Random freezes with windows 7 - 64 bit

Since i had an upgrade from Windows 7 Home Premium to windows 7 Ultimate i have had many blue screen crashes and random crashes and all that goes with that.

I have reset the computer back to Windows 7 Home Premium using the Factory default Discs.

I then re upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate, my system now appears to be stable once again.

I think that the original upgrade must have been corrupted while installing thus giving rise to the many random  black and blue screen crashes.

I have learnt from this that everyone must after purchasing a computer to do a complete back up and to make Factory default and repair discs ,before doing anything with the computer.

Re:  Random freezes with windows 7 – 64 bit

Hello, Everybody!

I used to have the same problem for a long time; first, with Vista Home Premium 64 bit and after, with 7 Professional 64 bit (Upgrade), I tried hundreds of possible solutions to the problem and all of them failed, but I noticed that the most of the times at least one security program was involved in it, so I focused my struggle on them.   Finally I discarded my G Data, Counterspy and Prevx (just a few days after the license renewal) and I stopped my SUPERAnti from starting with Windows (I start it manually every day a little while after starting Windows) and now I don’t have any freezing problem. 

I don’t know if each of those antivirus and antispyware caused the problem by themselves or if it was the combination of all of them (and other apps.) together, possibly a kind of incompatibility?   But now that I’ve been using Avast IS, Malwarebytes , Windows Defender and my SUPERAnti, the only change made to my system, it’s working perfectly well.

Another thing that seemed to help a lot was stopping Windows Defrag and Backup and Restore of running automatically, in order to avoid that they could run at the same time that an antispyware or my antivirus scans.  First, I tried insistently to schedule everything in a manner that they didn’t run simultaneously, but there was always something to make them coincide sooner or later, so finally the only secure solution was using those Windows programs manually.

I’m really sorry about my Counterspy because it’s very good, but I haven’t finished making my defenses combination.  I will re-install it soon again and see what happens.  Probably I’ll have to disable my Windows Defender, but if it works right this time I win.  The next one to be added (let’s say a month after) will be TreatFire.   But I don’t know if too many security programs could be part of the problem (or the problem itself) that’s something else that I will find out this way.   I’ll let you know the results.

One more thing for 7 users (if using screen saver):  I suggest you to test how your computer works with and without screen saver.

Touchito

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Just wanted to post back - on a whim, I decided to try this. I disabled defrag, my AV and backup from automatically scanning (just make sure to scan manually on a regular basis) My freezes have slowed waaaaay down (I think Ive only had one incident since, and I changed it weeks ago) So it definitely seems to have helped.

I also made Windows update notify me of updates, but let me choose to install them. Not really sure if that had anything to do with it - I just did that coz I like to be given choices.

This fix may apply to your problem.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/random-deep-freezes-on-win7-ultimate-64-bit-caused/12d6b9d1-2d16-4f60-9ffe-996b5e82ea5b

 

Yes I use steam.

I also have the same problem. It freezes every hour and there's just a buzzing sound coming from my speakers.

I also have this annoying buzzing/high pitched sound coming from my speakers / headphones. It's that kind of sound when you turn your speakers to ultra loud without any kind of other sound coming from them. Only that my buzzing sound is clearly heard even when the volumes (win 7 volume and speakers volume) are very low. I'm thinking that could be it some audio drivers overlapping each other or something...?

As you can guess, I too have this freezing problem. It's a hard freeze, nothing works (keyboard, mouse). I need to manually reboot everytime. The computer never comes back "alive", unlike with some people here. I spent my last pennies and bought a brand new computer and then it does this... *SIGH*

Specs:

i7-2600

ASUS P8P67

8gb corsair XMS ram

Sapphire HD 6950

Crucial C300 64gb ssd

Sony Optiarc Dvd/Rw 706S

Corsair TX650 psu

Win 7 Pro 64bit

I've ran memory tests - all fine. Temperatures are low on CPU and GPU. I've switched my SSD cables from Intel's 6gb port to Marvell 6gb port. Everything looks ok, but still my computer hard freezes every now and then. It usually occurs when I leave it idle for 20-30 minutes. It can also freeze in middle of surfing the web or copying or deleting files, anything really. The weird thing is that usually when I play something, e.g. The Witcher game, the computer DOESN'T freeze... Although that can just be coincidence since I haven't tested it that much.

I'm really losing all hope here. I've tried so many things already. I'm starting to think that it could all be because of some bad/not working port/thing on my motherboard... which would really be a pain in the @ss to diagnose. Still crossing my fingers on hopes that it's a driver/software bug of some sort...

The event viewer log doesn't give out anything out of normal before the freezing occurs so no help from there.

Is it possible that it's USB or Network adapter related? Some bad drivers perhaps? Some motherboard drivers and win 7 drivers colliding and causing error? I dont even surely know what causes a hard freeze... Damn. Any help is appreciated!