Guys,
I've owned a Sager 8890 for, I guess, a couple years now. It's a 3.0 GHz with 1GB of RAM, and the gorgeous 16-inch screen. About a week and a half ago I started experiencing troubling, random lockups. The PC just freezes in place, without warning. I can see everything on the screen, but the keyboard is unresponsive, the mouse doesn't move. The only way out is to power off and power back up.
What's infuriating is that it all happens so fast that Windows has no clue. No dump logs, not a whisper of a hint in the Event Viewer modules. I'm watching this stuff like a hawk. I always run with MobMeter and my processor and drive temps are fine. I swept my system RAM with memtest86 and came up clean. I ran chkdsk and found nothing. I started working with TaskMan and Processor Explorer up so I could track process loads and memory usage, (remember, the screen stays up on freeze, so I can examine the output right at the moment of failure). But no trends there to indicates a runaway process freezing the system.
And yes, I've swept with multiple anti-virus, anti-spyware packages.
I'm flummoxed and am about to nuke the disk from orbit and reinstall. A thread here from SagerMeister seems to describe a very similar situation, but I'm not sure if he ever got it resolved.
http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...rd+lock+freeze
I'm at wits end with this stuff. Any ideas on what could be causing it?
One thought to mull: Looks like my battery is in bad shape. I just ran off battery power and it lasted maybe 20 minutes. Notably, the charge level dropped smoothly from 99% to about 58%, then in just a few minutes crashed to 6%, producing a low battery warning. Could this be a power inflow problem? If so, how can I diagnose it without pouring $$$ into a fix?
Thanks any and all! I've loved my Sager 8890, but this stuff is drivin' me nuts!
DesmondVT
"Character is what you are in the dark." --Dr. Emilio Lizardo
I've owned a Sager 8890 for, I guess, a couple years now. It's a 3.0 GHz with 1GB of RAM, and the gorgeous 16-inch screen. About a week and a half ago I started experiencing troubling, random lockups. The PC just freezes in place, without warning. I can see everything on the screen, but the keyboard is unresponsive, the mouse doesn't move. The only way out is to power off and power back up.
What's infuriating is that it all happens so fast that Windows has no clue. No dump logs, not a whisper of a hint in the Event Viewer modules. I'm watching this stuff like a hawk. I always run with MobMeter and my processor and drive temps are fine. I swept my system RAM with memtest86 and came up clean. I ran chkdsk and found nothing. I started working with TaskMan and Processor Explorer up so I could track process loads and memory usage, (remember, the screen stays up on freeze, so I can examine the output right at the moment of failure). But no trends there to indicates a runaway process freezing the system.
And yes, I've swept with multiple anti-virus, anti-spyware packages.
I'm flummoxed and am about to nuke the disk from orbit and reinstall. A thread here from SagerMeister seems to describe a very similar situation, but I'm not sure if he ever got it resolved.
http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...rd+lock+freeze
I'm at wits end with this stuff. Any ideas on what could be causing it?
One thought to mull: Looks like my battery is in bad shape. I just ran off battery power and it lasted maybe 20 minutes. Notably, the charge level dropped smoothly from 99% to about 58%, then in just a few minutes crashed to 6%, producing a low battery warning. Could this be a power inflow problem? If so, how can I diagnose it without pouring $$$ into a fix?
Thanks any and all! I've loved my Sager 8890, but this stuff is drivin' me nuts!
DesmondVT
"Character is what you are in the dark." --Dr. Emilio Lizardo
