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    Hey all,

    SO my computer is all fubar. Basically whenever it is left for a period of time it freezes up. The mouse will wake up and work fine but nothing responds to it.

    The only way to fix it is a hard restart via the power button. Most time it boots up fine but sometimes it says computer is unable to restart and runs a system restore which eventually rectifies the problem and it starts up.

    The computer is nothing special and only used for surfing and email. One thing is that its a Vista machine. I know Vista is no longer supporting this and am considering upgrading but want to know if doing this will actually fix my problem or is there is something else in the background that is wrong?


    I am sure someone will ask so here are the specs:

    Intel Core 2 Quad CPU 2.33Ghz
    4 GB Ram
    1 TB Drive
    ATI Radeon HD3450

    I am not sure I can upgrade to W10 or not based on these specs?

    Any suggestions?

    TIA

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    Sounds like it's hibernating and not waking up?

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    I have a similar issue on my garage laptop. I suspect the hard drive is dying, and it's stalling out trying to read.
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    All of that could have been avoided by simply installing unchecky...
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    Originally posted by G-ZUS
    Sounds like it's hibernating and not waking up?
    Maybe? The screen is always on? Way to fix or confirm this?

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    Originally posted by OU812


    Maybe? The screen is always on? Way to fix or confirm this?
    Get the computer to where you can use it and look at your windows power settings and don't let it sleep/hibernate.

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    Originally posted by LilDrunkenSmurf
    I suspect the hard drive is dying, and it's stalling out trying to read.
    This is most likely the issue.

    If necessary, back up your data, then run hard drive diagnostics:

    http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=3

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    Originally posted by Maxx Mazda
    All of that could have been avoided by simply installing unchecky...

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    The event log will likely have some clues.

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    Those issues could be hardware or software - hard to know without further testing.

    W10 - if you are able to do a CLEAN install where everything is wiped and you start fresh, it can actually work better on older machines than Vista. I dont recommend in-place upgrading.

    If the problem still happens, you've eliminated the software/opertaing system side of things.
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    Originally posted by Maxx Mazda
    All of that could have been avoided by simply installing unchecky...
    fuck, almost had coffee on my netbook .....

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    I'd recommend picking up an SSD and installing Win 10 on it, I'm running it with no issues on a PC with similar specs. This way you can use the 1TB drive as a second storage drive IF it turns out that it's not failing.

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    Oh one more thing, if the drive is a Western Digital GREEN or BLUE series .....esp of that age .... discard it immediately and get an SSD like mentioned above.

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    Originally posted by revelations
    W10 - if you are able to do a CLEAN install where everything is wiped and you start fresh, it can actually work better on older machines than Vista. I dont recommend in-place upgrading.
    I find Radeon 3000 or older series driver to be quite buggy on W10. I think AMD already disowned it to the catalyst driver set and just uses the default Windows driver.

    Although that's when W10 debut, they may have fixed it by now.
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    Given the high likelihood that the hard drive is failing, then don't try any fix if you have data to be backed up. Reason being, any type of fix that you try could put the drive over the edge and make the data unrecoverable.

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    #1 Back up any important data immediately. Then:

    If you do end up thinking it's the HDD, just grab one of these for next to nothing:

    http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX55511

    Run the free Samsung drive clone software and it will be like nothing ever changed, except your PC will be enormously faster. I swapped my work PC over to a SSD in about 10 minutes including install and clone.

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    Originally posted by Maxx Mazda
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    Oh one more thing, here is a simple (no ads) portable tool (does not install into Windows) that will tell you your drives mechanical/electrical status and whether or not its going out.

    Run the tool and post up the results here.

    https://osdn.net/frs/redir.php?m=pum...kInfo7_0_5.zip

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    Originally posted by Mitsu3000gt
    #1 Back up any important data immediately. Then:

    If you do end up thinking it's the HDD, just grab one of these for next to nothing:

    http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX55511

    Run the free Samsung drive clone software and it will be like nothing ever changed, except your PC will be enormously faster. I swapped my work PC over to a SSD in about 10 minutes including install and clone.
    Do you know if that drive clone software will clone to a smaller capacity drive?

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    Originally posted by Seth1968


    Do you know if that drive clone software will clone to a smaller capacity drive?
    Yes, provided the used space on the existing HDD is less than the replacement SSD. You can even customize what gets transferred over if you need to reduce the size of the source drive, the software is pretty clever.

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