- Apr 25, 2014
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Hello,
I have an Asus X202E laptop that I've had for almost a year. It came with Windows 8.0 and I noticed maybe a few months into using it that it will randomly freeze and I can only do a hard reboot. There is a slightly larger probability that it will freeze within 10 minutes of it booting up but otherwise it could be an hour into using it or 5 minutes and it will completely freeze. It never unfreezes after it sits for a while either. It can happen several times a day or sometimes it won't happen for several weeks. There is nothing I'm doing that seems to be consistent to connect a pattern to it.
I read that the stock hard drives were pretty poor and prone to failure so I upgraded to a Samsung SSD. I cloned the drive and noticed I had the same problem. I read that sometimes the cloning process can be problematic when I was googling this issue.
I then upgraded to Windows 8.1 which didn't change anything. I did a repair on the install and also that did not fix it. I even did a complete reinstall, formatting the hard drive which also did not fix it. I'm thinking it could be a driver thing now but I have no idea how to troubleshoot that.
If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it. I do research on my computer and if I'm taking data and it freezes that is bad! I know this is a cheap laptop but I'd rather not buy a new one right now being as I am broke.
Thanks!!
I have an Asus X202E laptop that I've had for almost a year. It came with Windows 8.0 and I noticed maybe a few months into using it that it will randomly freeze and I can only do a hard reboot. There is a slightly larger probability that it will freeze within 10 minutes of it booting up but otherwise it could be an hour into using it or 5 minutes and it will completely freeze. It never unfreezes after it sits for a while either. It can happen several times a day or sometimes it won't happen for several weeks. There is nothing I'm doing that seems to be consistent to connect a pattern to it.
I read that the stock hard drives were pretty poor and prone to failure so I upgraded to a Samsung SSD. I cloned the drive and noticed I had the same problem. I read that sometimes the cloning process can be problematic when I was googling this issue.
I then upgraded to Windows 8.1 which didn't change anything. I did a repair on the install and also that did not fix it. I even did a complete reinstall, formatting the hard drive which also did not fix it. I'm thinking it could be a driver thing now but I have no idea how to troubleshoot that.
If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it. I do research on my computer and if I'm taking data and it freezes that is bad! I know this is a cheap laptop but I'd rather not buy a new one right now being as I am broke.
Thanks!!
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