Windows 7 Freezing

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Hey guys, I am having problems with windows 7 freezing after I leave it for a short while.

Usually if I leave the computer idling for about 20-30 mins, I come back to find it has frozen, I can still move the mouse though can't select anything, the freezing corrects itself after 30-60 seconds, it's just abit annoying. Any ideas?


Specs:
Windows 7 64bit
Q6600 @ Stock
Asus P5Q Pro
Corsair 4GB 1066mhz Ram
ATi 3850 PRO
2 x Samsung 1TB F3's (RAID 0)
 
I had this problem so I updated my display drivers (win 7 64bit). Seems O/K now.
 
Do you have any energy saving modes or screen saver turned on?

Had issues with mine last night, wouldn't wake up and reboots kept getting a flashing cursor. sorted it in the end though.
 
Hilary Briss said:
Same old windows
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Yeah have to agree here, just installed win 7 on my system yesterday, not that impressed so far, Apps seem to open slightly faster, but overall I don't think it's any faster or any more stable
than vista was IMO, although I may change my mind over the next few days :D

I've had issues with my mouse cursor freezing a couple of times as well :suspect:
 
CruisingComet said:
Yeah have to agree here, just installed win 7 on my system yesterday, not that impressed so far, Apps seem to open slightly faster, but overall I don't think it's any faster or any more stable
than vista was IMO, although I may change my mind over the next few days :D

I've had issues with my mouse cursor freezing a couple of times as well :suspect:
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Dunno, my laptop running 7 will now go from cold boot to displaying a website in 45 seconds

Keep the drivers updated and make good use of CCleaner and or ATF to keep things fresh, I have an P4 XP machine that has been running since 2003 with nothing but memory enhancement, original HDD and OS install, still pretty zippy.

IMHO 7 is everything that Vista should have been, not a great leap forward.
 
OSB said:
IMHO 7 is everything that Vista should have been, not a great leap forward.
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Yeah maybe I expected to much... it's faster at loading apps, buy then a new OS install is always faster at the begining, TBH I was expecting more,
especially as I went to 64bit & doubled my ram to 4GB, anyway It's early days and I'm only just finding my way around it ;)
 
Hilary Briss said:
Same old windows
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Mac user ay?...

If it's that bad why does it have a 90% market share?:p

OSB said:
Dunno, my laptop running 7 will now go from cold boot to displaying a website in 45 seconds

Keep the drivers updated and make good use of CCleaner and or ATF to keep things fresh, I have an P4 XP machine that has been running since 2003 with nothing but memory enhancement, original HDD and OS install, still pretty zippy.

IMHO 7 is everything that Vista should have been, not a great leap forward.
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There was nothing wrong with Vista anyway, Microsoft just smartened it up and tweaked it a bit. Luckily for them the ney sayers got confused and thought it was a new OS and didn't launch a hate campaign against it.

Pretty much like win95-win98

As for the OPs problem, sorry, no idea, haven't had a problem like that before..
 
7 is vista with a smaller footprint. simplez.

as for the freezing, id update all of you drivers from the manufacturers websites rather than the windows ones (although the windows ones have been fine for a lot of my hardware) for starters. otherwise try the usual memory tests etc and see how you get on.
 
well I have recently installed Win 7 on 2 PCs in my house, my AMD 4400+ X2 and 2gb ram and the wife's old P4 machine. Works very well on both. Really can't complain.

Can't wait to upgrade my PC though and pass mine to the wife, it's 5 years old now and it's definitely time for a change :D
 
Harvey_nikon said:
Do you have any energy saving modes or screen saver turned on?

Had issues with mine last night, wouldn't wake up and reboots kept getting a flashing cursor. sorted it in the end though.
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I have no screensavers enabled and just checked through the power saving settings, will see if it makes any difference.

I have been using Windows 7 for a couple of weeks now, coming from Vista the differences weren't drastic but overall I prefer the Windows 7 experience. But yeah Windows 7 is was Vista should have been to begin with.
 
Hilary Briss said:
Same old windows
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unusual for you to have a glib, small minded comment to make :nuts:

Win 7 is very stable, ive been running it on both my laptop and office machine since december with NO problems at all.
 
I would be tempted to put up with it for as long as poss if you cannot find anything obviously wrong. I have had win 7 ultimate 32bit on mine since christmas, and I would say that only recently it has just settled down and behaving as it should :D
 
Before I went back to my tried and trusted XP64bit, I did notice that Windows Media Player used a lot of the CPU for streaming, in Win7 Ultimate 64bit.

Might not be the same in yours but worth a wee check.
 
Check to see it the Hard drive is set to switch off after xx minutes under the advanced Power options
 
I'm loving Windows 7, I do have one persistent problem though...

Power Management, in particular sleep and resume / hibernation etc - buggy as hell. Across more than 1 PC too, sometimes it just hangs for minutes with a black screen and white cursor top left when I try a resume....have to hold power button down, aftwer which, I am prompted to delete the session data...

Sorry to go slightly OT.

G.
 
Yeah I have already set my drives to not shut down. Does anyone else have their taskbar set to auto-hide? I am wondering if this could be the problem.
 
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