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07-16-2004, 01:03 AM
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Windows update freezing when scrolling
I have been trying for 20 hours straight to get windows to stop freezing on me. It has never done this before. Most of the time, its freezing on the windows update site when i scroll down with either the wheel or the sidebar. it sometimes freezes when im trying to start a program or close one. I cant ctrl-alt-del or anything at all. I have to reboot. I have done plenty of clean installs of winxp pro and still cant get it to stop freezing on the windows update site. I have all the latest drivers for all my hardware installed. What am i missing? Thanks.
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07-16-2004, 07:02 AM
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What are your system specs, and what O/S are you running?
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07-16-2004, 08:33 AM
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System specs are
ASUS TUSL2-C 512MB Crucial 133mhz sdram 40GB WD 7200rpm HD Lite-on LTD163D dvd-rom Lite-on LTR 40125W CDRW Radeon 8500 64MB Audigy MP3 sound card 1.3Ghz Celeron WinXP Pro sp1a I got it not to freeze by highlighting the updates and scrolling that way by holding down the mouse button and moving the mouse down. It still freezes when i scroll the normal way. |
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07-16-2004, 09:45 AM
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Do you have a lot of programs running in the background?
You might want to check for spyware with spybot/adaware to make sure that isn't taking up system resources. Another possibility is that you only have generic drivers installed, and not ATI's catalyst drivers, or that the refresh rate of the monitor is lower than 75Hz |
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07-16-2004, 12:44 PM
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No spyware, have the 4.7 drivers from ATI installed and the monitor is at 75hz. I only have 20 processes running and never more than 5 programs running at a time. Its usually my AV, Firewall, Outlook and my instant messenger.
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07-16-2004, 12:47 PM
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I would've thought the firewall would be doing something to cause it. Other than that, nothing else springs to mind....definitly could be spyware hogging resources as Force Flow said.
EDIT: No spyware. Ok, scratch my last sentence then 
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07-18-2004, 01:48 PM
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Well now the pc is freezing when i'm looking at pdf files with adobe reader 6.0. Do i need to reinstall windows again. i tried it a couple times and still got windows update to freeze up. Do i have a bad xp disc?
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07-20-2004, 10:43 PM
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Well it froze again. I was reading a web page not even touching the mouse or keyboard when i got a port scan. The sygate pro firewall popped up with the warning and then the pc froze. It's not heat related cause the temps for my celeron 1.3ghz is no higher than 37 degrees on full load. Anyone have any clues as to what is causing this?
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