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    1645 Freezing problem, Relates to SSD?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by hitokiri1, Feb 22, 2010.

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    hitokiri1 Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok, in my case I'm having a recurring freezing problem and I'm not sure if this relates to my SSD.

    Under power management in Windows 7 I had "put hard drives to sleep" 20mins.

    I assume that this is the root cause for my freezing problems because it seems to happen around the time it takes to sleep the drive.

    My understanding is that SSD's don't require this function because they are constantly running due to no moving parts. My question is what do you think? is this a possible reason for my freezes?

    Before I put this SSD in when I got the laptop it came with a 500GB 7200RPM drive. This too would freeze up occasionally. I've since reinstalled the OS on the new SSD Drive and am now intermittently getting a freeze.

    One last thing to note. This doesn't only happen when the drive enters a sleep state. I've been working in programs like Photoshop for instance and during a file save the laptop will freeze forcing a hard reset.

    Any advice would be appreciated.
     
    hitokiri1, Feb 22, 2010
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    semblance Notebook Consultant

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    semblance, Feb 22, 2010
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    since i disabled the sleep function for the SSD it hasn't forzen yet. So thats a good sign.
     
    hitokiri1, Feb 23, 2010
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    Still no freezing.
     
    hitokiri1, Feb 24, 2010
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    well, it finally froze. while doing nothing with the screen dim,

    It freezes up and then the fan starts spinning out of control.
     
    hitokiri1, Feb 26, 2010
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    Check out the thread I linked to. :)
     
    semblance, Feb 26, 2010
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