s96j freezing problems

Yeah, I know its old... but my s96j has started to freeze randomly for seemingly no reason. I'll be working or listening to music and all of a sudden the computer will stop responding, keep playing the same note if I have music playing, and the screen locks up on whatever I'm doing for about 10 seconds. Then, everything returns to normal. It happens maybe once every 4 or 5 hours...
Any idea what could be causing this? I'm guessing its hardware... but cpu, memory, or motherboard?

thanks,

andy

 

This could be a number of things but I have an idea..

I've got a G50V that has as similar problem, I've whittled it down with the help of some forum members to be the trackpad ... if you go to task manager and set the priority of syntpenh.exe (and SynTPHelper.exe if you have it running too) to low it seems to fix it until the next reboot/logon. I'm trying to make a script that reliably fixes it but haven't gotten it totally worked out yet. I don't know if this helps but it sounds a LOT like the problems I have had to deal with.

Good luck!

 

hmm... I don't use the Synaptic utility at all for my touchpad- the touchpad seems to work fine for me without it running at all, so I used MSConfig to disable it from ever running. Neither of the processes you mentioned is active on my computer, but it still seems to be happening.

Maybe I'll go back to Ubuntu and figure out if it still happens. That way it could be narrowed down to hardware or software.

thanks for the comment, though...