Hi all, I need help. Needing a new Laptop I didn't mind that it was a superseded model and had Vista loaded because it was cheap and in less then a month I would be able to purchase Windows 8. Good plan, maybe a little naive but I have been let down badly as Windows 8 won't play nicely with my new laptop.
I am suffering dozens of random freezes and the only way out is to hold the start button until it turns off. Almost all of them happen when I am typing something. In notepad, in email (WLM), entering data online, even entering my Windows 8 activation product key, very few if any actually happen running a program. I can play Poker for hours but soon as I type something I grit my teeth as it could freeze at any moment, sometimes I can type a word, a paragraph or nearly a full email but eventually it will freeze.
I have tried a refresh or two, I have loaded all the latest drivers from ASUS, I have done a clean re-install or two and not loaded any ASUS drivers thinking it was a driver problem, but to no avail. It has frozen once already typing this submission. I no longer type online, I use wordpad on my desktop and save after each line because as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow it will freeze.
The event logs are surprisingly clean however the last freeze before this freeze mentioned the Wifi card Qualcomm Atheros AR 928x but I'm sure the driver is the latest (3.0.0.130 dated 3/7/2012).
The last two freezes have been for IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL see the dump below.
112512-61760-01.dmp 25/11/2012 10:09:40 AM IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x0000000a 0x00000000 0x00000002 0x00000000 0x81da0fbc halmacpi.dll halmacpi.dll+f995 Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL Microsoft® Windows® Operating System Microsoft Corporation 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) 32-bit ntoskrnl.exe+990a4 ntoskrnl.exe+188fbc ndis.sys+e0a7 wsimd.sys+8bee C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\112512-61760-01.dmp 2 15 9200 139,448
System Laptop ASUS X85Se
Pentium T3400
2GB RAM
250 GB HDD
Atheros AR928X WiFi Card
Thinking it was maybe a Ram problem I tried the Ram from my wife's laptop (same type & speed) in both 2 GB and 4 GB configurations but same same. She is running Windows 7 and no problems whatsoever.
I thought it may also have been a display driver but I can find no evidence for that.
Not wishing to foist this experience on any of my family and friends I have warned them off Windows 8 until it is a little more stable. I just want a laptop that works.
After the second refresh , I had trouble installing any Windows 8 updates due to error 80073712 and not much turns up when I google windows 8 with that error it's mostly Windows 7 stuff.
After just finishing another refresh (my fourth) I finally got all the Windows 8 updates to install and guess what, it just froze another two times writing this.
Anyone have any ideas? please answer before I have to install Mint for my sanity, I will not go back to Vista.
I read how others just used Firefox instead of IE 10 but it can't be that simple.
kenshep
I am suffering dozens of random freezes and the only way out is to hold the start button until it turns off. Almost all of them happen when I am typing something. In notepad, in email (WLM), entering data online, even entering my Windows 8 activation product key, very few if any actually happen running a program. I can play Poker for hours but soon as I type something I grit my teeth as it could freeze at any moment, sometimes I can type a word, a paragraph or nearly a full email but eventually it will freeze.
I have tried a refresh or two, I have loaded all the latest drivers from ASUS, I have done a clean re-install or two and not loaded any ASUS drivers thinking it was a driver problem, but to no avail. It has frozen once already typing this submission. I no longer type online, I use wordpad on my desktop and save after each line because as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow it will freeze.
The event logs are surprisingly clean however the last freeze before this freeze mentioned the Wifi card Qualcomm Atheros AR 928x but I'm sure the driver is the latest (3.0.0.130 dated 3/7/2012).
The last two freezes have been for IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL see the dump below.
112512-61760-01.dmp 25/11/2012 10:09:40 AM IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x0000000a 0x00000000 0x00000002 0x00000000 0x81da0fbc halmacpi.dll halmacpi.dll+f995 Hardware Abstraction Layer DLL Microsoft® Windows® Operating System Microsoft Corporation 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) 32-bit ntoskrnl.exe+990a4 ntoskrnl.exe+188fbc ndis.sys+e0a7 wsimd.sys+8bee C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\112512-61760-01.dmp 2 15 9200 139,448
System Laptop ASUS X85Se
Pentium T3400
2GB RAM
250 GB HDD
Atheros AR928X WiFi Card
Thinking it was maybe a Ram problem I tried the Ram from my wife's laptop (same type & speed) in both 2 GB and 4 GB configurations but same same. She is running Windows 7 and no problems whatsoever.
I thought it may also have been a display driver but I can find no evidence for that.
Not wishing to foist this experience on any of my family and friends I have warned them off Windows 8 until it is a little more stable. I just want a laptop that works.
After the second refresh , I had trouble installing any Windows 8 updates due to error 80073712 and not much turns up when I google windows 8 with that error it's mostly Windows 7 stuff.
After just finishing another refresh (my fourth) I finally got all the Windows 8 updates to install and guess what, it just froze another two times writing this.
Anyone have any ideas? please answer before I have to install Mint for my sanity, I will not go back to Vista.
I read how others just used Firefox instead of IE 10 but it can't be that simple.
kenshep
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS Laptop
- CPU
- Intel T3400
- Memory
- 2 GB