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| Member Posts: 47 Join Date: Dec 2008 |  Windows 7 locks up if left for a while -
01-12-2009, 09:43 AM
My windows 7 keeps locking up if I leave it alone for a while. Screen is on so it isn't sleeping (or at least it didn't finish sleeping). I don't have any unknown device drivers. Anyone have a suggestion. |
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| Super Moderator  Posts: 5,774 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New Hampshire | Re: Windows 7 locks up if left for a while -
01-12-2009, 02:54 PM
I haven't seen this so far. Mini 9|2GB RAM|64GB RunCore|Intel 5300|Windows 8 |
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| Member Posts: 42 Join Date: Dec 2008 | Re: Windows 7 locks up if left for a while -
01-12-2009, 05:02 PM
no problems here as well. Check your event viewer and see if there is anything that is causing it. |
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| Junior Member Posts: 11 Join Date: Jan 2009 | Re: Windows 7 locks up if left for a while -
01-12-2009, 05:34 PM
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My situation is i'm locking either when I hit the power button (sleep) or on a resume. Build 7000, no drivers unknown, etc. Don't know how to proceed. Thoughts? | |
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| Member Posts: 47 Join Date: Dec 2008 | Re: Windows 7 locks up if left for a while -
01-12-2009, 06:04 PM
I thought it was the screen saver but I disabled it and it is still happening. I am going to turn off all automatic sleep and power setting to see if that helps. I think it is a power issue. |
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| Member Posts: 47 Join Date: Dec 2008 | Re: Windows 7 locks up if left for a while -
01-12-2009, 08:05 PM
seems to be getting worse. It locks up almost immediately after not touching it. Not sure what is doing it but it is pretty much instant. I am going to start deleting programs and see if there is something that is causing it. |
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| Member Posts: 47 Join Date: Dec 2008 | Re: Windows 7 locks up if left for a while -
01-12-2009, 09:58 PM
Decided to do a clean install to see if I can fix it. It was pretty much unusable as it was. |
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| Member Posts: 47 Join Date: Dec 2008 | Re: Windows 7 locks up if left for a while -
01-12-2009, 11:53 PM
Did a clean install and it locked up withing a few minutes. |
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| Member Posts: 30 Join Date: Oct 2008 | Re: Windows 7 locks up if left for a while -
01-13-2009, 02:05 AM
Not the same system, Dell E1705, and I have had the same thing happen just to let you know. |
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| Member Posts: 47 Join Date: Dec 2008 | Re: Windows 7 locks up if left for a while -
01-13-2009, 11:11 AM
I think my problem is related to the SD card. I changed the driver to the hitachi microdrive (to make it a fixed disk so I could put my dropbox files on the sd card). The driver worked fine in xp but I think that is the problem in Windows 7. Some how I screwed it up so that even putting in the SD card results in a blue screen. So I am going to try with no SD card for a few days and see what happens. Any suggestions on how to do a work around with the sd card? I have a 16 gb sd card and would really like to use it for the dropbox files. I may just try to install some programs on the sd card instead of files. |
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