5672 Freezing during Browsing

Hi, my name's Tim and i bought the 5672 (T2300 duo, 1GB ram, 128 x1400, sata etc) around july, and i'm pretty sure i've always experienced that it occasionally, completely freezes, mouse, keys, sound (if there is music playing then it will go into some kind of split second loop, if you see what i mean) and i have to hold down the power button in order to turn it off.

This seems to occur when browsing, certain websites also seem to set it off. i took it upon myself to have a go at fixing it, i've restored it to the factory settings with eRecovery, and now converted the windows partition to NTFS, defragged it after installing some things - opera, foobar2k, jetico firewall, media player classic+codecs, filezilla, hamachi VPN, and also uninstalling most of the acer brand software and killing all but one or two startup processes using msconfig.

However i still experience complete freeze ups when browsing certain sites (embarassingly, myspace.com will freeze my 5672 within 1 or 2 hyperlinks), i have tested with IE, opera and firefox, reinstalled browsers etc, but have had no luck so far. I have had 0 crashes while playing games of any form (i have played Age of Empires II in sessions of 6-9 hours at times, it also runs Doom 3 and Battlefield 2 well), or playing movies, all the crashes i can remember (which is a lot) come from browsing. I'm hoping it's not a hardware error - as it happens in such an obscure case, and i do not hear any worrying noises. I also do not experience extreme heat problems while browsing, i usually have the laptop propped up on a book or something.

thanks if you've gone to the effort of reading all that! i am mainly wondering if anyone has heard of, or experienced similar behaviour in any computer i guess, or if they have any suggestions as to what i could do

Tim

ps this happens regardless of whether the laptop is connected to the mains.

 

Do the repair on Internet Explorer. If you cannot repair it, you may try to
uninstall it, and then put it back.

A number of causes for the freezing of programs in XP.

A driver has been installed that is causing a conflict in XP. All the
drivers installed for XP, must be rated for XP.

The program being used has some files that have become corrupted. This also
includes any caching files that are used by the operating system, or the
active programs that are loaded. If it is the one program that causes the
system failure, then the problem is with the apparent program being
operated.

There may be a Virus, Worm, Trojan, Adware, or Spy Logger type programs that are running in the background. Many of these are not well written. When too many of them are running, it is possible that they are using up too many available resources, or causing memory leak problems.

A good start would be to run a some of the utilities that are used for
cleaning out Adwares, and Spywares. Adaware Personal, and Spybot Search And Destroy are very good ones to use.

Do a system scan with an up to date virus scanner. This will insure that the
system is as clean as possible.

Go in to the cache areas for Internet Explorer that are on your system. Do a
cleanup of all the unnecessary cache files. A corrupted cache file can
easily cause the fault that you are experiencing.

It is a good practice to run a memory testing software on any machine that
is locking up or crashing. Microsoft, and a few others are allowing a free
download of this type of program. There s also one called Memtest 86. This
one is also excellent.
http://www.memtest86.com/

If you encounter problems that you cannot resolve, it is often beneficial to
uninstall Internet Explorer and then reinstall it. This procedure replaces
files that might have been damaged.

Use the Windows Disk Cleanup Wizard to perform all of the following tasks
to clear space on your hard disk:

a.. Remove temporary Internet files.
b.. Remove any downloaded program files (ActiveX controls and Java applets
downloaded from the Internet).
c.. Empty the Recycle Bin.
d.. Remove Windows temporary files.
e.. Remove Windows components that you are not using.
f.. Remove installed programs that you no longer use.


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So Happy to credit Jerry G.

 

I'm having a similar problem with my 1 week old Aspire 5102WLMi. I haven't narrowed down the freezing to only when I'm browsing, but it's possible that it's happening only then. I don't do much more than internet browsing on it anyway, but I did play AOEII the other day for a couple hrs without any trouble.

In the past week I've had the laptop I've already run the eRecovery twice thinking there might be something in some of the software I've downloaded that is causing a problem. As of right now I've just run the recovery and am going to use the pc for a couple days without loading any other software to see if it freezes anymore. I'm not even going to update windows.

One other thing I've noticed is that there are 2 services that try to load each time I turn on my laptop. They are eLock2FSCTLDriver and eLock2BurnerLockDriver. I'm going to post a separate thread on those to see if anyone else with a 5102WLMi has those same event log errors at startup.

Please post if you discover a resolution to your pc locking up.