I am having hangs at both startup and shutdown and during use. They are incredibly strange and I have yet to track them down in 1 year of use, through 1 reformat of windows onto an SSD.
Windows will sometimes hang on startup. The windows logo will go through its animation. It will hang there for a long time. Then at a black screen with a cursor for quite awhile. Then finally, if I get to the desktop, I will hang there w/o much loading of any programs. What is particularly interesting is that the network icon will have the blue circle in it during this time, yet usually I can open chrome and browse. However trying to get at Windows utilities such as even viewer or device manager will hang these windows.
Sometimes windows will not shutdown. Sometimes it will hang on logging off for a long time if not indefinately. This is the majority of the case when it does happen. Sometimes it will hang on the shutdown down part.
Also, sometimes, windows will hang during use. Now the hang is characterized by the following. New programs cannot establish network connections if they require it. For example, an MMO won't be able to log into the server. New programs fail to start up or shutdown. Great example is itunes will not start up, or defraggler will hang in the process list and be unable to end process. Finally My computer will hang indefinitely, doing the green progress bar on the top of the window for a long long long time. Of importance is that shutting down from this state will yield the shutdown hang as described previously. I left my computer at My Computer with the long green progress bar for the majority of the day yesterday, and when I came back the hang still persisted.
I don't know what is causing this. It has persisted through a Windows 7 reinstall onto an SSD. I have removed all USB devices and it remains. I have disabled both ATA Dvd drives in device manager. I've updated my sound and network drivers from ASUS's website. GPU drivers seem to not have any effect. I am using MSI Afterburner.
Any ideas to try would be great. I'm thinking its either some piece of faulty hardware or a piece of software I tend to always install on my system. I don't think its malware, as I've scanned and scanned with many tools and even reformatted and it turned up again shortly thereafter.
I can't find a process that is necessarily hanging the system. During the strange My Computer in use hangs, no processes are shown as not responding. Other thoughts include something on the network hanging my computer or the bonjour service.
If I could find a utility that would allow me to find the source of the in use hangs I could go after it, but as of yet, I can't find that source as nothing in task manager seems to be at fault. Unplugging network and sound and USB during a hang doesn't alleviate it.
Programs I religiously install:
7zip
Steam
MSI Afterburner
VirtualBox
iTunes
Dropbox
System.
i5-750 OC 4.2Ghz
Asus P7P55D Deluxe
Crossfire 6950 @ 6970 speed/shaders
8gB ram
Win7 x64.
Windows will sometimes hang on startup. The windows logo will go through its animation. It will hang there for a long time. Then at a black screen with a cursor for quite awhile. Then finally, if I get to the desktop, I will hang there w/o much loading of any programs. What is particularly interesting is that the network icon will have the blue circle in it during this time, yet usually I can open chrome and browse. However trying to get at Windows utilities such as even viewer or device manager will hang these windows.
Sometimes windows will not shutdown. Sometimes it will hang on logging off for a long time if not indefinately. This is the majority of the case when it does happen. Sometimes it will hang on the shutdown down part.
Also, sometimes, windows will hang during use. Now the hang is characterized by the following. New programs cannot establish network connections if they require it. For example, an MMO won't be able to log into the server. New programs fail to start up or shutdown. Great example is itunes will not start up, or defraggler will hang in the process list and be unable to end process. Finally My computer will hang indefinitely, doing the green progress bar on the top of the window for a long long long time. Of importance is that shutting down from this state will yield the shutdown hang as described previously. I left my computer at My Computer with the long green progress bar for the majority of the day yesterday, and when I came back the hang still persisted.
I don't know what is causing this. It has persisted through a Windows 7 reinstall onto an SSD. I have removed all USB devices and it remains. I have disabled both ATA Dvd drives in device manager. I've updated my sound and network drivers from ASUS's website. GPU drivers seem to not have any effect. I am using MSI Afterburner.
Any ideas to try would be great. I'm thinking its either some piece of faulty hardware or a piece of software I tend to always install on my system. I don't think its malware, as I've scanned and scanned with many tools and even reformatted and it turned up again shortly thereafter.
I can't find a process that is necessarily hanging the system. During the strange My Computer in use hangs, no processes are shown as not responding. Other thoughts include something on the network hanging my computer or the bonjour service.
If I could find a utility that would allow me to find the source of the in use hangs I could go after it, but as of yet, I can't find that source as nothing in task manager seems to be at fault. Unplugging network and sound and USB during a hang doesn't alleviate it.
Programs I religiously install:
7zip
Steam
MSI Afterburner
VirtualBox
iTunes
Dropbox
System.
i5-750 OC 4.2Ghz
Asus P7P55D Deluxe
Crossfire 6950 @ 6970 speed/shaders
8gB ram
Win7 x64.
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