Troubleshooting for system freezes and unresponsiveness

Hi Everyone,

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit Professional on my N81Vg-X1 notebook. This computer, which I've owned for more than one and a half years is still a good one, at least, I think.

I've been having issues with my computer freezing and becoming unresponsive while multitaskign between games+pandora, vlc+games, or just netflix viewer. Permutations of these task, and even individuals tasks, result in a >1 minute freeze, which audio still working but at a 1/100th speed. My system still works while it is frozen:

Examples: On SC2, battlenet keeps me in game for the 50 or so secs, so I basically just have a lag-out session until my system catches its breath. I don't get disconnected, is what I mean to say.
Also, I've had files beign downloaded at ~2-3 mbs and noticed that the download would continue even when the system became unresponsive.

Windows has not reported any significant errors. Logs basically just notify me that some system components stopped/restarted in step with my system freezes.


POSSIBLE CULPRITS:

4gbs of ram/ 7200 rpm 750 gb seagate/Defraged/only ASUS bloatware is Asus FastBoot and Asus hotkey drivers/apps.


-I had been doing some system tweaks (boot config-start boot with 2 processors)
-Disabled window services (fax/telephony/remote registry/tablet input services.
-Memory check via windows utility (2 pass) came out alright.
-I've run prime95 on my system and this os install for about an hour (nothing, I know, but not having access to my computer for a day is tantamount to torture)




One final note. I had an issues similar to this before I did a clean install on a new 750gb seagate (waste of money, do not buy these seagates unless you just wnt their 5-year warranty). Basically, it would be a system stutter where the video and audio would get stuck for one or two seconds, and then resume.



Any ideas, anyone?

I can provide technical details if need be, have cpu-z and the like installed, just ask.


P.S. I will be visiting my older brother soon and if he sees that my asus is broken while his macbook pro is fine, he's going to annoy me to death. I can't let my pc become inferior to his 2.5 year old macbook pro (13").

 

I should aso add that my Temperatures are all in order.

I've never gone over 70 while in game+streaming music on sc2 (gpu). I've never seen my cpu temperatures in the 60s. Usually, they hover at 32-25 while idling, 45-53 while in use. Everything has pretty recent AS-5 on it. RAM is solidly in place ( at first I thought that this issue might have something to do with heat expansion causing the memory sticks to lose some contact with their socket, since this would often happen between 5-50 minutes into heavy use).

 

This thread has been helpful....

Well, i returned that damned 7400.4 500 gb seagate and reinstalled my old harddrive, which had my previous system still on it.

No errors. Still have issues with some occasional stuttering (maybe once in a ten hour session).

More often then the stuttering is an unpredictable display error where it turns several shades of grey and ceases to respond. restarting is the only way to get out of this, as the system doesn;t recover after ten minutes.

Overall though, It must have come down to some kind of driver configuration, or possibly a partitioning problem. (THis conclusion was reached after reading

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...-hitachi-7k500-benchmark-setup-specifics.html

)

Seagate either ed me, or my meddling did it. but regardless, my coputer is back it its normal self.

Now, how about those SSDs...lol.

Thanks for the views guys. Sorry to waste server space.

To reiterate for people having problems:

Clean install and load the drivers provided for your PC by the manufacturer, not WINDOWS.

Don't meddle with services unless your sure you know what you're doing.

Create restore points frequently when fiddling with settings and the like.


Have a back up handy, and if you upgrade a HDD, keep the previously functioning system on it, just in case of hardware failure.