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Random freezes on Sony Vaio laptop

legokill101

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Apr 10, 2013
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My brand new (>3 weeks old) Sony Vaio laptop is freezing randomly on average at least once a day. I have run a virus scan and found nothing and the only thing odd i have noticed is one right before it froze i saw disk activity was at 100 percent, also the strange part is sometimes i can move my cursor but nothing will respond nor will the keyboard shortcuts thanks
 
Hi :)

Run a hard drive test in DOS... HIRENS BOOT CD etc, it sounds like a failing hard drive... do NOT do this if you have an SSD...

All the best Brett :)
 



um acutaly its still ersitign and could you help me i cant seem to find one that works for windows 8
 



um acutaly its still ersitign and could you help me i cant seem to find one that works for windows 8
 


Hi :)

Operating system does NOT matter.... as you download Hirens then write it to disc and BOOT from the disc....BEFORE windows...

All the best Brett :)
 


meh i have a extended warinty since i use a it a ton for school, so i will just take it into microcenter, its vactions week next week so might as well since if it is a problem they will just fix it