Hello
Intermittent problem. System freeze, unable to access any open applications No keyboard, nor mouse. Need to use the reset button to restart. Had the problem twice today, and about three time last week.
What do I look for in the event log
Any tool to diagnose?
Martin
Open Event Log, look for two things: First any messages about your Hard Drives. Next, any messages about Power or Sleep modes.
If you can, run a Hard Driver tester, there are bunches on Hiren's Boot CD, google for a download link then boot to that, go to DOS programs and there are Hard Drive programs. GWscan works with a lot of different drives. If not, use the tool for your brand, which is usually a variation on the same app, and most HDD brand tools are in the same area.
Check for Read Element Failure, this has been my #1 cause of freezes. If you get that message it's an easy fix, run the full scan on the drive, and it will lock out bad sectors. Then keep your eye on it and see if new messages about the HDD show up in Event log.
Also, check for Blue Screen messages in the event log, there should be a numbered error, if you see those, especially more than one number, search both of them. Last week, I had a specific Blue Screen error, and by the two numbers it gave, I tracked it down to a crappy Display Driver update.
Check both Applications and System event logs, If you see error messages re: power, standby, hibernation, anyth8ing related to that, try changing your power settings. Are you telling your system to sleep/hibernate after a certain amount of time? Try changing the time, or turning that off.
1. Backup your PC
2. Run chkdsk on your system drive
3. Run sfc /scannow from an admin command prompt
4. Update all drivers from within Device Manager
hello
Thanks for the reply
System just did the same problem.
No error found on my SSD
No blue screen message in the event viewer
I suspect one of my graphic card. My system has two and the monitors hooked to of of them went with no image and a white back color. The others was displaying their original image. I had no control on the mouse nor the keyboard and again the only alternative was to use the reset button.
I'm doing the Nvdia update, but i don't think that this is a software problem.
I will look for more test before going out to by a new card
Martin
Its could be a GPU driver problem. Ensure you remove the current NVidia drivers from Add/Remove programs before adding the new one. Also, check you are using a WHQL driver. I have an AMD GPU and they have a habit of publishing non-WHQL drivers. Also check the connections from your motherboard to all peripherals, including the 1 or 2 power cables to the GPU since this can cause problems if the GPU can't draw enough current.
Might want to try rolling back any updates for the card that's malfucntioning. If you can't get into Windows to do it from Device Manager. boot to a Windows 10 installer and run System Restore, see if you have any restore points from before you last updated the graphics drivers. Windows 10 is notorious for bad graphics driver updates, two of which bricked my system. And never, ever, apply any graphic driver updates from WUpdate. Search the Tutorials for ways to exclude those from regular updates.
Also, if you have an SSD hard drive, there may be tools from the manufacturer that can check it for errors, you won't get the same kind of errors an HDD will, and you can't even defrag the drive. Raxco makes a tool that recovers free space and that has worked for the systems I've worked on that had SSDs. But the mfgr should have utilities that can check it for errors that regular tools can't find.
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