- Feb 19, 2003
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Hi guys hope someone can help me with this. I have a laptop from late 2007. What's been happening is that lately when I'm gaming (SC2/LOL) the game will hang for about 1-2 minutes. During this time my screen will hang and the last music or sound effect will loop for the duration. I also have some lag / delay after a fresh reboot on the desktop lately when I am switching between firefox and chrome which leads me to believe that it's not an overheating or gaming problem. One odd thing is that there was one day I was encountering this problem while gaming while on Ventrilo and that was working fine (i could talk and hear them just fine).
Things I've Tried or Observed:
I thought that it was a probable overheating issue so I got a cooling pad....alt tabbing during game indicated temperatures at about 80 degrees for gpu and the 2 cpu cores which seems to be in the acceptable range.
The second thing I found out was that I only had 1 gig of hdd space left and it might have been a problem with the page file. After clearing up 12 gigs of space the problem persists.
Most of the system was replaced in June 2010 (Mobo/CPU/GPU) and based on the symptoms I'm seeing I suspect that it is a dying HDD or RAM.
I'd like some input from you guys. Thanks in advance.
Update: Just ran Prime 95 (Blend-Lots of RAM) for 20 min with 0 errors.
Update: MS Security Essentials Check
Seagate Seatools: Pass (SMART/Short DST/Long DST/ Short Generic/ Long Generic)
Malware Bytes: Pass
Chkdsk: Pass
Smart Reporter: Pass
I just had a similiar hang in desktop here is event viewer message:
Windows (2608) Windows: A request to write to the file "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb" at offset 6225920 (0x00000000005f0000) for 8192 (0x00002000) bytes succeeded, but took an abnormally long time (61 seconds) to be serviced by the OS. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.
Things I've Tried or Observed:
I thought that it was a probable overheating issue so I got a cooling pad....alt tabbing during game indicated temperatures at about 80 degrees for gpu and the 2 cpu cores which seems to be in the acceptable range.
The second thing I found out was that I only had 1 gig of hdd space left and it might have been a problem with the page file. After clearing up 12 gigs of space the problem persists.
Most of the system was replaced in June 2010 (Mobo/CPU/GPU) and based on the symptoms I'm seeing I suspect that it is a dying HDD or RAM.
I'd like some input from you guys. Thanks in advance.
Update: Just ran Prime 95 (Blend-Lots of RAM) for 20 min with 0 errors.
Update: MS Security Essentials Check
Seagate Seatools: Pass (SMART/Short DST/Long DST/ Short Generic/ Long Generic)
Malware Bytes: Pass
Chkdsk: Pass
Smart Reporter: Pass
I just had a similiar hang in desktop here is event viewer message:
Windows (2608) Windows: A request to write to the file "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb" at offset 6225920 (0x00000000005f0000) for 8192 (0x00002000) bytes succeeded, but took an abnormally long time (61 seconds) to be serviced by the OS. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.
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