Is anyone else having issues with 7 freezing for no reason at all??this occurred last week and and now it occurred two more times.At first i thought well may be it was because i was updating my anti virus (avast) which was about to expire, system froze in the middle of updating. i pressed the restart button on my computer and system booted up fine. about 3 minutes after booting up again, systemSTOPPED AGAIN, meaning my keyboard doesn't do anything and courser doesn't move at all. I try ctrl+alt+del and NOTHING. i had to press restart button again.I've been using 7 since before the beta became public and i haven't had many issues. windows updates in turned to automatically (if that helps?)i haven't installed any new programs lately, or at least i don't remember installing anything in the last week or two. and no new hardware. i'm also runningwindows 7 on a laptop but i've never had this issue.any else going through same issue????specs:Intel quad core Q6700 2.66 ghzIntel motherboard DG 33tl media series4gb patriot memorywindows 7 64bitxfx video card geforce 9600900gb hard drive (western digital)windows 7 only has 20 gbpartition, the rest is vista

xicanonaztlanca said: Is anyone else having issues with 7 freezing for no reason at all??this occurred last week and and now it occurred two more times.At first i thought well may be it was because i was updating my anti virus (avast) which was about to expire, system froze in the middle of updating. i pressed the restart button on my computer and system booted up fine. about 3 minutes after booting up again, systemSTOPPED AGAIN, meaning my keyboard doesn't do anything and courser doesn't move at all. I try ctrl+alt+del and NOTHING. i had to press restart button again.I've been using 7 since before the beta became public and i haven't had many issues. windows updates in turned to automatically (if that helps?)i haven't installed any new programs lately, or at least i don't remember installing anything in the last week or two. and no new hardware. i'm also runningwindows 7 on a laptop but i've never had this issue.any else going through same issue????specs:Intel quad core Q6700 2.66 ghzIntel motherboard DG 33tl media series4gb patriot memorywindows 7 64bitxfx video card geforce 9600900gb hard drive (western digital)windows 7 only has 20 gbpartition, the rest is vista ok it did it again literally 5 minutes after posting this thread. i stopped using windows 7 and switched over to vista to write this.when it did this, i was updating the drivers for my dvd drive. i checked device manager and it said drivers were not found. this is weird because before this the drivers were always fine. can it be that or something else? i don't think so because drivers were working fine a couple of days ago and it still froze

Check your memory using either the built-in Windows 7 Memory Diagnostics or the more thorough and visually communicative Memtest86. If your memory tests good, then double-check your drivers. Did you get new and updated drivers for your NVIDIA based card?

ok ill check that out, but if the memory was bad wouldn't vista freeze also??? when i use vista my system runs good it has never freezed. i'll still check it out though. their are some drivers that need updates, my dvd drive just recently started saying that it needs a new driver (under device manager). windows 7 automatically updated the pre-release drivers from nvidia but i'll check on their website and see if there are new drivers available.

Could just be beta hiccups, or could be Windows Vista drivers trying to cooperatewitn Windows 7.Check your Task Manager...Processes tab to see if anything's out of the ordinary there. Also check your Event Viewer for problems that occur around the time of the freezes (most likely in the System log file since most of this seems to revolve around drivers)- John