Greetings - I have an HP pavilion a340n that freezes
every day (23 to 25 hours after booting up the computer-
you can almost set your clock by it).
(by freeze I mean the keyoard and mouse don't do a
thing. the clock stays frozen in time from when it locks
up, etc. Have to use the power button to reboot).
It did not freeze in safe mode, however. Therefore, I
figured something got hosed. I nuked the drives and did a
clean install of WIndows XP Pro on the machine.
Following the clean install, it no longer froze on me.
However, as soon as I installed the updates from WIndows
update, the freezing began again. I did a system restore
and tried to install updates one at a time (to isolate)
but I was unable to figure out which one caused the
problem (it may be a combo of software and updates, or a
couple updates in tandem, etc).
The system freezes nearly eveyr 24 hours regardless of
whether I'm on the computer using an application, if it's
just sitting there, if the screen saver is on - it makes
no difference. When the time comes, it freezes.
Also, I've let it freeze with the task manager open and
it shows no strange spike in any application or procees,
nor does CPU utilization seem poor (2.6 gig pentium 4
proccesor).
The "Event Viewer" also shows no unusual activity.
I considered that it might be a hardware problem, but why
would it work in safe mode, or prior to my updates?
It crashes nearly 24 hours after I boot it, regardless of
when I boot it, so the crash is based on the amount of
time the system has been running (not clock time or based
on some scheduled proccess near as I can tell)
Again, the computer will not stay up longer than 25 hours
without freezing. And it will not freeze prior to being
on for 23 hours. I can't help but think there is
something to this timing - (ie- is that how long it takes
for a buffer to overrun, a page file to get too large, a
power supply to send some kind of spike? - just
brainstorming)!
This problem has been hosing me for a few months now, and
I am stumped. It's quite a pain to have to reboot the
machine every day! Any help would be greatly
appreciated! If you have a better suggestion for a forum
to pose this question to, let me know!
Travis
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