1645/Win 7 Freezing

Well folks, it seems that my lovlely 1645 keeps on freezing completely in random fashion. I have not noticed any patterns as everytime it has frozen it has been while doing something different, such as surfing the web, plugging in peripherals, etc etc. So know ive HAD IT. First with the bsod's when fullscreening a flash based video online, which i attribute to the video drivers, of which i have tried installing MULTIPLE, with no solution, and happens to begin with the screen freezing, and now the stupid freezing caused by random events..

Do these issues affect anyone else? I have noticed that the random freezing started to occur after flashing to the A03 BIOS.

Does anyone have any tips..suggestions?


BTW, i have already reinstalled the OS once, and dont want to do it again....unless absolutly necessary.

 

I had a system freeze when watching full screen flash and 1 BSOD when watching dvd since I received my laptop last week.

 

I did a clean install and experienced no freezes. It could be some of the things Dell preinstalled.

Disable ALL startup items and try running some programs.

~Ibrahim~

 

You're not alone.

I think there are two issues here, both of which I've experienced. When watching full screen flash video, my 1645 has gone into a mode where it runs so extremely slowly that the screen barely refreshes. The computer has to be rebooted. In the event log, these entries can be seen, "atikmdag stopped responding and has recovered"

At other times, the computer locks up and doesn't respond to anything. This has happened to me five times. Four times it was *immediately* after TweetDeck played its notification sound. The fifth time was immediately after my email program played its (different) notification sound.

I don't have any solutions to these problems.

 

Does this happen if you have Aero/DWM disabled?

Try opening an elevated command prompt (right click Command Prompt, run as administrator) and enter "net stop uxsms". Then try to reproduce the crash/freeze.

 

I get the same exact error message, therefore my reasoning for it being a graphics card driver issue.

BTW, you explained the problem better than i did...so kudos


@ikjadoon & eblock12: Thanks for the suggestions. I will attempt your suggestions and will come back with the results.

 

I had this issue with full screen flash player. Found a solution from another thread on this forum - installed the beta flash version (10.1) and modded ati drivers and haven't had an issue since.

 

I am using 10.1 and stock ati driver, it hasn't happened since then.

 

There are too many variables to track and frankly I don't have the time to do scientific experiments. After I updated to the A03 bios, I haven't had full screen flash cause a problem, but I haven't done extensive testing. I'm going to continue to monitor the behavior. I'm using the latest non-beta version of flash. At the moment, I have flash hardware acceleration turned off. That, of course, is another variable to track.

 

Just a note: I just had a lockup with the sound muted. Investigation continues...