Freezing Nightmare.
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Hi I currently bought a HP dv6000 from my uncle. Everything is working great but It seems most of the time when the computer is installing things or when there should be some sort of loading it stalls as in nothing at all works except the mouse movement. This stalling can last to about 30scs-2minutes and nothing at all works during this time. So lets say its currently in a stall and I click on firefox and media player. Neither of them will open until the stalling is complete. During the stalling the loading light is not on at all. As soon as the stalling completes then it starts loading like crazy. It seems as though it forgets what it is doing and then remembers a minute or 2 later what it is suppose to bbe doing. This issue occurs more generally on windows and not while playing games. There has been a few occasions when the mouse itself will not even move, but it will still unstall after awhile. I currently have windows 7 installed and the windows 7 advisor says I can run windows 7 with no problems. All of the drivers are up to date, I also have every available windows 7 update. This is also a new Hard drive and a new fresh install. The old hard drive somehow broke while using the recovery CD. This stalling happens so often while doing things that my old Pentium 3 can do in seconds is making me want to smash me head through this laptop. My own little theory is that this laptop does not know how to communicate with hard drives properly and the stalling is unhealthy for the hard drive and in the long run breaking the hard drive. That is just my theory though What can be done?

if you need my computer specs please follow this link and scroll to the bottom http://www.xfire.com/profile/1bp13/ It also did stall while just opening a new tab and typing in that address.
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#2

It may be overloaded, try closing any unused programs and processes? Also, what are your power settings? Having a setting of "balanced" or "power-saver" will lower performance to save energy.
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Originally Posted by llama
It may be overloaded, try closing any unused programs and processes? Also, what are your power settings? Having a setting of "balanced" or "power-saver" will lower performance to save energy.
Windows 7 does not offer a high performance mode. Like I said I am only doing things like internet and installing things. My pentium 3 can do all these things without stalling at all so it is not a issue of too many programs opened. I can even only have 1 thing installing and it will stall a total of about 10 times during the install so it takes twice as long.
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#4

Odd, my Windows 7 offers the high performance setting. Try looking for a "show hidden options" button. It may not be open programs, but processes. You can find them in the task manager. You say this is a new hard drive? Can you state the specifications on it and not just the size? Lastly, you may want to think about upgrading that 1GB of RAM to 2GB, even if it's the minimum requirements, it may still be slow.
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#5

I myself have an Acer Aspire 5020. I wanted to install Windows 7 a while ago and it did install. Thing is that it was really slow. My laptop has 1024 mb ram and a 2.0 ghz processor. You may want to consider installing xp or upgrading since that computer isn't that fast and it is lack of performance that kills your pc.
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#6

my hard drive is a ST912041 1ASG SCSI. Also this freezing was alot present on Windows Vista home preminum which was the pre-installed OS. I had computers from the year 2000 with vista installed and It never locked up for 1-2 minutes and had this only the mouse can move issue.
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#7

I'm still thinking that it's the amount of RAM available.
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I'm still thinking that it's the amount of RAM available.
my 512mb ram 1.8ghz computer doesnt have problems.
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I'm still thinking that it's the amount of RAM available.
nah, i have an Compaq Presario CQ-50 103NR (( HP And Compaq Are The Same Company )) With The Following Specs:


Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard/Compaq
Model: Presario CQ50-103NR
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor QL-60 (2 CPUs), ~1.90GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Hard Drive: 150 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
Monitor: HP Flat Screen HD
Sound Card: Altec Lansing Speakers (Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221)
Speakers/Headphones: Integrated
Keyboard:Integrated
Mouse: Touchpad
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Case: Silver and Black


And none of this happens....
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#10

Which version of Windows 7 do you have and is the fully legit? You may want to run a virus-scanner and other computer performance programs. (I can recommend CCleaner.) Or you may want to try to run some of the programs including in Windows such as Disk Cleanup, Disk Defragmenter, and Disk Check.
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