freezing

I see that people have freezing problems after installing but but the update freezes at 84% and not finished installng

I'm hoping someone can help me. I have a Dell XPS L501X laptop that freezes on start up if plugged in but NOT when running on the battery. My husband ran a bunch of tests, discovered hard drive was failing. Bought a new SATA solid state hard drive and bought a new windows 7 install and...

Hi, My computer specs are: Intel CPU Intel Core i7 6700 Quad Core LGA 1151 3.4GHz CPU Processor Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) CMK16GX4M2A2133C13 DDR4 2133MHz Vengeance LPX DIMM Black Crucial BX200 480G 2.5inch SSD Corsair RM550x 550W Power Supply Fully Modular 80 Plus Gold Corsair Hydro Series H55...

Please forgive me ahead of time, because while I'm okay with computers....I'm not exactly super smart with them, so in some cases I may ask you to explain things like I'm 5 :P Basically, everytime I play Civilization V, my computer crashes with "video_scheduler_internal_error". It also...

Hello this is the second time that it has happened where my computer will start lagging on all programs. I notice it will take a while to go to another page while browsing the internet, so i try to open task manager see if anything is off, but then suddenly task manager is also taking a while to...

Good afternoon, My name is Anthony and I have registered here after stumbling across a thread with similar issues to mine. I am in the processes of currently running a memory test on a PC where I work. It keeps freezing so that I have to kill the power and it will intermittently blue screen. I...

At first the power went out and the computer wouldn't boot, and kept trying to repair it but couldn't. Eventually booted it in safe mode and it froze after a minute or two, requiring a hard reset. When I restarted it, it was able to normal boot but continued to freeze after a few minutes and...

Recently my computer has been freezing up frequently. I have made sure it's not a heat issue or a driver issue. I used MTB to determine what the source of the problem was. I found out that the error, Description: Activation context generation failed for...

I'm having the exact same issue as original poster. Cold boot and on desktop. Usually 5-10 min in I'll lockup and freeze. Requires restart. From then on I have no more issues the rest of the day or night, even when playing high demand games. If I shut down or sleep it's hit or miss if it will...

Hello Windows Forum. When i boot my pc and log into windows I'm able to use it as normal, but after 10 - 15 minutes its freezes and I'm not able to do anything, I have to press my restart button to use it again. After the restart there is no more freezes. It only happens after a full shutdown...

So I just bought a Samsung 850 EVO 250gb SSD and wanted to install Windows 10 (64 bit) fresh on it. I downloaded the media creation tool for windows 10 and installed it onto a USB. Everything was fine and I installed windows 10 no problem onto my SSD but from the get go after installing Windows...

A couple days ago I installed new drivers for my GTX 970 all was going well but I noticed a lot of system lag and constant freezing. I usually put my computer to sleep and then wake it up because the boot time is very slow, but once I would wake it up it would freeze for a while and then come...

We have 4 2012r2 terminal servers in a farm and users are having random issues with pdf readers not printing, or saying no printers installed (printers are loaded as local printers on each server) Sometimes one reader will work and another wont and this morning opening a pdf in any reader would...

Hi, Upgraded to Windows 10, for 1 or 2 months ago. Now I am having issues with my computer. The problem is as following: When I am doing something on my computer for some time it freezes (both audio and visuals) for a few millisecs, maybe a sec. This happends about 10-15 times through a session...

Hey, hopefully someone here will be able to help me out. I bought a new GPU, a GTX 980 and after 3 days I got my first BSOD. A few days later I got another BSOD in WoW while playing only for a few minutes. After that every game I started first after I booted up my PC, would completely freeze...

Thank you for the help with my prior topic, but a new issue has arisen. I walked away from my computer for a while. When I got back, Chrome had frozen up, and it was so bad I couldn't even get Task Manager opened nor explorer responding in general. The other couple of windows I had open were...

I've got a very unusual problem, that's only recently started happening. When using AIM (AOL Instant Manager) and saving the logs of my IM conversations, eventually it freezes up. No error message, it simply hangs, goes transparrent-gray, and if I click it I get the Windows message "The program...

Hi, I have a big problem getting my Alienware MX14 to work with Windows. A few days ago, Windows forced me to upgrade to 8.1 which I did and it was working fine… then shut down my computer that night and booted it up the next day and it would freeze at the login screen every time, no matter...

I am using a Dell Dimension 3100 with an Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz with 2GB RAM. Also, I am running Windows 7. I am currently using WMP 12 to play DVDs and AnyDVD to help Iplay DVDs I buy when travelling. Recently, in England, I just bought a Star Trek: First Contact DVD. When I put it in my...

Hi All, I hope this is the correct forum to post this question. I have a Windows 7 computer. I use Internet explorer browser. I am on webcam video website chatting to my friend. For whatever reason, when I go to type it freezes. I push the button hard on my keyboard but I have to wait an...