win Update
When it locks up: I am mostly playing online, Neverwinter Nights 2 (most recently) and it locks up, but it will also lock up while just surfing the net or even just looking at the desktop.
Other things I have noticed...
1. Just today, it stopped registering one of my hard drives, won't show up at all, if I restart... it sometimes comes back, but if the computer goes into sleep mode.. and I wake it up.. it is usualy gone again.
2. Some of my desktop Icons are all jacked.. not sure if it's tied in with the missing drive or not. The icons look like the old school win 98 icon or something... if used, the program will still open, but it's just weird that it is doing that.
System Specs:
Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000
RAM: 8 Gig
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
3 Hard Drives - none of them special (2-150Gb and one 250Gb)
Any help would be greatly appreciated cause this lock up stuff is becomming extermly annoying.