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Title: Freezing laptop
Post by: Arcticfire on October 19, 2011, 11:58:44 AM
well the title says it all really,

Since yesterday my laptop sometimes just freezes for a few seconds and then continues are normal.
Some other things are that my dvd player just opens by itself, and that sometimes me laptop really jams for a second, you really notice it when your sound is on and got something playing...you get that repeating thingie(if that makes sence).

It would be a HP Pavilion Dv7.

Let me know if some more info would be nice :)

thx in advance,

Arctic
Title: Freezing laptop
Post by: kregoron on October 19, 2011, 01:01:16 PM
heat problems maybe, try checking with speedfan

you say dvd player, is it the physical drive thats opens or the dvd player software that starts?
Title: Freezing laptop
Post by: Arcticfire on October 19, 2011, 01:25:39 PM
na its the actual dvd player that opens, sometimes it happens alot, sometimes it doesnt happen...like now ofcourse :P

Ninja edit: heat is, HD0 38C. Temp1, Core0 and Core1 are 55-70C.
Title: Freezing laptop
Post by: T-Bag on October 19, 2011, 02:06:23 PM
Disable the DVD drive in device manager and see if the same thing happens (I never use my DVD drive so I can't picture it being too bad not using it for a day or too - but obviously if you have a disk check on games this might be a problem.). If it stops then it's the DVD drive, and if it doesn't then it's just a side-effect (or unrelated) to the actual cause.
Title: Freezing laptop
Post by: kregoron on October 19, 2011, 05:18:42 PM
Quote from: Arcticfire;335144na its the actual dvd player that opens, sometimes it happens alot, sometimes it doesnt happen...like now ofcourse :P

Ninja edit: heat is, HD0 38C. Temp1, Core0 and Core1 are 55-70C.

55-70 while doing nothing? we have had a few Dv7 @ work, and they often fail due to a defect fan,,, might have happened to yours too
Title: Freezing laptop
Post by: Arcticfire on October 21, 2011, 11:47:45 AM
ugh nice, anyway to find that out?