My laptop of almost 4 years running Windows 7 recently started having freezing/shutdown problems. In the beginning, everything worked for about 10 minutes before freezing. Once it froze, upon hitting ctrl+alt+delete I would get the message: "Failure to display security and shutdown options" on a black screen.
I did a system restore, thinking an update had gone wrong, but that didn't help. Virus scan looks clean, and I've really never had problems before. I did another system restore to a further date as well as the netsh winsock reset (a suggested fix on another thread) and I now have about 30 minutes of functionality before the freezing happens and I inevitably have to hold down the power button and start the process all over. Currently, while my laptop is running I'm able to pull up task manager; once it starts to freeze, I get the same failure to display error.
I'm happy to have 30 working minutes over 10, but does anyone have ideas on how to make the freezing stop??
I did a system restore, thinking an update had gone wrong, but that didn't help. Virus scan looks clean, and I've really never had problems before. I did another system restore to a further date as well as the netsh winsock reset (a suggested fix on another thread) and I now have about 30 minutes of functionality before the freezing happens and I inevitably have to hold down the power button and start the process all over. Currently, while my laptop is running I'm able to pull up task manager; once it starts to freeze, I get the same failure to display error.
I'm happy to have 30 working minutes over 10, but does anyone have ideas on how to make the freezing stop??