Re: Computer Freezes every 23 to 25 hours

From: Unknown (Unknown_at_Somewhere.Kom)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:10:43 GMT

Check for possible erroneous settings in scheduled tasks. 23-25 hours is too
much of a coincidence.
"Travis" <tpetershagen@msn.com> wrote in message
news:1206301c410ff$094b2100$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Greetings - I have an HP pavilion a340n that freezes
> every day (23 to 25 hours after booting up the computer-
> you can almost set your clock by it).
>
> (by freeze I mean the keyoard and mouse don't do a
> thing. the clock stays frozen in time from when it locks
> up, etc. Have to use the power button to reboot).
>
> It did not freeze in safe mode, however. Therefore, I
> figured something got hosed. I nuked the drives and did a
> clean install of WIndows XP Pro on the machine.
> Following the clean install, it no longer froze on me.
> However, as soon as I installed the updates from WIndows
> update, the freezing began again. I did a system restore
> and tried to install updates one at a time (to isolate)
> but I was unable to figure out which one caused the
> problem (it may be a combo of software and updates, or a
> couple updates in tandem, etc).
>
> The system freezes nearly eveyr 24 hours regardless of
> whether I'm on the computer using an application, if it's
> just sitting there, if the screen saver is on - it makes
> no difference. When the time comes, it freezes.
>
> Also, I've let it freeze with the task manager open and
> it shows no strange spike in any application or procees,
> nor does CPU utilization seem poor (2.6 gig pentium 4
> proccesor).
>
> The "Event Viewer" also shows no unusual activity.
>
> I considered that it might be a hardware problem, but why
> would it work in safe mode, or prior to my updates?
>
> It crashes nearly 24 hours after I boot it, regardless of
> when I boot it, so the crash is based on the amount of
> time the system has been running (not clock time or based
> on some scheduled proccess near as I can tell)
>
> Again, the computer will not stay up longer than 25 hours
> without freezing. And it will not freeze prior to being
> on for 23 hours. I can't help but think there is
> something to this timing - (ie- is that how long it takes
> for a buffer to overrun, a page file to get too large, a
> power supply to send some kind of spike? - just
> brainstorming)!
>
> This problem has been hosing me for a few months now, and
> I am stumped. It's quite a pain to have to reboot the
> machine every day! Any help would be greatly
> appreciated! If you have a better suggestion for a forum
> to pose this question to, let me know!
>
>
> Travis
>