It's always plugged in. The battery on this thing has been shot for years.
Now, the thing is just turning me into a liar out of spite. It's been up and running for six hours now, the last 2 of which the CPU has been under full load. It hasn't stayed up for that long in a week. Could keeping the CPU under load be helping? What issue would that indicate?
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
Well, is it possible it is sleeping due to Power Management settings?
Nope. That's all turned off. It's the first thing I did when I got Windows reinstalled.
When it freezes, it does it old-school too. The screen continues to display, but becomes non-interactive. Sometimes I don't even notice that it's frozen until I look over and realize that nothing has updated in a while (I use it mostly to keep track of various chat rooms, and I don't directly interact with it constantly (which is also why I turn off power management stuff right away)), and I look to the corner and see that the clock is an hour behind, and not moving. Then I curse and reset it.
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
Um, I would try a Power MAnagement driver from HP, latest for your Windows version, and then reset (if needed) all settings after updating. Shot in dark, but has helped hangs in past for me....
@CB it's a total longshot, but my system was doing that too and disabling hardware acceleration in firefox seems to have stopped it. I think, maybe. Hard to tell.
(assuming you use firefox and it is open when you lockup)
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Now, the thing is just turning me into a liar out of spite. It's been up and running for six hours now, the last 2 of which the CPU has been under full load. It hasn't stayed up for that long in a week. Could keeping the CPU under load be helping? What issue would that indicate?
When it freezes, it does it old-school too. The screen continues to display, but becomes non-interactive. Sometimes I don't even notice that it's frozen until I look over and realize that nothing has updated in a while (I use it mostly to keep track of various chat rooms, and I don't directly interact with it constantly (which is also why I turn off power management stuff right away)), and I look to the corner and see that the clock is an hour behind, and not moving. Then I curse and reset it.
(assuming you use firefox and it is open when you lockup)