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 Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:47 pm Post subject: Netbook freezes when on battery power |
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I've been trying to fix this computer for a few hours now but I can't seem to find the exact cause of why it freezes.
I know this, however;
- Windows 7 Starter
- Freezes when watching a YouTube video
- Freezes when trying to open a PDF file
- Freezes when downloading (even when just using speedtest.com)
- Freezes when using Windows Media Player
- Freezes when seeing an animated GIF on a webpage
- Freezes a lot less when in Safe Mode, but it still freezes sometimes.
- Freezes a lot less when I take out the battery, but it still freezes sometimes.
You can probably understand how all this makes solving the issue a lot harder. I've tried downloading drivers but it keeps freezing before the download completes.
I'm typing this on my phone right now.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Barnold Swolezzenegger
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds almost like bad sectors in the hard drive. Set it to do a diskcheck on boot and have it try and correct them.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Apotheoun wrote: | | Sounds almost like bad sectors in the hard drive. Set it to do a diskcheck on boot and have it try and correct them. |
OP, to do this press Winkey + R (start, inbetween ctrl and alt and press R), then type msconfig and press enter
go to the boot tab and check the box
i don't see it on mine for some reason
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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Or just run CMD and type chkdsk (drive letter, probably c /f /r
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the responses.
I tried it but unfortunately it did not solve the issue...
I can't reformat right now because I can't download a version of Windows 7.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like CPU/GPU throttle. If its on battery its more than likely switching to performance mode for power, and that means everything clocks down. But when on wire its in high performance.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Any errors in the event viewer?
start -> type 'event viewer' into the search.
and disable any form of power saving to see rule in/out hero's theory.
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| Hero wrote: | | Sounds like CPU/GPU throttle. If its on battery its more than likely switching to performance mode for power, and that means everything clocks down. But when on wire its in high performance. |
Yeah, I already thought of that, but even if I put it on Normal Usage instead of Power Saver (or something), it still freezes a lot faster when it's running on battery power.
Just to be sure this time, I went to the advanced settings and made sure the "When on battery power..."-settings were exactly the same as the "When plugged in..."-settings. But it didn't change anything about the freezing.
| SF wrote: | Any errors in the event viewer?
start -> type 'event viewer' into the search.
and disable any form of power saving to see rule in/out hero's theory. |
Well, there are like 10 errors and 3 warnings, but I think those are all because of the fact that I have to turn the computer off by pressing the power button until it powers off instead of shutting it down the right way.
What would I be looking for to determin if it's because of the freezing and not the forcefully shutting down? (or vice versa, or both)
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are they all by the same source? give us some of the 'general' info off some of them.
also, has this always happened? can you system restore to a time when it didn't if it started occurring recently?
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| SF wrote: | are they all by the same source? give us some of the 'general' info off some of them.
also, has this always happened? can you system restore to a time when it didn't if it started occurring recently? |
I couldn't do system restore because it has been occurring since January, and the earliest restore point is somewhere in late February.
However, I just found out that the pc was first used on December 15, like less than a month before the problem started, so it might as well be a hardware problem.
I told the owner to simply send it back since it's still under warranty, but she doesn't want to because then she'd have no computer for a month...
I'm on my way home now, and she's coming over with her netbook tomorrow.
Will update with new info as soon as possible.
Edit:
Well, I just created a second partition and installed Windows 7 on it. Been testing it for about a week now and it hasn't frozen since. Problem solved.
Thanks for the help, everyone.
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