My Compaq laptop started acting all weird and would constantly freeze on me
I bought a Compaq R3000 about a year ago and it seemed to run fine until recently yesterday. It started acting all weird and would constantly freeze on me. This would cause me to constantly having to restart the computer. Then finally today I have decided to reboot the computer, but now I can’t even get through the whole process because the computer continues to still freeze!! I’ve formatted the whole HD and everything. I thought it was a virus, but now I’m thinking it is a hardware problem. Please help me.
I think you might have a problem with your hard drive. Very often a laptop would freeze up because of installed spyware/asware programs, but by reinstalling the operating system you’ve eliminated any software related issues. Test it with Hitachi Drive Fitness test to see if it fails the test. User guide for Hitachi DFT test utility is located on the same page.
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:41 pm
My Fujitsu Amila laptop keeps on freezing at random times. i’ve restored like a million times the last month, done a hardware system check, reset all my power options, yesterday i had an error about Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter not working. I’ve disabled it and everything was working fine until this morning. had 2 freezes already. running windows 7. Is this a hardware problem ?
November 6th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Poonam,
It’s hard to tell what is wrong and here’s something you can try.
Miminie the laptop as much as you can. Remove the battery, DVD drive, wireless card, modem, etc…
Leave only main components such as motherobard, CPU, memory, hard drive. Test the laptop again. If it’s still freezes, there could be a problem with the motherboard.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 am
Hi, I’m using Toshiba Satellite Core 2 Duo/3 GB . My laptop is freezing up randomly and instantly. Keyboard, Monitor and Mouse all are frozen. I just have to reboot. I reinstalled windows by formatting my HD, still the problem is persisting. The core temperature doesn’t seem to be much 40-50 mostly. I even tried to remove one RAM stick, interchanging positions etc. Still my laptop is hanging randomly. It hangs in safe mode too. I ran the Memtest86+ for about 2 hrs, no errors. Any help is appreciated!
Thanks.
December 20th, 2008 at 11:40 am
My Laptop is a compaq v6500. It works great. However , when I stream a TV Show. About 1/2 or more thru the show My screen Bleeds or Looks Distorted and freezes.The Laptop just Freezes. Nothing will work exept turning power off. No Escape , nothing ! Ive tried ABC.com , NBC.com etc..This laptop is very well maintained. Plenty of RAM and everything. Any suggestions ??????
September 26th, 2008 at 10:43 am
I have an HP Pavillion laptop it is acting strange, it wont run properly, it freezes while you are using it, UNLESS you move the screen back and forth, once in a while you can find a spot that it will work for 2 or three minutes, then you have to wiggle the screen again. REALLY irritating! Sounds like something loose, but I have no idea what in the screen or it’s connections would make the silly thing freeze…> Any suggestions? THANKS
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
ShaolinPrince,
If it’s not HDD or RAM, could be faulty motherboard.
September 22nd, 2008 at 5:25 am
I have an IBM ThinkPad R51 and it just recently it stopped working. It was working fine and then the screen froze. I did a hard reboot but it does not show anything on the screen (the power and battery light comes on) and it did not go through its POST with no hard drive activity. I turn it on and off and sometimes it will display the IBM screen and I am able to put in the boot up password and I am able to log in to Windows (XP) but after a second or two, it freezes again. I tested the hard drive in my other ThinkPad R51 and it works perfectly for hours. I also replaced the memory in the defective one and it came up for a few minutes and then I get like a small static (for a second or two) on the screen and it freezes again and sometimes the screen will go black and then back to the frozen screen. When I can get the IBM boot screen, (maybe every 15 or 20 tries or if I leave it for a few hours) it will not allow me to get into the BIOS screen because I get that static and it freezes again. The hard drive is working and the memory is OK (I even swapped memory and memory slots). I cannot figure out what is the problem. Is it a video connection (I removed the keyboard and reconnected the video connection)? Would a video problem cause the freezing? Thanks for any help you can provide.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
What is the difference in the power required from the inverter to light up the 15″ Compaq Presario R3000 LCD backlight and the power required from the inverter of a Compaq Presario R3000 15.4″ LCD Backlight?
Thanks.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
When I start my toshiba A65-S126, it is fine. It shows toshiba logo, windows logo, and all that. But when it is about to start the windows, the screen does not show anything except the wallpaper. It does not freeze becoz I can start the Task Manager. So in order to use my computer, i have to run new task (I ran the Explorer.exe) through Task Manager. So what do you think? Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Willie
June 10th, 2008 at 5:38 am
I have a Compaq and when I turn it off it resumes windows. It is in logging off mode and is completely frozen. I have tried Ctrl Alt Delete. Lights are flashing and I have no idea what they mean. Today it got hot very quickly. I have no idea what to do. PLEASE HELP ME!!