Windows 7 "freezes" (chills?), and then "unfreezes" after about 1 minute.
- by gbc001
Hi, I have an Acer Timeline 1810T netbook (4GB RAM) with Windows 7 x64.
About once or twice a day, it "freezes" - the reason I put this in quotation marks is that it does not really freeze, as I you cant move mouse, etc.
I can move my mouse and jump between different applications, but I cant use the applications for anything. So I can jump between notepad and Firefox, but I cant browse to a new web page.
I have been trying to determine the source of this misery for a while now, and I suspect it has something to do with the hard drive - indirectly if not directly. Here are some screen shots of the resource monitor during a "freeze" and during normal operation:
Freeze:
http://imgur.com/Gcgq1.jpg
Normal operation:
imgur.com/mlHaI.jpg
As you can see, CPU is fine during freeze, but the disk is going bananas.. Does anyone have an idea of what these reading means, or about the problem in general? There seems to be no specific activity that sets this off - it can be during browsing, or during media playback with nothing else open.
The fact that I can see navigate to applications but not use them might suggest a hard drive problem as well? Maybe I can access the stuff that is in RAM, but not anything that would require interaction with the drive..
Very appreciative of any help!
