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    Random lock-ups

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by rappa, Feb 16, 2011.

  1. rappa

    rappa Notebook Enthusiast

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    Every 2-3 days, my g73jh just locks up. Like I'll be watching a video and the video will just pause and I can minimize it and stuff, but it won't play, nothing else will open, not even task manager. Then after about 2 minutes, it snaps out of it and everything is fine again.

    I have installed the random freezes patch that's been linked in the forum, but it didn't work.

    It happens most with vlc and videos, but sometimes it happens within other programs too like microsoft office.
     
    rappa, Feb 16, 2011
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    Hrogi Notebook Consultant

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    how often is the computer turned off and restarted?

    Have you done the simple things like Scan Disk and defragging as well?
    Checking for any Virus and other things of the Nature?
     
    Hrogi, Feb 16, 2011
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  3. rappa

    rappa Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ya, that's the first thing I did, the chkdsk and defragging. I turn it off every night, so it's started once a day.

    I don't have viruses, I'm using nod32 which is supposed to be pretty good.
     
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  4. Rückenmark

    Rückenmark Notebook Consultant

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    you need to flash your HDDs, thats the solution.
     
    Rückenmark, Feb 16, 2011
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  5. rappa

    rappa Notebook Enthusiast

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    I did that too, the cd flash utility. I did that about 2-3 weeks ago.
     
    rappa, Feb 16, 2011
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    antisniperspy Notebook Evangelist

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    Mine would lock up for about 2 minutes when my second hdd with spin down. Fixed it by making sure the hdd never went to sleep.
     
    antisniperspy, Feb 16, 2011
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  7. rappa

    rappa Notebook Enthusiast

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    In power options, I have it set to: turn off hard disk never for battery and plugged in.
     
    rappa, Feb 16, 2011
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    Xellon Shinobi of the wind

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    From the sound of it though, windows recovers after a min or 2. In that case, I say you just need to keep your hardrive up to speed.

    Defrag your hardrive, registry clean, then defrag your registry, disable broken devices, get rid of junk files, remove programs u never use, and get rid of useless processes and overall, this should improve your performance. Just because u have a powerful processor, ram, and gpu, your hardrive is slowing you down.

    I recommend trying these apps -

    -RegTweaker or use a free registry cleaner (not aware of any but there are some)
    -Advanced System Care
    -TuneUpUtilities

    edit - I've tried lots of software that is suppose to clean or tune ur pc and I find that they all are useful. To clean junk files/useless sytem files, I also rely on speedupmypc and to get rid of tracking cookies, I use hitman pro 3.0
     
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  9. antisniperspy

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    Yes thats what I did and have not had it happen since.
     
    antisniperspy, Feb 16, 2011
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