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    hangs/freezes?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by andy1992, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. andy1992

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    ok lets start my story.

    when i first bought my laptop (more than 1 year ago) it had this problem where by it would not, sometimes, turn on. you would press the on button and nothing. you had to physicaly take the battery out and put it back in again, then it would turn on.

    i complained to my manufacturer and they released a bios upgrade wich fixed that problem.

    new problems:

    sometimes when i turn it on, while the tray icons are loading the laptop freezes and i have to hold down the off button to turn it off. the frequency varies but today it hapened three times in a row and pissed me off.

    the other problem is hangs. sometimes it hangs during anything, the sound will loop and a couple of secounds later it will unhang. during iternet surfing it looses internet connection. (anoying!) the worst of it is during games and films. (helo=hehehehehehehehehehehhehehhehhehelo). again the hanging varies, sometimes doesnt do it and sometimes very frequent.

    im pretty sure this is a BIOS problem, i complained to the manufacture(2years warranty left) and they told me to call them. i explained exactly what my problem was so why call them?, they couldve just sent me an email.



    This warning is very frequent in the event log manager:

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    Event Type: Warning
    Event Source: ACPIEC
    Event Category: None
    Event ID: 3
    Date: 18/07/2008
    Time: 21:15:11
    User: N/A
    Computer: ANDY
    Description:
    \Device\ACPIEC: The embedded controller (EC) hardware returned data when none was requested. This may indicate that the BIOS is incorectly trying to access the EC without syncronizing with the OS. The data is being ignored.

    For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
    Data:
    0000: 00 00 68 00 01 00 be 00 ..h...¾.
    0008: 00 00 00 00 03 00 05 80 .......€
    0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
    0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
    0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
    0028: 99 9e 36 00 20 00 0d 00 ™ž6. ...
    0030: 10 01 ab 00 60 00 09 00 ..«.`...
    0038: 90 01 ff ff 70 00 09 00 .ÿÿp...
    0040: 10 00 13 00 80 00 0c 00 ....€...
    0048: 10 00 9f 00 60 00 07 00 ..Ÿ.`...
    0050: 50 00 a0 02 70 00 12 00 P. .p...
    0058: 10 00 13 00 80 00 0d 00 ....€...
    0060: 15 00 11 00 21 bb 0d 00 ....!»..
    0068: 11 01 9e 00 61 00 08 00 ..ž.a...
    0070: 51 00 74 02 71 00 07 00 Q.t.q...
    0078: 11 02 14 00 81 00 85 01 .....….
    0080: a1 09 66 05 11 02 21 00 ¡.f...!.
    0088: 41 4a 08 00 16 08 e7 00 AJ....ç.

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    Any ideas guys?
     
    andy1992, Jul 19, 2008
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