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[KibosJ]

Yvesoft, on 18 June 2012 - 10:46, said:

I tried enabling/disabling every possible power related settings on the BIOS and it didn't help. I would get extremely happy for a couple of hours but eventually the freezing nightmare would come back to haunt me.

Strange, after disabling them I haven't had a single freeze for nearly 3/4 days now.

[Kenny Kanashimi Chu]

I heaven't had problems yet. But keep in mind that windows 8 release preview still buggy.
I would wait for the actual release then upgrade to it. I don't think the update repo for windows 8 release preview will stay up long.

[+nesl247]

The issue seems to have increased a lot today. I'm using IE not Chrome. It's frozen with and without C3/C6 and EIST disabled. Issue has also ramped up a lot today on my MacBook Pro.

[amnesia-]

nesl247, on 19 June 2012 - 00:23, said:

The issue seems to have increased a lot today. I'm using IE not Chrome. It's frozen with and without C3/C6 and EIST disabled. Issue has also ramped up a lot today on my MacBook Pro.

Same here. Had to hard reset 8 times in a row, 2-15 minutes apart. This is just ridiculous.

[Xerax]

Getting this too, but only sometimes (less than once a week).

[KibosJ]

nesl247, on 19 June 2012 - 00:23, said:

The issue seems to have increased a lot today. I'm using IE not Chrome. It's frozen with and without C3/C6 and EIST disabled. Issue has also ramped up a lot today on my MacBook Pro.

The only other thing I have disabled in BIOS is HPET.

With HPET, EIST and C3/C6 states all disabled I haven't had a single freeze in 4 days now.

With Just HPET disabled the machine freezes
With Just C3/C6 disabled the machine freezes
With Just EIST disabled the machine freezes

With all 3 disabled I have yet to have a freeze.

ALSO I never did have any freeze with Internet Explorer. Maybe you have another issue

[timmy86]

This issue seems to be widespread - has happened to me as well. Thought it was Chrome... stopped using Chrome and then it happened once in Firefox. Still going now since then...

I have noticed that the underside of my notebook is hotter and gets hotter more often, whether or not that's related im not sure.

it's all very weird and as much as I love some of the new features, I want to go back to W7 if this doesn't get fixed soon. Is MS aware of the bug?

[fobban]

I got so tired of these freezes that I reinstalled Windows 7. I didn't have a single freeze with the Consumer Preview but lots with the Release Preview.

[NeoandGeo]

I thought my issue had to do with Nvidia drivers, but I get the crash even without any installed, and I still get the IE10 crash immediately upon opening after some time using the system.

Does anyone with a P67 chipset and an Nvidia card have absolutely no problems? If so what chipset drivers are you using?

[Er1kS]

Today when I was on my work I´ve read about a workaround that someone hinted about on another forum (can't remember which now), check it out here: http://rudiv.se/Blog...wser-freeze-fix

[+nesl247]

Er1kS, on 19 June 2012 - 18:51, said:

Today when I was on my work I´ve read about a workaround that someone hinted about on another forum (can't remember which now), check it out here: http://rudiv.se/Blog...wser-freeze-fix

I'll try that next. Right before I had found that fix yesterday, someone had mentioned about disabling the pagefile. Both my machines have 8-16GB ram, so I am trying it out. So far no crash in about 7 hours. We'll see how it goes.

[NeoandGeo]

I will try this fix when I get home.

I have a dual boot machine (7/8) on the same HDD, will enabling VT in BIOS affect my Windows 7 install at all?

[NeoandGeo]

For some reason I can't edit my last post.

The Hypervisor method cleared up my freezing/lockups, but IE still reverts back to crashing upon startup after I use it for a bit, and sometimes starts right off the bat with a clean boot.

Bottom line, is it's usable now for testing and to try out some games.

[+nesl247]

Trying the Hyper-V workaround now as well. Hopefully it works out.

Not sure why you are having IE crash. I use it as the only browser without issues.

[NeoandGeo]

I think the IE thing may be a whole other issue. It's persisted through 5 reinstalls now with 3 different burned media from 3 separate downloads. No telling what it could be.