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
    2014-02-17T20:51:55+00:00

    Ari,

    So far, from the moment I downloaded the BIOS update, my computer has not frozen once. I am beginning to let myself hope that the problem has been resolved FINALLY!!!!

    I BELIEVE that this is the link that I used:  http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers

    My laptop even starts up faster now.

    When I get home, I can double-check the link if anyone is having problems with it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-17T20:32:50+00:00

    Hi Dalasq,

    Can you please link the Acer BIOS update that you used? Has the freezing problem resolved?

    Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-02-10T16:58:13+00:00

    Mr. Pinaki,

    I believe that I have fixed my issue. For my specific laptop, Acer had released a BIOS update for it, which SEEMS to have worked. I am still testing it to see if the freezing occurs, but since it has not in the last few days, I am beginning to think that I have rid myself of the problem at LONG LAST!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-02-07T19:24:59+00:00

    Mr. Pinaki,

    I found this fix for windows 7 that sounds similar to what I am experiencing. Here is the link in case you think it might help me.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2265716/en-us

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-02-06T17:33:08+00:00

    Mr. Mohanty,

    I'm just following up with you to see if you have any more solutions/proposals for me. As you can imagine, I am rather anxious to resolve this issue.

    I thank you and appreciate your time.

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