Recent content by bassexpander

My problem turned out to be a bad hard drive. I literally replaced my entire computer before I figured that out. Would have gone with a hard drive change as one of the first things, if my Western Digital HDD checking program hadn't been telling me all was fine all along. :(

I have some good news... I think i might have solved the problem. Again... points to hardware. In my case, the CPU needed some new thermal grease. This was confusing, because all temps seemed normal. The thing that finally led me in that direction was reading about it on here, and reading...

I ran some CPU and GPU torture tests. Overheating is not the problem. There was a blip on the GPU test where the temperature went up and down for about 30 seconds, then was back to a normal straight, slightly upward-sloping temp rise -- I assume this happened because the computer problem...

Well, I am getting some freezes now on pages that are flash-heavy... grr.... happens more when I'm using Firefox than IE8. Problems correct themselves far more quickly now that I'm off of wifi and hard-wired into the internet. Fewer and further in-between, as well. I wonder if there could be...

I hadn't thought of that, but that's not possible, because I was experimenting with different encryption methods and was changing passwords. Still had issues at all times. Nope, it's a bad USB dongle. Come to think of it, it fell off of the desk some time ago, and probably got damaged then. I...

Well, it appears that I may have a damaged/kaputt usb wifi router dongle. I have no troubles with a wired connection, and my wife's seems to work fine on my machine. My wife was having issues of a different nature, which we also seem to have fixed, thanks to her Vista telling her she had a...

Also, some people are having difficulty with wifi router connections causing freeze-ups. If you are running off of a wifi router, try ditching the router for a few days and seeing if the problem persists. Some are having more luck with AES encryption settings than TKIP.

Not sure anyone is following me here.... Could a wifi router be causing my computer to lock-up? I only ask because my wife's 64-bit Vista computer is now locking up and completely shutting down on its own once and a while. We both run off of the same wifi signal from an IPTime router using...

Ok, worked fine for 24 hours, but now started having issues again. It may have something also to do with sleep mode and/or power settings? I've tried everything. Odd thing is, sometimes this happens to me after a restart, and other times not ... so sleep mode may have nothing to do with it...

Not sure about the OP, but as for me, I did a clean install over the original install I created using the Digital River file I had purchased from Microsoft. So this 2nd install was clean, going through all of the menus and reinstalling all Windows files. I used Custom Install to do this, and...

I want you to try something for me. Try using a wired external mouse (non-Microsoft model) and see if that helps. Your situation is different, becuase it's a laptop, but my Win7 64-pro desktop began experiencing the same exact issues as of a few months ago. It had been fine for several...

I want to mention that I have had several continuing freezing issues, and it seems that there is a common incompatibility issue with wireless mouses/keyboards and windows 7. After troubleshooting virtually every possible thing on my computer, dumping my Microsoft Wireless keyboard and mouse for...

Ok, I'd like to share what's been going on so far... I've now been trying an old wired mouse and keyboard. So far so good. Seems like other people have also had issues with wireless mouses and/or keyboards in Windows 7. This issue seems to go back quite far, and continues. Some are able...

Ok, so neither stick of Ram is the problem. :(::: This is awful! Freezing started again. Will now turn my attention to the microsoft keyboard, and will try a non-wifi one from work tomorrow. Don't understand why that would be just fine for a long time, then have issues?

Well, I'm hoping it's the Ram. Didn't read the minidump, but what I am doing is trying single channels of Ram until I (hopefully) find the stable stick. I know which one didn't work so far, and am running the 2nd by itself now. I looked at the caps on the mainboard, and they seemed OK (at...