Freeze

borgus

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For a pre-Beta, Win 8 is impressive, but it freezes after a period of time - often while in media player.

The O/S has been clean installed, over installed and refresh installed repeatedly. Search is disabled via services.msc. Live tiles and various contact-the-net or sharing options are also disabled.

After the last refresh (from ISO CD), the system ran well for over a day, then stalled after about 90 minutes of WMP play. When this occurs the mouse is still active and a few items will respond to clicks. Most don't.

Often after a freeze, but not always, the NTFS file system on partition 1 (W8) as well as that on partition 2 (files) are corrupt. A second drive (W7) suffers the same fate. I.E.: the freeze hoses everything.

Event Viewer offers nothing that seems to be related. Suggestions and thoughts welcomed.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    W8
The only freezing problems I had were due to hardware issues. The freezing was intermittent with the mouse pointer sticking and freezing the system for about 30 seconds at a time. My G15 keyboard or more directly one of Microsoft's HID keyboard drivers was the culprit. I found a work around for the problem.

I've tested WMC for hours on end with no freezing problems at all, however I'm not so sure about WMP which did not run movies at all for me.

It might be worthwhile to try a different keyboard or mouse on the problem machine and see if the freezing issues persist.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro WMC
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home built
    CPU
    Q9650 @ 4.05 GHz
    Motherboard
    Gforce 780i SLI FTW
    Memory
    8GB Gskill DDR2 1200Mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    GTX-480
    Sound Card
    Asus D2 Xonar
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HannsG
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Gskill 120GB SSD
    PSU
    Thermal Take 1000watts
    Case
    Thermal Take Xtreme
    Cooling
    9 fans air cooled
    Keyboard
    G15 logitech
    Mouse
    G9 logitech
    Internet Speed
    50mbps
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