- Apr 25, 2015
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Hi,
I've been having a problem with my PC for some time now. The problem originally started over a year ago possibly 2, but it went away by itself which is why I've never looked into it. However with the nature of my work and how busy I am at this moment in time, with the problem back it's really causing some major stress.
I have an Alienware Area-51 X58 from 2009. Specs are:
Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Intel core i7-920 2.67GHz
6GB DDR3 RAM 1333MHz
Nvidea Geforce GTS 250 (x2) SLI (512mb each)
Killer Xeno Pro Network Card
1000w PSU (Alienware brand I believe)
CPU Water Cooling
Windows 7 Home Premium 64
Onto the problem and how it occurs, it freezes on me completely. I can't move the mouse, I can't type anything on display and the actual display freezes so for example if I see a loading icon and it freezes during this loading icon spinning that spinning will stop and freeze also. The only way I can fix is to reboot manually via holding down the power button.
When it happens is mostly on start up + log in, so 9/10 it will freeze within a minute or so of logging in. Sometimes it will freeze whilst windows is loading up the login screen, or sometimes even on the black windows logo screen whilst booting. As I say most times it happens when I log in but it can be completely random and freeze during any of these points, it normally always happens more than once but never really any more than 3-4 times before I can go about my business. And very very rarely will it ever freeze once I've been on it for more than half hour. It never really happens, on the odd occassion it may just freeze after being on it for half hour but like I said this is very rare, it always seem to be some sort of start up problem.
Another issue that has occurred recently which seemed to appear when I started getting these freezing issues only this time round, is my Alienware AW23 monitor sometimes just stays in standby mode when I manually reboot. It never does this on first power up, and it doesn't happen all the time when I manually reset or do a reset via the start menu. But it does do it which makes the process of trying to get on my computer all that much longer because I can still hear it booting up so I have to leave it till I know it's definately on the log in screen then manually reset via power button as I don't want to do this mid-boot.
I recently thought it was my HDD failing or one of the 3 internals I had. Over the last week I've done some major testing with them, I've removed all of them cloned my OS Primary to a brand new WD 1TB and the problem still occurred, I thought it might be some bad files so I wiped the 1TB clean and installed fresh Windows 7. It didn't seem like it was freezing at first after the install but within an hour or so whilst doing Windows updates it just froze mid-update. And then I managed to get it on again without another freeze, I finished the updates, reset, and then turned it off. This morning I powered up and the first thing it did after I logged in was freeze, it's only froze the one time this morning.
So it's clearly not a HDD problem, nor it is anything to do with bad files... So what next? I read about perhaps clearing my CMOS? I don't really want to start buying new hardware as I plan on building my own rig later on this year. I literally need it to last me a few more months.
I understand this is extremely long, but I wanted to be as informative as possible as nothing annoys me more than somebody that posts a problem but doesn't let people know the circumstances, their system spec, or anything other than this is my problem help me.
So hopefully some of you helpful people will take the time to fully read through and any comments towards a fix are much appreciated.
Regards,
Kuzz
P.s - I also done some CPU monitoring last night to check the temp, when the computer was literally doing nothing, just download and installing Windows 7 updates, it was running between 75-85 sometimes hitting 90 max. I thought this was very hot, although I'm not sure what i7's run at, especially with CPU Water cooling I'd expect it to be lower? But as I said before freezing only happens a few times when I boot up for the first time of the day, after that it is normally fine for however long I leave it on for, I can play a game for an hour, or do Photoshop work with Dreamweaver open etc and it won't freeze so that makes me think it can't be a CPU issue otherwise the freezing would be much more common especially when doing more processing hungry tasks on my PC.
I've been having a problem with my PC for some time now. The problem originally started over a year ago possibly 2, but it went away by itself which is why I've never looked into it. However with the nature of my work and how busy I am at this moment in time, with the problem back it's really causing some major stress.
I have an Alienware Area-51 X58 from 2009. Specs are:
Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Intel core i7-920 2.67GHz
6GB DDR3 RAM 1333MHz
Nvidea Geforce GTS 250 (x2) SLI (512mb each)
Killer Xeno Pro Network Card
1000w PSU (Alienware brand I believe)
CPU Water Cooling
Windows 7 Home Premium 64
Onto the problem and how it occurs, it freezes on me completely. I can't move the mouse, I can't type anything on display and the actual display freezes so for example if I see a loading icon and it freezes during this loading icon spinning that spinning will stop and freeze also. The only way I can fix is to reboot manually via holding down the power button.
When it happens is mostly on start up + log in, so 9/10 it will freeze within a minute or so of logging in. Sometimes it will freeze whilst windows is loading up the login screen, or sometimes even on the black windows logo screen whilst booting. As I say most times it happens when I log in but it can be completely random and freeze during any of these points, it normally always happens more than once but never really any more than 3-4 times before I can go about my business. And very very rarely will it ever freeze once I've been on it for more than half hour. It never really happens, on the odd occassion it may just freeze after being on it for half hour but like I said this is very rare, it always seem to be some sort of start up problem.
Another issue that has occurred recently which seemed to appear when I started getting these freezing issues only this time round, is my Alienware AW23 monitor sometimes just stays in standby mode when I manually reboot. It never does this on first power up, and it doesn't happen all the time when I manually reset or do a reset via the start menu. But it does do it which makes the process of trying to get on my computer all that much longer because I can still hear it booting up so I have to leave it till I know it's definately on the log in screen then manually reset via power button as I don't want to do this mid-boot.
I recently thought it was my HDD failing or one of the 3 internals I had. Over the last week I've done some major testing with them, I've removed all of them cloned my OS Primary to a brand new WD 1TB and the problem still occurred, I thought it might be some bad files so I wiped the 1TB clean and installed fresh Windows 7. It didn't seem like it was freezing at first after the install but within an hour or so whilst doing Windows updates it just froze mid-update. And then I managed to get it on again without another freeze, I finished the updates, reset, and then turned it off. This morning I powered up and the first thing it did after I logged in was freeze, it's only froze the one time this morning.
So it's clearly not a HDD problem, nor it is anything to do with bad files... So what next? I read about perhaps clearing my CMOS? I don't really want to start buying new hardware as I plan on building my own rig later on this year. I literally need it to last me a few more months.
I understand this is extremely long, but I wanted to be as informative as possible as nothing annoys me more than somebody that posts a problem but doesn't let people know the circumstances, their system spec, or anything other than this is my problem help me.
So hopefully some of you helpful people will take the time to fully read through and any comments towards a fix are much appreciated.
Regards,
Kuzz
P.s - I also done some CPU monitoring last night to check the temp, when the computer was literally doing nothing, just download and installing Windows 7 updates, it was running between 75-85 sometimes hitting 90 max. I thought this was very hot, although I'm not sure what i7's run at, especially with CPU Water cooling I'd expect it to be lower? But as I said before freezing only happens a few times when I boot up for the first time of the day, after that it is normally fine for however long I leave it on for, I can play a game for an hour, or do Photoshop work with Dreamweaver open etc and it won't freeze so that makes me think it can't be a CPU issue otherwise the freezing would be much more common especially when doing more processing hungry tasks on my PC.
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