I've noticed a couple of annoying freeze posts around, and a few have reached a solution. I've looked around at what's been attempted and haven't felt things fitting with the issues I'm facing, so here comes another post...
What I have:
Dell Precision m6600 with an i72820qm 2.3ghz, 16gb ddr3 ram.
a 256gb SSD (and win 8 is running on a partition of this ssd)
Secondary 750gb 7200 rpm disk
Also has a touch panel and the ATI FirePro 8900M
What has been done:
Installed Windows 8 RP fresh over my old Windows 7 partition (had been using Windows 8 CP for a while that this was safe enough to delete)
Went onto Dell's website and downloaded the Win7 x64 drivers, Ran whatever driver instalation worked, then made my way through Device Manager's list of missing drivers, telling it to browse the Win 8 CP partition for the drivers (found drivers for everything)
Started using the computer, experienced the freeze up, ignored it a few times then decided to look in to it)
Thinking it was temperature, got Speedfan to look monitor the temperatures, turns out, no fans were detected.
After installing the Win7 version of my video drivers, the GPU fan started to be detected (as is still the only one I can detect)
Temperatures have been getting high, but during the freeze ups, they haven't been anywhere near 100Cº
I can hear a fan running, I ddon't think temperature is the main cause, but might be related
I also have CPU-Z running, and one thing that worries me is, the mulitplier is reaching numbers in the 30 areas, where my processor should only go to 23. I believe, this is the cause of the freezeups, but don't know how to proceed. Which drivers should I look into installing?
I'm attaching whatever information is generated by the Windows 8 Log Collector, let me know if any other information is needed.
I appreciate whatever help anyone can give =]
Edit:
Forgot to mention, I have run the Driver Verifier, no bsod or anything, so I disabled it.
What I have:
Dell Precision m6600 with an i72820qm 2.3ghz, 16gb ddr3 ram.
a 256gb SSD (and win 8 is running on a partition of this ssd)
Secondary 750gb 7200 rpm disk
Also has a touch panel and the ATI FirePro 8900M
What has been done:
Installed Windows 8 RP fresh over my old Windows 7 partition (had been using Windows 8 CP for a while that this was safe enough to delete)
Went onto Dell's website and downloaded the Win7 x64 drivers, Ran whatever driver instalation worked, then made my way through Device Manager's list of missing drivers, telling it to browse the Win 8 CP partition for the drivers (found drivers for everything)
Started using the computer, experienced the freeze up, ignored it a few times then decided to look in to it)
Thinking it was temperature, got Speedfan to look monitor the temperatures, turns out, no fans were detected.
After installing the Win7 version of my video drivers, the GPU fan started to be detected (as is still the only one I can detect)
Temperatures have been getting high, but during the freeze ups, they haven't been anywhere near 100Cº
I can hear a fan running, I ddon't think temperature is the main cause, but might be related
I also have CPU-Z running, and one thing that worries me is, the mulitplier is reaching numbers in the 30 areas, where my processor should only go to 23. I believe, this is the cause of the freezeups, but don't know how to proceed. Which drivers should I look into installing?
I'm attaching whatever information is generated by the Windows 8 Log Collector, let me know if any other information is needed.
I appreciate whatever help anyone can give =]
Edit:
Forgot to mention, I have run the Driver Verifier, no bsod or anything, so I disabled it.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 RP/ Win2k8 / Win8 RC
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell M6600
- CPU
- i7 2820QM 2.3ghz
- Memory
- 16gb ddr3
- Graphics Card(s)
- FirePro 8900M