Random freezes with windows 7 - 64 bit

Ok the repair disc only worked for a few days??? back to random re boots.

I re formatted & reinstalled the O/S and after about 4 hrs I just had my first restart...MS you suck! I guess I already know what the next Apple commercial will be about. Fix this now.

All,

Here are some items to try and some information we would like to know.

Clean Boot your system and test.

From the Action Center run the check for performance issues.

Open the Performance troubleshooter by clicking the Start button, and then clicking Control Panel. In the search box, type troubleshooter, and then click Troubleshooting. Under System and Security, click Check for performance issues.

If your system freezes, without going to a blue screen error, how do you get out of the freeze?  Do you have to reboot, are you able to reboot through Ctrl+Alt+Del or do you have to do a hard reset?

Check the Event Viewer for any warnings or errors.  Specifically look in the System and Applications logs.  Let us know the Source and Event ID.

If you are getting a blue screen error, what is the error code?

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I've been having the same problems for about a week now...since installing Win 7.  I get random system lock ups where I can't do anything.  I don't get the BSOD.  I can't alt-tab to another process.  I can't ctrl-alt-del to bring up task manager.  My mouse courser will switch to the busy icon.  Sometimes I'm able to move the mouse courser but as soon as I click on anything it freezes also.  The only way to get out of it is to hard reset.  A lot of times when I do this windows won't complete reboot.  I'll get "A disk read error occured press ctrl-alt-del to restart" message.

I checked the Event Viewer for errors.  I got a bunch of warnings and these two Error/Critical events:

I got this error event (2x today):

Log Name:      System

Source:        Service Control Manager

Date:          11/6/2009 1:31:28 PM

Event ID:      7016

Task Category: None

Level:         Error

Keywords:      Classic

User:          N/A

Computer:      Chad-PC

Description:

The NVIDIA Display Driver Service service has reported an invalid current state 32.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

  <System>

    <Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">7016</EventID>

    <Version>0</Version>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>0</Task>

    <Opcode>0</Opcode>

    <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-11-06T18:31:28.739600000Z" />

    <EventRecordID>8044</EventRecordID>

    <Correlation />

    <Execution ProcessID="632" ThreadID="3968" />

    <Channel>System</Channel>

    <Computer>Chad-PC</Computer>

    <Security />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data Name="param1">NVIDIA Display Driver Service</Data>

    <Data Name="param2">32</Data>

  </EventData>

</Event>

and this critical event:

Log Name:      System

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power

Date:          11/6/2009 1:20:50 PM

Event ID:      41

Task Category: (63)

Level:         Critical

Keywords:      (2)

User:          SYSTEM

Computer:      Chad-PC

Description:

The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

  <System>

    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />

    <EventID>41</EventID>

    <Version>2</Version>

    <Level>1</Level>

    <Task>63</Task>

    <Opcode>0</Opcode>

    <Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-11-06T18:20:50.956800000Z" />

    <EventRecordID>7919</EventRecordID>

    <Correlation />

    <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />

    <Channel>System</Channel>

    <Computer>Chad-PC</Computer>

    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />

  </System>

  <EventData>

    <Data Name="BugcheckCode">0</Data>

    <Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x0</Data>

    <Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0x0</Data>

    <Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x0</Data>

    <Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x0</Data>

    <Data Name="SleepInProgress">false</Data>

    <Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>

  </EventData>

</Event>

Everybody has different solutions and theories about what causes the problem. I do also read and try to figure out the problem I´ve had no success so far.

The problem is that there is no trigger to this. Microsoft support talk about do a safe boot and see what driver or program is causing this. But I can´t find such a thing. I can use the computer have MSN on, surfing the news site, Facebook, you tube and so on without any trouble and then a minute, an hour or a day later the computer freezing, without any change in activity, the same sites, the same programs. Sometimes I can boot the computer and only open up Media player and play some music. I don´t use any other application. The music plays for a minute to several hours and nothing happen and then suddenly the computer freezes.

Sometimes I can have 7 computer freezes in an hour and the after last reboot the computer works fine the rest of the day. And now the computer starts to rebooting al of a sudden.  

And I have not had a single blue screen, the computer freezes and i can´t do anything but reboot, can´t use any keyboard commands.

This is really annoying and in the lack of better words: WTF?!?!?!?!? :/