windows 7 random freeze

Hi. I had this problem on my old precision M70 (complete random freezes), and it was due to a bad sector on the hard drive. Have you run a full diagnostics on the hard drive?

 

My E6510 freeze sometimes... but always each time I try to run Lords of the Ring Online...

 

This guy claims it is a trackpad issue.

Ramblings o' Techie: Dell Latitude E6510 cursor skips or computer freezes


I just followed his guide. Let's see if it helps.

Thanks,
Chris

 

I think it's the hardware problems with some machines Dell ships out. I received a new replacement due to Windows freezing issues, and using the same hard drive, new machine hasn't frozen once.

 

One other thing to check to is make sure the Intel Matrix Storage Manager or Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver is installed.

I have an E6500 with some touchpad problems and I am going to use the guide ThreadAbort posted above. I will report back with my findings.

 

Dell (like all other PEM's) takes forever to update their drivers on the site.
Go to the real hardware manufacture site and try their latest drivers.

See if that helps (uninstall the old ones first).

 

I've had desktop freezes with Win 7 x64 Pro on my m6500. I know it was software, but never isolated it because I've done a reinstall on a new Intel SDD recently....no freezes this time around yet....

 

For troubleshooting, I'd rather use MS default drivers instead of trying some other 3rd party driver.

Myself, I am sticking with the old Synaptics driver provided by Dell (despite its ugly interface) since this has some settings options that are not accessible/available with the generic Synaptics driver.

Michael

 

Out of interest, do you all have the DCP installed?
I noticed stuttering on my M4500 and while I appreciate it is not a hard-freeze, it felt it was going that way
By uninstalling the security module of the DCP, it fixed it

 

What is DCP?