Comments on: My Compaq laptop started acting all weird and would constantly freeze on me

By: Sharad Agrawal

Sharad Agrawal — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:23 +0000

Hi,
I have compaq presario CQ 40 laptop. After working some time, It got freeze and anything like keyboard,mouse, scroll bar doesn’t work except turning on/off button. I have recovered many times but the problem is as it is. I have frustrated by restarting my computer again and again. Any suggestion would be really helpful for me.

~Sharad Agrawal

By: marieke

marieke — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:37:00 +0000

Hi , problem solved i removedthe battery and everything back to normal
cheers

By: marieke

marieke — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:54:45 +0000

Hi ,
All of a sudden everything was slow on my laptop Toshiba L20, WINDOWS XP HOME sp3. Every window I try to close hangs and I get the error “this program is not responding , end now“. The internet connection icon disappears and occasionally reappears. When I open up power options and click on a tab it freezes and I cannot end the program from task manager or any other way , the only way to turn it off is by shutting down the laptop with the power button. Also when I try to shut down the laptop via Turn off from the start menu I do not get the display screen with the options Turn off, Restart , hibernate , it just hangs with a blue screen and does not turn off, the only way I can turn it off is by holding down the power button for a few seconds. Sometimes when I install a program which needs a reboot after the completion of installation , I get `this program is not responding“power options“, run dll , etc, and it just hangs there until I close it with the power button.Also in task manager it shows cpu usage 15 % or a certain figure while system idle shows98% or 99% basically it is disproportionate.
It functions normally in safe mode , I get the screen with the options restart , turn off , hibernate etc . Power options also opens up and does not hang when I click one of the tabs only it gives lesser options than in normal mode.
I have tried removing all antivirus , firewalls etc , I have formatted and reloaded windows , but the same problems persist.
Anyone please shed some light as to what it could be hardware or software?

By: Soekie

Soekie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:41:39 +0000

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 ?

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:43:19 +0000

Poonam,

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.

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.

By: Poonam

Poonam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:14:09 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:40:53 +0000

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 ??????

By: SandyT

SandyT — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:43:32 +0000

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

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:15:11 +0000

ShaolinPrince,
If it’s not HDD or RAM, could be faulty motherboard.

By: ShaolinPrince

ShaolinPrince — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:25:29 +0000

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.