Nvm, got it thawed thanks to a faronics tech support agent. Got the faronics service started manually and thawed it then to make the necessary changes
@ Anomalina? Did you update Windows or your graphics drivers recently? I had a similar issue a while back and the problem was that I updated windows and then didn't update my graphics drivers. They had some sort of compatibility issue as a result which caused me to crash.
If you've updated windows check that your other drivers are all up to date as well. If you only updated a graphics driver, then try reverting the upgrade.
That's a tough one. If its the entire laptop that's crashing its probably not a driver compatibility issue. It could be that the hardware is just getting old as you say. What are you doing when it crashes? Is it only in Dota or while doing other things as well?
The slowdown could be a number of things. You might have accidentally switched the laptop to low performance or power saver mode. Or it could just be software that you've installed or that has installed itself over time that's running in the background.
Also how old is this laptop?
If its crashing out of the game then its probably not driver related. Sounds like faulty hardware. What make is your laptop? With the problems you've had sounds like they didn't put it together very well.
It could also be a corrupted windows system file. If the computer guy can't find a fault you could try reinstalling windows.
I don't know anyone who has a Lenovo laptop actually. As far as I know it doesn't have a bad name but it doesn't stand out as a brand either.
Yeah downloading at that speed is a pain. I have a similar line speed and I generally leave things downloading overnight when I need to get something big.
Hope your laptop gets sorted out.
is this a tech support thread? i have a problem too
my computer likes to freeze all of sudden. not bsod, not black screen. just stops reacting completely, sometimes i get that kind of a looping sound if im hearing something at the moment so the sounds gets "stuck too", num lock caps etc stops reacting and i can only hard restart
how do i figure out what is wrong? i tried to check windows log but it doesnt show anything around the time of freezes
'plus recently replace the hard disk a couple of times and the upper and lower panels'
Dude that really sucks, hope you get it fixed. Although I'm on a desktop now, my 2012 Asus laptop still works fine minus the time I had to replace the corrupted hard disks (into an SSD, really does wonders) and battery to fix all on board issues. That was about 3 years ago and it still works like a charm today although the specs are a bit too outdated for modern day gaming.
@Arin what are you doing when it freezes? If it happens during games only the first thing I recommend is updating your graphics drivers because that can cause freezes like that.
@Arin what are you doing when it freezes? If it happens during games only the first thing I recommend is updating your graphics drivers because that can cause freezes like that.
i update my graphics drivers regularly
yea it just crashes during games
overheating shouldnt be the reason either, theres no way my pc can overheat just during dota, not even gpu fans are on. just to be sure i opened the pc case but it still didnt do anything
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Ok, this is a really weird way how my computer turned out to the way it is now. Hear me out.
My computer has deep freeze installed. both disks on my computer have it. Just earlier I set it to "thaw" in just 1 restart so I could run Mbam in safemode. Since the f8 option to get into safe mode doesnt work on this computer, i opted for msconfig. Its been a while since I got into safemode this way so I just basicallybreezed through the options, and what I did was I ticked "diagnostic startup", which only loads basic services instead of going to "boot" and choosing "safe boot".
Since the first restart I realized I didnt get into safemode, I scanned thrpugh msconfig and corrected my process. But at this point the computer is thawed, and at the same time the deep freeze service is also disabled so I could not open the options to disable deepfreeze.
So i restarted again in safe mode, but it seems the computer is now stuck in "freeze", and at the same time all the windows services are stuck to "stop". I could not open up deep freeze options, and even if i enable the services in msconfig I still get disabled services in my next reboots because the computer is now frozen in that state..
So, how do I get myself in this situation out?