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• HP 15 laptop computer omen: Question of graphics - freeze/lock

  I have problems with my graphics I think. I don't know if this is a hardware or a software issue, however.

  Symptom: When I start a game the computer crashes and there's a hum. The sound almost sounds like it comes from the material rather than the sound. Although this doesn't happen every time. CTRL-ALT-DEL does not work when this happens. By pushing the button window does not work. The only way to get out the gel is hard boot the PC. This happened there as well after a game about 3 weeks session. I restored the computer to factory default and it worked fine until the 10/30/15. I would say the 1st time it happened was on 01/10/15. So a month elapsed before this happens again. Both times it happened after a long gaming session. I closed my laptop, went to another House and then when I tried to play again that this freezing/hum which is spent. This time I was unable to solve the problem.

  I play the games or you have tried: Hearthstone, WOW, heroes of the storm, Starcraft II and Diablo III, Skyrim. All seem to have this problem now.

  Things I've done.

  Restored PC to factory default. (Windows updates, installed updates HP installed, updated graphics card)

  Uninstalled and reinstalled graphics card

  Restore PC to factory default (Windows updates installed, graphics card updates) - I remember when I first bought the PC. I installed HP updates through HP support Manager. It messed up the graphics. I have restored and it has worked well up until the 10/01/15. So I thought that maybe I messed up it by doing this. What is interesting is now after I restored my PC for the third time. HP can't find no updates. Maybe they stayed settled now?

  Graphics card runs at 70 C (used Unigine & Unigine Valley) Ran this several times with no problem. This blows my mind. Why would this work but not games.

  Peformance HP advisor no longer works. I uninstalled it and re-installed. Seems to be the slightest error out when he's looking for the graphics card.

  To be honest. It seems to deteriorate, and even worse plus I have restore and try the different troubleshooting steps. Nothing is really make sense logically here. I have difficulty computers for a living but seriously this thing gives me a hell of a time.

  I'm kind similarly not sure what more can be done.

  It seems that the Nvidia GTX860M is having issues. When I right click and go to the Nvidia Control Panel. There is not much information at this location, as it used to be. The only option I have is 3D settings. It even after the Nations United-stable and re - install.

  Any thoughts on where I should go with this? This PC is still under warranty and I year 3 help plan. Thanks in advance. I'm happy to give you any additional information. This thing is just blow my mind! Thank you!

  After tons and tons of troubleshooting I finally thought to it. I was on the phone with HP when I thought about it. They kept transfer me back and forth between the Department of hardware and software. They have not really help a lot.

  Just in case anyone else has this same problem.

  Laptop HP Omen 15 - Windows 8.1

  Symptom: Chart question - freezing/locking up when you play ANY game and when you launch HP performance Advisor.

  Solution: Uninstall Nvidia Graphics Card and Nvidia Ge Force experience. Also everything that said Nvidia in your Add/Remove Programs Control Panel.

  Go to HP and download the Nvidia graphic card on there website to your PC. Do NOT install the driver of Nvidia graphics from the site Web of Nvidia card.

  NVIDIA is currently on 352 or something like that. I downloaded 348 or anything that was on the HP website. Everything works find now. NVIDIA has missed something there put the driver.

  Of NVIDIA Geforce experience will NOT work. What is the best so good solution? Playing games or using the Geforce experience.

  Hope this helps anyone who runs into this problem.

• My computer is locked after 10 minutes instead of sleep when not in service

  Original title: locked computer

  My computer is locked after 10 minutes instead of sleep when not in service

  Hello

   

  
  Could you please clarify the question?
  1 - is your computer hangs / freeze when you wake the computer from sleep mode or when the computer begins to sleep?
  2 or it is locked and it will prompt you to enter the password?

  3. what type of screen you get when the computer crashes?

  4. have you installed the latest display drivers?

   

   

  Hope to hear back rom you soon!

  Thank you, and in what concerns:
  Shekhar S - Microsoft technical support.

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• Select the boot device appears to casual throw & computer freeze certain functions

  HP Compaq Pavilion 64 bit, windows 7 Home premium

  6 months ago replace hard drive with the drive hard seagate 1 TB 64-bit

  Computer functions started random freezing of microsoft works, don't access the start menu, task bar functions, classifications, etc. all random works poorly but still able to use count in browsing the web. I look at you tube for long periods seems to stimulate the problem. Computer being left pending. Computer freezes seems to disappear spontaneously during use or after sleep or restart.

  Commissioning shows a blue square in the middle of the screen with:

  Select the boot device

  ST 1000 DM003-1 ER162

  HP DVD - Ram GH40L

  F4 amorçage using default

  What boot device use.

  Unplugged the hard drive and turned on pc and hp dvd - ram gh40l was only peripheral boot

  Replaced the motherboard battery already.

  I did the command line; sfc/scannow, HDD and motherboard diagnostics, repair of disks does not.

  One alternative is to reinstall windows 7 with discs or install windows 10 as an alternative.

  Hello @zoboomafoo,

  Thank you for all the information!

  What have been the results of physical tests?  If all the past, then it seems that you encounter problems with the operating system.  If the problem is actually related to the operating system, then by reinstalling Windows will help you solve it.  This should help to address issues with malware.  Upgrade to Windows 10 is an option, however, you don't have full support of drivers.  I hope this helps.

  Kind regards!

• computer freezes while using safari

  In recent times, at least once a day the computer freezes while using safari. All of a sudden, I'll realize the mouse won't scroll and I can't move a window. Force quit doesn't work, I have ripped off, unplug and then reverse the process. I used yesterday first aid in disk utility, but did not and bizarre messages. Any ideas what I should try next? FYI, I use actually OS 10.11.3.

  Please go to http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck , download and run EtreCheck, copy paste here the status report.  EtreCheck is a diagnostic tool used by many contributors here to help diagnose problems with the computers of the complainant.  Sometimes, it provides all necessary assistance, that sometimes we need more information beyond that.  However, it is always a good start.  EtreCheck has also been developed by an employee trust and respected here.

• Hp18All-OnePc: my computer freezes when it restarts

  Hello. My problem is that I installed 10 Windows to restart the computer freezes and the only solution I found is to unplug and re - connect. any help?

  Hello. My problem is that I installed Windows to restart the computer 10 crashes and the only Sulution I found is to unplug and Re-Conecct. Any help?

  @Niqo14,

  Hello and thanks for the display on the HP support forums.  So that I can help you with your problem of gel have you installed as an upgrade, or you created the stand alone dvd to perform a clean installation.

  If you did upgrade anything you want to do is run the stand-alone installation of windows 10.

  So, you can run the windows update first convenience store to see if this solves the problem.

  Here is a link to help you with that.

  Troubleshooting of windows update.

  Please report if you need any other assistance.  Thanks again for the post and have a great day.

• Satellite A200 - message "your computer is locked.

  First of all, I am a novice.

  Secondly, I have a message on my main screen after opening which reads "Your computer is locked" and I can't do anything with it. I have stopped with the help of the key, closed the lid, control Alt Delete, did all the usual things, but this screen remains! I am running Vista Home Premium. Any advice would be magical.
  Thanks in advance,
  JayneM

  Go into Windows and check the power settings in the Control Panel, it can be programmed to lock the screen or enter mode sleep when you close the lid.

  If there is a bad driver or software installed, it may cause problems with sleep mode.

• I get a silverlight popup every time I try to send an e-mail, then on computer freezes

  I get a silverlight popup every time I try to send an e-mail, then on computer freezes

  Uninstall and reinstall Silverlight.

• computer freezing in desktop mode, only works in safe mode

  computer freezes in desktop mode, it does not do anything. have been in safe mode of old stuff to clean desktop screen & also tried to uninstall anti-virus has frozen but towards the end.

  Hello

   
  You can check in performinig system restore in safe mode to a system restore point when the computer was working fine.
   
  The system restore.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/products/features/system-restore

• How can I stop my computer freezes up?

  Sometimes my computer freezes on me, turn it on on any site of spasific, it comes will freeze

  Hello

  • What were the changes made before the issue started?
  • You receive an error message?
  • What version of Windows operating system do you use?
  • This occurs on Internet Explorer?
  • Is - what the computer crashes only when internet access?
  You can check this link:
  Slow PC? Optimize your computer for peak performance
  http://www.Microsoft.com/athome/Setup/optimize.aspx

• Computer freezes completely during the game

  Hello

  I always noticed when you try to run a computer games that my computer going for a reason completely freeze. I noticed this happen on Age of Empires III and Dawn of War II and also it happened on World of Warcraft. This is exactly what is happening:

  When I start the game (Dawn of War II for example) - it will take care of apparently very well, but then when I start trying to do things (until I connect even on and all the campaign mode) computer freezing suddenly completely, even if I'm still able to move the mouse, I'm unable to click on anything whatsoever or even escape on my desk which leads me to the conclusion that maybe my computer entire freezes and not just the game it's self. Sometimes, however, the sound of music from the game freezes as suddenly and will loop the sound and then then the computer hangs while the game is running, however most often, the computer freezes and the sound at the same time. I'm honestly at a loss on how to solve this problem and I bought Dawn of War II, anxious to play, to do then. I am extremely frustrated.

  Here are some features of the computer:

  Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit)
  Service Pack 2
  AMD Athlon (TM) 8450 Triple-Core processor 2.10 GHz
  3G RAM
  Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 8200
  Chipset: GeForce 9200

  Any help would be greatly appreciated

  Hello Joshuarrr,

  Thanks for the reply.

  Ideally, updates do not cause the version of the driver to change on your computer. If the driver updates are change the version of your video card, then the problem could be related to NVidia and I suggest that you contact NVidia support in this regard. Here is a link I found his support page:

  https://store.nvidia.com/DRHM/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayContactFormPage&siteid=NVIDIA&locale=en_US&env=base

  I hope this information helps.

  Please get back to us if you have any questions on this subject.

  Thank you
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• Computer hard locks after the notation in the world of Warcraft character select screen

  My computer hard locks after installing the new patch for world of warcraft. I followed all the steps to address this problem with undesirable results. I have reinstalled the world of warcraft, patched successfully, but when connecting, I hard-lock and need to restart my computer. For this reason, I have to start in safe mode because my computer does not start normally after this anomaly. Since then, I tried to reinstall windows 7, but I can't the GUI to load.

  My hard drive has been compromised?

  I followed literally ALL the solutions that made me Blizzard technical support forums. How bout a solution to the problem that seems to be widespread?

  Hello

  ·        What are the steps that you took form of Blizzard Technical Support forums?

  Follow the steps mentioned below.

  Method 1:

  It may be that some third-party software is causing this problem. Perform a clean boot and see if the problem is resolved.

  If you can boot in safe mode, then I suggest you perform a clean boot.

  1. click on Start, type msconfig.exe in the Start Search box and press ENTER to start The System Configuration utility.

  2. on the general tab click Selective startup , and then click to clear the check box loadstartup items. (The check box use the file Boot is not available.)

  3. on the Services tab, click to select the hide all Microsoft services check box, and then click disable all

  Note: Following this step lets services Microsoft continue to run. These services include networking, Plug-and-Play, record of events, error reporting, and other services. If you disable these services, you can permanently delete all restore points. Do not do this if you want to use to restore the system with the existing restore points.

  When you are finished troubleshooting, follow these steps to reset the computer to start as usual:

  1. click on start, type msconfig.exe in the Start Search box and press ENTER.

  If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click on continue.

  2. on the general tab, click the Normal startup option, and then click OK.

  3. When you are prompted to restart the computer, click restart

  For more information, see the article mentioned below.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

  Contact the game manufacturer for further support.

  Thanks and regards.

  Thahaseena M
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer.
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• colored lines appear on the screen and the computer freezes with W7

  This happened several times since I got this computer in December.  Lines of color will appear in horizonally across the screen and the computer freezes.  After I have turn it off and start it again, there is no problem.  But is it a problem waiting for one big from appearing in the future?

  If this is a new computer, take it back where you got it because it will still be under warranty.
  Could be something from the graphic card, monitor etc. TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2010 - Update Services

• Computer freezes & closed by itself.

  Original title: what is the problem?

  I would like to know what was wrong with my computer. The computer freezes all the time and off what it self. I hope someone could help me, because I work at home as a data entry keyer and I really need the equipment works properly. Thank you

  Katia

  If the computer stops himself who suggested the failure of the system.

  You gave us a general indication of the nature of the problem but the specific error reports are a much easier solution.

  When a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) the system failure occurs, for most users, there not enough time to fully record what he says. the exact text is important for anyone trying to diagnose what is wrong. You can save time when the error occurs then by following the procedure described below.

  If you already did it disable the auto reboot system error. This should help by allowing the time to write the code to Stop error and related information correctly. Do right click on the icon my computer on the desktop and select Properties, advanced, startup and recovery, system failure and uncheck the box before automatically restarting. Re-do not enable automatic restart in the event of system failure after obtaining this information, this setting is the best left to not allow an automatic restart.

  If the failure occurs during the initialization of the computer, you need to try a different approach. You can access the Advanced Options Menu of Windows on multiple computers by constantly pressing the F8 (key) key when starting and selecting the option - disable automatic restart in case of system error. This method is not always easy to use because it may be difficult to press the F8 key at the right time. Try again if it doesn't work the first time. On some computers, a different key must be used.

  Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell

• Computer, freeze, and Microsoft Security Essentials scan stop on this file each time: c:\Program HP Imaging\bin\hpqthb08.exe

  My computer, one almost four years, Dell Inspiron 1454 with Windows XP Pro, continues to freeze when left to sit for a few minutes. Also, I discovered that when I run the Microsoft Security Essentials quick or full scan analyzing stops on the file HP Digital Imaging mentioned above several times.  I was wondering if this means something on the reason why the computer freezes up. Also, Windows Live Mail continually lets me know that it is "not responding." Yet once, I guess it's because of the freezing problem not Windows Live Mail is the cause. I do not know.  I made some different system using different dates restorations and who has not solved anything so far. I use the computer during a run without problem, but if I have a cup of coffee, for example, I have to restart when I return. Sometimes, the slider moves, sometimes not, but no matter the computer is unresponsive after that I took a break or just out of the blue when I try to open an e-mail or another task. I guess it's time for a Mac, but I thought I'd see if anyone has some ideas on how to solve this problem. Thank you!

  Hello, Olivia,.

  This problem is probably due to an outdated HP Digital Imaging monitor. Even if you decided to switch to a Mac, the question may still popup because you have installed hpqthb08.exe.

  Fortunately, there is an update that you can apply.

  SP26427. EXE

  http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=PV-26169-1&LC=en

  Or you can simply disable HP Digital Imaging Monitor.

  How to disable HP Digital Imaging monitor.

  http://www.ehow.com/how_5896835_disable-HP-digital-imaging-monitor.html

  Good luck.