Somebody please help me its urgent! My laptop is driving me mad!?

Question

During these 5 months my laptop was running fine and in the 6th month I began to encounter freezing problems when I was playing games. I ran a regcleaner deleted every unwanted registries but then the problem still persists and its the 3rd time im encountering this right now. Im really stressed out figuring whats wrong with my laptop! So I really really need someone to help me now I am very desperate!

The laptop I am using is Lenovo B450 Running on Windows 7/Windows XP loaded together.

Answer 1

First I would recommend you try to find clues about the crash in the Windows event logger: http://kb.iu.edu/data/aivi.html



If you are not lucky there then the following reasons could cause the freezes :



- a virus : check your PC with a complete anti-virus scan and make sure you are clean.



- your hard disk is almost full : if your hard disk is over about 80% full and you are running several programs at once then it might be that your disk has trouble coping.

Try to delete some unused programs or transfer videos/music to your external hard disk.



- hardware issue : in that case I suggest you run a Linux live CD to test if this is a hardware issue or not. Don't be afraid this is very straightforward to check even if you have never touched Linux before. You only need to know how to burn a CD and boot from it.

You will be asked if you want to try Ubuntu at the start. Choose yes and Ubuntu should be up an running shortly. If you encounter no freeze then the issue is due to your Windows installation.

Steps:

1. get the ISO file from Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

2. burn the ISO on a CD (http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm)

3. boot from your CD (http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/bootcddvd.htm)





cheers.

Answer 2

You mention that you have Win 7 & Win XP loaded on your system. I would imagine that you have this setup as a dual boot (You are given a choice at startup to boot your laptop into either Win 7 or XP). I have to ask that as you say " During these 5 months my laptop was running fine and in the 6th month" or is it a laptop that was running XP and you upgraded to Win 7? At the bottom of your question you say loaded together (I am hoping that it is a dual boot configuration). I have never had much luck in systems that were upgraded especially systems that are old enough to have XP as your main operating system.

I guess my 1st solution would be to do a system restore from within windows. Pick a date prior to your problem and restore your system that earlier time. You do not mention if you are playing a Net based game or a game that is installed on your system? You also do not mention what type of system protection you are using (Avast,AVG,Norton,McAfee,etc). Or if you are playing a net based game, what browser (IE8/ Firefox/ Google Chrome) are you using. As per Lenovo's and the M$ website there doesn't seem to be an XP to Win 7 upgrade. So I would imagine you have a dual boot setup. If so what OS is causing you grief? Please give us some more information. Also User Rosch has some very good info.

Answer 3

First delete the cookies and history this will help second find what you have running at start up the more you have running the more cpu gets used and will cause freezing I see that you are a gamer so you probably have a fey on your computer and they start looking for an internet connection looking for updates most of them can be turned off this will save cpu usage and freezing should stop

I found that the free version of advanced system care is really useful in keeping my systems up and running I too am a gamer.

Answer 4

Sounds like a overheating problem. Computers should be cleaned from dust with a vacuum with plastic nozzle (no metals in the computer) or blown with compressed air periodically. I do it every 2 months to keep the level of dust in the processor minimum.



Your CPU is probably blocked with dust so much its overheating, and that will either freeze the computer or make it reboot constantly.

Answer 5

Try sending your laptop to an electronic shop, they might solve the problem by cleaning it or they might install things that could protect it.

Answer 6

Maybe your CPU is overheating. Are you monitoring temps?