Windows 8 and 8.1 Randomly Freezing My Entire Laptop

Anonymous
2013-10-28T00:03:16+00:00

Hello All,

I recently bought a brand new laptop from Amazon, a very sexy Acer Aspire that I absolutely love! The only problem with this gorgeous piece of work is that I can't use it that much!

It came with Windows 8 and worked fine for the first week, but then it started to randomly freeze. At the time, I thought it was WoW causing the freezing on the machine since that is all I was using it for at first. Several weeks later, when I started to play WoW less and do more on the computer, the freezing would still occur at the most random of times, no matter what I was or was not doing!

Let me be clear. When I say that this computer freezes, I mean that the cursor is frozen, it registers NO input of any kind, even if I faceroll the keyboard and run all of my fingers across its beautiful touch screen. What's equally annoying is that there is NO warning that it's about to happen. When the freeze occurs, I cannot do ANYTHING on the computer.

Once it freezes, the ONLY thing that I can do to fix it is to perform a hard restart, which I HATE to do.

I thought that the problem might be fixed once I upgraded it to 8.1, so I was very excited to install it, but that has not been the case. The problem has been consistent in its occurrence and annoyance.

I cannot, for the life of me, imagine what the issue might be, but if anyone may be able to provide a permanent solution to this problem, I would be eternally grateful to them.

Thank you very much for your time, and I look forward to hearing back from you very soon.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-11T08:22:48+00:00

    That Must because there is a background app/s that is causing heavy impact

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-20T19:30:35+00:00

    I have the exact same issue, I have the same laptop too! Acer Aspire IV, with its gorgeous touch screen. I've had this laptop for a year now and the issue recently started, I am still looking for a solution and this is really annoying me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-30T17:33:48+00:00

    I  have the same problem. It started in win 8. When I  to 8.1 it happened less. Then I upgraded to win 10 and things worked well for several months. After the anniversary update it started again and now I get the bsod with message thread stuck in driver or TPC watch dog violation. I have done clean install multiple times and still no resolution. At this point the computer is basically useless.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-01-01T17:59:43+00:00

    Hi,

    Considering the age of the thread and to avoid confusion, we would recommend creating a new thread, so the community can focus on that thread and for us to assist you better. To create a new thread, check this out: Community.

    Regards.

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