G73 freezes seconds after log on.

I've had my g73 for about 2 months now and love it.
No heat issues and no gsod's.

However, these last 2 weeks, the computer will hang after it fully boots. I can even go into start menu, open up applications, it sometimes even lasts for a couple mins... then it freezes, no sod at all.
It corrects itself after a few tries and system recoveries, and i've been busy so I havet paid it much notice.

Now, though, a bsod will pop up occasionally afterwards and that says MAchine Check Error, with a tech info of a whole bunch of zeros.

This is really annoying as I use my laptop as my only computer.

I tried to update the vbios, which worked, but it did not fix my problem.

Any ideas?

 

If you updated the vBIOS, make sure you also update your BIOS to 209 or later, and update your video drivers.

 

The bios was updated to 209 when I got it, he video drivers were updated at that point as well

 

Then I suggest updating your other drivers, including Intel INF, Realtek audio, Wifi and LAN, etc. Other things can cause the video drivers to crash.

 

Ok, thanks/ I'm in the process of doing that. Hopefully it solves my problem.

 

what did u install before that happens... mone freeze too when i install kaspersky anti viirus 2011... uninstall it and it work fine again now... tried to install it one more time... it its freezes again.... try to check some of your programs that makes it freeze...

 

You didn't by chance install Steam and/or Creative recently did you. With the original RealTek drivers, Creative, and Steam installed, you may get a lockup right after logging into Windows if you enable Bass boost in the Creative control panel. Chastity did a lot of debugging on that. If this is the case, you need to update your Realtek drivers and the problem goes away.

Just a shot in the dark. Mine started locking up within thirty seconds of me logging in after I enabled the bass boost settings.

 

I've owned my G73 going on 6 months now, and regardless of drivers/creative suites, a hard crash (BSOD, forced shutdown) always results in a locking up desktop the following reboot.

That said, I had a brainwave a few weeks ago.

Note, my G73 is absolutely rock solid systemwise. Although I sporadically (twice now) get an athryx.sys BSOD linked to the Atheros wireless driver. Google reveals a whole lot of problems with Atheros wireless cards.

The brainwave was to shutdown normally before the system locks up on the next reboot. As in Power Button > Log In > Wait for desktop to setup > Start Shutdown before system locks-up.

Must be something to do with creative processes and/or realtek processes not shutting down properly.

In anycase, I've never had a lockup since. Before the brainwave I would have to uninstall everything Creative/Realtek related and re-install. Pooty process.

 

I was able to run it a few days, and then after turning it on after it was in hibernation i noticed the sub-woofer, which hadn't been playing sound, was now working, even though I had the sound muted. I quickly turn the volume down while still in the log on screen because I was in the middle of class.

When I log on and go to turn up the sound a little bit, I fine that it has to be full volume just to hear a little sound, and the subwoofer makes none again.

I go into control panel to see what could be wrong and I get a bsod,
Now I've turned on the computer eight times. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes, sometimes 3 seconds, but it always freezes on me.

Writing this in safe mode.

I have reinstalled all drivers except for catalyst, as I don't know how to while in safe mode.

This is getting annoying.

 

Just testing a theory here, but I get the same thing when I hard crash.

Try this: Second you log on to the desktop, Start > Shutdown. Then power up again.

 

Mine was doing the same and I solved it by deleting all the sound drivers and then installed the Realtek drivers only. You have to reboot to install the Realtek part properly. I did not install the Creative drivers again and my machine has not had a lockup since.

The woofer on the bottom works fine with just the Realtek drivers. I'm not sure what the benefit of the Creative drivers are, maybe someone can enlighten me.

 

This phenomenon started happening to me just now. Every single time I boot up, I get frozen screen/complete crash within 30 seconds. Previously I was able to enable subwoofer and CMSS-3D (though I literally hear no difference with the latter on?), but maybe one or the other are causing problems with something.

e: Well it's definitely conflicting with Steam, though this happened out of the blue since it was fine before. Weird thing is, I disabled bass boost, then tried to open Steam, still froze up on me.