The amount of times my system freezes appears to be somewhat random, for instance it froze three times just today (Which led me to post this) and other times it would go days without freezing. Usually I will be running Zune, Steam and Google Chrome when it freezes (Though like I mentioned above, sometimes its fine for days without problems).
The specifics of it freezing are something I haven't encountered in any previous Windows OS, where it is what I would call a gradual freeze. First all audio stops, and the taskbar is frozen. Since I am usually in chrome, all system elements like textboxes and menus are are functional but aren't updating (You could type but the text shows up later in chunks, with no indication the field is selected) if you tried to head to the start screen via the windows key you could still click on any of the tiles, but they wont do anything.
For my hardware I have a dell touchscreen monitor, an nVidea GTX 260, intel Core i5 processor, a gigabyte motherboard.
I looked through the other threads of a similar nature and tried turning off automated defragmenting, but I think it might be a driver issue. As such, I have attached the required log files.
I thank you very much in advance for any assistance! It's a shame Microsoft hasn't made any publicity about these problems, since they seem to be plaguing a number of windows users. And if it's just drivers, I can't comprehend why they cant do something about it. I'm sure there are reasons, but their lack of even acknowledging fatal errors in windows 8 makes me a bit sad.
The specifics of it freezing are something I haven't encountered in any previous Windows OS, where it is what I would call a gradual freeze. First all audio stops, and the taskbar is frozen. Since I am usually in chrome, all system elements like textboxes and menus are are functional but aren't updating (You could type but the text shows up later in chunks, with no indication the field is selected) if you tried to head to the start screen via the windows key you could still click on any of the tiles, but they wont do anything.
For my hardware I have a dell touchscreen monitor, an nVidea GTX 260, intel Core i5 processor, a gigabyte motherboard.
I looked through the other threads of a similar nature and tried turning off automated defragmenting, but I think it might be a driver issue. As such, I have attached the required log files.
I thank you very much in advance for any assistance! It's a shame Microsoft hasn't made any publicity about these problems, since they seem to be plaguing a number of windows users. And if it's just drivers, I can't comprehend why they cant do something about it. I'm sure there are reasons, but their lack of even acknowledging fatal errors in windows 8 makes me a bit sad.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Release Preview
- CPU
- intel Core i5
- Memory
- 2 Kingston khx1600c9d3k2
- Graphics Card(s)
- nVidea GTX 260
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell ST2220T touchscreen
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- Seagate barracuda ST1000DM003 9YN162
- Keyboard
- Apple Wired Keyboard
- Internet Speed
- 7MBits