Recent content by Chitaranjan Thoudam

I tried removing few software but didn't help, so done factory reset yesterday. I have been watching couple of movies after that and so far no freeze. I am going to keep an eye on any installations or updates, may be one by one and test, it will be tedious but I think this may be the way I can...

For the RAM, I have purchased the two new sticks (4GB each) and replaced the old ones (2GB each). I have Kasperky antivirus, I will try re-installing. One more think I noticed was "system interrupts" was on average of 4.3 when I have movie streaming is on but looks pretty low as 0.8 when I...

I ran prime95 again giving more on FFT, during this process CPU was always at 100% but did not freeze, this make me my head scratch, please advice.

I have replaced the HDD but sadly issue continues. I just checked the CPU usage immediately after freeze stops and I saw at 100% and physical memory at about 40%. Any idea I should do next?

I agree, I am experiencing this from past one year and 5 yrs life for HDD is long enough I guess. I have already taken complete backup and kept it from some time. Just to add, freeze normally don't occur when I browse or using office or Photoshop, very rarely happens. But watching movie from...

My HDD is toshiba, since I could not find the toshiba diagnostic tool I tested with Seagate SeaTools. Short DST was passed and long was failed with 2 errors. It says "failed in important diagnostic test, possibly caused by problem sectors which are difficult to read". I couldn't get the log...

I have read many similar threads in this forum and done some steps already but I still have this issue, so wanted to explore more options. My laptop is Sony Vaio VPCCW17FX model, you can see the configuration details in this link. It is about 4 years old, I have tried the below, Upgrading RAM...