Brief freezes in windows

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byron · #1 Post by **byron** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:05 pm

going on about 2 years on my T42 and about 3-4 months ago I bought an 80gb travelstar drive and set up a dual boot Fedora/XP on my thinkpad.... every so often (maybe 5-10 times a day) there is a short freeze in windows where it looks like it is looked up and then it spits out all the input that it took in during the freeze. for example if im typing in word and it does it, it looks like it didn't get the 5-6 characters that i typed, but when it unfreezes it spits out what i typed while it was frozen.

seems like my machine used to do this way back when and i disabled the "graphical device power management" via battery maximizer... i've tried that and i still get the hiccups.... anyone have any idea. i've ran hdd tests on the drive and nothing. its gotta be something simple.

albert47 · #2 Post by **albert47** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:10 am

I have just bought a T43 early this month. Initially, it was running smoothly. I used to hybernate my system after using it.

After a week or 2, my system starts to freeze intermitently. I decide to reformat my system and reinstall from afresh.

After re-installing my system and the softwares that I need, the system works very smoothly, until I hybernate the system from home and turned it on in the office. When it recovered from the hybernation, I noticed my system is freezing intermitently again... and finally it crashes giving my a "Blue Screen of Death"! From then on, it starts to freeze on and off again.

I wonder what could have caused this problem? Could it be the different network (home and office) that causes the crash?

Could someone help?

byron · #3 Post by **byron** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:45 am

how much memory do you have?

I have 2gigs of memory... and if this issue is related to hibernation it could very well involve memory management because i installed a MS patch that was released (you had to call to get the patch) to fix hibernation/memory issues with computers that had more than a gig of memory.

albert47 · #4 Post by **albert47** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:40 pm

My system has 1GB RAM and 60GB Hard Disk space, running on 2GHz processor.

Then could it be the XP service pack 2 problem. I noticed that the SP2 had changed my shell32.dll file from the windows\system32 folder.

I had read somewhere that SP2 has some performance issue. I wonder if it is true.

byron · #5 Post by **byron** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:00 pm

i've rebuilt this machine at least a half dozen times.... im pretty sure all of those included SP2 and this is the first time i've seen this on my machine.. so i'm betting it probably isn't SP2.

#6 Post by **GomJabbar** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:38 pm

I've been noticing this quite recently myself on my T42. But my system is not that healthy anyway. I think I need to do a fresh install when I get home. I'll try a backup first, but I am not that optimistic. One of the problems I am having is that System Restore won't work. I want to get to a point where that is working again. I am also having some power management problems.

Regarding the intermittant freezing, this could be one of the more recent updates from Lenovo, Microsoft, or Symantec (Norton). I don't think I have any viruses or spyware. I keep everything up-to-date, and all scans come up clean.

davidspalding · #7 Post by **davidspalding** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:54 pm

An MS patch that is unavailable unless you call?

For any system with more than 1 GB of RAM (not uncommon)??

I'm highly skeptical. If the "freezes" are only momentary, I'd check if something is running in the background which hogs resources from time to time. Just my two cents....

byron · #8 Post by **byron** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:18 pm

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909095

thats the KB article im talking about.

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