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| Member  Posts: 37 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Australia |  How many times did your mini freeze? -
09-12-2009, 08:08 AM
I recently have found out Netbook freezes quite often. Mine froze more than 15 times. My roommate's freezes daily, ASUS EeePC 1000HE, sometimes more than once per day, Windows XP Home SP3. One of his friends' Acer 10" netbook also freezes frequently. Now I wonder is this a design flow or just the CPU is too weak. One more thing, mine's CPU died after only one week's use at the end of July. Dell support technician came and replaced the mother board(he didn't find out CPU failure first time) and CPU. By my count, the mini froze 11 times in preloaded Windows XP, froze 6 times in Windows 7 RC so far. "Blue Screen of Death", once in XP, twice in 7. Below is Windows 7's memory dump report (same twice): OS - 6.1.7100.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID 3081 BCCode - 116 BCP1 - 83410510 BCP2 - 8A020C70 BCP3 - 00000000 BCP4 - 00000002 OS Version - 6_1_7100 Service Pack - 0_0 Product 256_1 First time was after downloaded and installed 9 critical updates; Second time was I accidentally chose HD channel (1080i) to watch in Media Centre. What about you? Is my situation normal? Cheers! Inspiron 1300n|1GB RAM|60GB HDD|DVD+RW|GMA 900|1280x800 Both run with Windows XP Home SP3 + Windows 7 Ultimate RC dual-OS. |
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| Member Posts: 37 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Australia | 
09-12-2009, 11:59 AM
One vote for Never...I'm amazed...... Inspiron 1300n|1GB RAM|60GB HDD|DVD+RW|GMA 900|1280x800 Both run with Windows XP Home SP3 + Windows 7 Ultimate RC dual-OS. |
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| Retired Mini user  Posts: 1,577 Join Date: Oct 2008 |
09-12-2009, 01:03 PM
Between two Mini 9s and a Mini 10v, none of them have ever "frozen". One of them had a blue screen of death when I was trying a different video driver once, but that's it. |
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| Member Posts: 93 Join Date: Apr 2009 |
09-12-2009, 05:39 PM
My Acer 9' one froze once. That's called "having a motherboard failure". Haven't had any problems with my Mini 9 or 10, though Ubuntu installing was kind of dodgy on the 10 [for obvious reasons, + it won't restart from there ... neither will my Mac Mini install]. -2 GB RAM -4 GB SSD [2 GB SD Card: getting 16 GB SDHC] Sold for $180 so I could buy Mini 10, XP/Ubuntu, 160GB HD, 1GB RAM, 1366x768 screen, 6-cell for $260. [Extra screen space IS AMAZING, as is having a working keyboard] |
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| Member Posts: 37 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Australia |
09-12-2009, 08:04 PM
Thanks for voting and comments! Inspiron 1300n|1GB RAM|60GB HDD|DVD+RW|GMA 900|1280x800 Both run with Windows XP Home SP3 + Windows 7 Ultimate RC dual-OS. |
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| Member Posts: 51 Join Date: Aug 2009 |
09-12-2009, 08:26 PM
Hi I voted for 2 times as I have had a few frezzes mainly due to asking my Mini 1010 to do to much, I reloaded the other day after reading about the GPS and I have to say since a re-load with 7 I did the driver trick and all is fine so much so my main laptop is now a desk top. as I love this mini. This is the best Travel mate I have had!  |
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| Member Posts: 37 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Australia |
09-14-2009, 04:12 AM
My mini froze 4 times on loading Windows 7, the loading bar screen. It happened espectially when I plugged in external mouse/optical drive and flash drive (USB). PS: Used AC power, not battery. Inspiron 1300n|1GB RAM|60GB HDD|DVD+RW|GMA 900|1280x800 Both run with Windows XP Home SP3 + Windows 7 Ultimate RC dual-OS. |
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| Member Posts: 37 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Australia |
09-14-2009, 12:37 PM
It seems the GMA 500 driver for 7 (I think it just an optimized Vista version) is not very stable. The system went into blue screen today when I played a FLV video with Media Player Classic (the latest version for Vista, and the video quality is HD 540p). I personally think Intel doesn't really care that much about the GMA 500, XP driver is even worse than this...  Inspiron 1300n|1GB RAM|60GB HDD|DVD+RW|GMA 900|1280x800 Both run with Windows XP Home SP3 + Windows 7 Ultimate RC dual-OS. |
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| Junior Member Posts: 12 Join Date: Aug 2009 |
09-14-2009, 11:20 PM
It's frozen for me about 2-3 times. Decided something was up with how the hardware was being handled, installed the latest audio and video drivers and flashed the BIOS to the latest and greatest... No more complaints here. |
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