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Technology => Technophiliacs & Technophiles => Topic started by: Suicidal Fish on November 21, 2014, 10:50:11 am

Title: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: Suicidal Fish on November 21, 2014, 10:50:11 am
I load my laptop up everything is ok then the curser freezes.

Any Ideas?
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: -SpectraL on November 21, 2014, 11:44:50 am

Uninstall all your drivers and reinstall them.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: zok jr. on November 21, 2014, 03:43:28 pm
Test your hard drive 9/10 chance it's failing. Backup your data now if you haven't already.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: starvingniglet on November 21, 2014, 04:12:11 pm
Your cursor freezes out of fear.

Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: RustyShackleford on November 22, 2014, 01:34:57 am
Reinstall the OS
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: constantinople on November 22, 2014, 01:38:07 am
"curser" sounds like what cockney kids would call wands in the Harry Potter universe.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: Suicidal Fish on November 22, 2014, 08:33:14 am

Uninstall all your drivers and reinstall them.

How do I do that without logging in?

I literally get 30 secs after everything has come on
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: mmmmmmmQuestions on November 22, 2014, 08:34:39 am

Uninstall all your drivers and reinstall them.

How do I do that without logging in?

I literally get 30 secs after everything has come on


be faster
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: -SpectraL on November 22, 2014, 10:15:30 am

Safe mode?
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: god on November 22, 2014, 01:23:17 pm
Does the keyboard work? Use the keyboard to login. It might start loading the drivers and allow it to start working, if not you should reinstall using the device manager or whatever in Windows. I'm in linux mindin my own data, smokin on that Arnold Schwarzenegger.  All day, all night, half pipe. Got that tech for technical difficulties.


If the keyboard is scared as well, you can try to start in safemode as stated above. Press f8 before the windows logo on boot, and select safe mode with command prompt and tell me how far you can get. (You will still have to login)

[I am young money Carter's IT]
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: zok jr. on November 22, 2014, 06:49:52 pm
These suggestions are all retarded your drivers don't just randomly go bad.

What kind of computer is it desktop/laptop and what is the brand? Often times there are built in diagnostic tools which i guarantee will tell you your hard disk is taking a shit. I do this for a living trust me.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: SBTlauien on November 22, 2014, 08:22:25 pm
Sounds like a hardware issue to me.

Do what Spec said and see it you can navigate around using the keyboard.

The 30 seconds could be some electrical thing like a small battery giving all of it's power to allow it to work.  But it could be other things as well.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: RustyShackleford on November 23, 2014, 12:51:52 pm
It sounds like its fucked with viruses. Every time I've seen a failing / failed drive the computer never starts up fine and prompts you to do checkdisk.

- Back everything up
- Reinstall either with a cd or the recovery partition
- If its still fucked then go from there
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: mmmmmmmQuestions on November 23, 2014, 04:24:05 pm
this is why I don't use computers
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: god on November 23, 2014, 06:50:48 pm
Lawl almost all of these post are retarded.

Drivers can go bad as a result of an infection. I can almost guarantee if he booted a live CD right now everything would work hence not a hardware malfunction.  Trust me I'm studying double major in EE and CSE   8======>
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: -SpectraL on November 23, 2014, 07:09:06 pm

As zok jr. and SBTlauien pointed out, bad sectors on the hard drive could very well cause the mouse pointer to freeze. That's probably exactly what's causing it.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: zok jr. on November 23, 2014, 09:13:44 pm
Lawl almost all of these post are retarded.

Drivers can go bad as a result of an infection. I can almost guarantee if he booted a live CD right now everything would work hence not a hardware malfunction.  Trust me I'm studying double major in EE and CSE   8======>

You need to study more if he booted from a live cd he wouldn't be using the hard disk and that's why it would be working correctly. You may be taking your 101 computer classes but i do this in the real world every day it's my job. I would bet everything i own ink a failing hard disk.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: Goatwhore on November 24, 2014, 12:45:31 am
zok jr. is retarded, it's most likely a bad video driver. Install debian.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: god on November 24, 2014, 12:53:37 am
I'm not even  going to begin to try to explain how retarded you are.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: -SpectraL on November 24, 2014, 04:04:33 am

Just because he's retarded doesn't mean he isn't right.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: god on November 24, 2014, 02:38:42 pm
retarded = wrong
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: -SpectraL on November 24, 2014, 03:16:15 pm
retarded = wrong

Was Forrest Gump wrong? No. So, there.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: zok jr. on November 24, 2014, 03:22:02 pm
:Facepalm:

Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: god on November 24, 2014, 03:30:54 pm
These nigga's don't get it?


Wrong way down a one way.

I don't ever play, but I'm in the game.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: General Fault on November 24, 2014, 04:56:52 pm
Quick way to make sure it is or isn't an OS issue would be to download and burn a Live CD of some Linux distro. Ubuntu is easy. Boot from that. If it still locks up, it's hardware.

Sounds like a hardware issue, chip locking up or shutting down due to thermal problem. This would be the CPU, GPU or North Bridge. Start with the CPU. Take off the chip cooler, clean the thermal compound off with isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs. Apply some new quality thermal compound. A little dab on the chip is what I usually use, then dab it around with my fingertip until it's a thin even layer. Less is more in this case. The purpose is to fill any tiny voids between the metal surfaces. Too much and it forms an insulator. Some companies put on so much it looks like a birthday cake exploded in there. Test it out. If that didn't solve it, replace thermal compound on the other components that have coolers.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: RustyShackleford on November 25, 2014, 12:19:49 am
Quick way to make sure it is or isn't an OS issue would be to download and burn a Live CD of some Linux distro. Ubuntu is easy. Boot from that. If it still locks up, it's hardware.

Sounds like a hardware issue, chip locking up or shutting down due to thermal problem. This would be the CPU, GPU or North Bridge. Start with the CPU. Take off the chip cooler, clean the thermal compound off with isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs. Apply some new quality thermal compound. A little dab on the chip is what I usually use, then dab it around with my fingertip until it's a thin even layer. Less is more in this case. The purpose is to fill any tiny voids between the metal surfaces. Too much and it forms an insulator. Some companies put on so much it looks like a birthday cake exploded in there. Test it out. If that didn't solve it, replace thermal compound on the other components that have coolers.
>Disassembling the computer before trying to reinstall the OS.
I'm not saying anyone is wrong about the possibility of hardware failure, but your jumping the gun.
Also as was stated a live cd won't help rule out hdd failure.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: zok jr. on November 25, 2014, 03:34:47 pm
Quick way to make sure it is or isn't an OS issue would be to download and burn a Live CD of some Linux distro. Ubuntu is easy. Boot from that. If it still locks up, it's hardware.

Sounds like a hardware issue, chip locking up or shutting down due to thermal problem. This would be the CPU, GPU or North Bridge. Start with the CPU. Take off the chip cooler, clean the thermal compound off with isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs. Apply some new quality thermal compound. A little dab on the chip is what I usually use, then dab it around with my fingertip until it's a thin even layer. Less is more in this case. The purpose is to fill any tiny voids between the metal surfaces. Too much and it forms an insulator. Some companies put on so much it looks like a birthday cake exploded in there. Test it out. If that didn't solve it, replace thermal compound on the other components that have coolers.

No because booting from a live cd bypasses the hard disk which it most likely is.

If the problem were overheating, thermal protection would kick in and the computer would simply shut off unless it runs a bios from the 1980s.
Title: Re: My Curser Freezes After About 2 Mins
Post by: zok jr. on November 25, 2014, 03:37:16 pm
Also north/south bridge and integrated graphics chip use a thermal shim not grease if anything at all.