My PC froze

[DavidR]

Then I wear them out and have to switch from mouse to keyboard and bloody wear that out instead

[Bellzemos]

Hello!

My PC (Windows 7, laptop) froze yesterday, just out of the blue. The PC was in idle state, except for Winamp (a song was playing). It froze on the 14th second of the song. The PC is in perfect shape, no malware, no anomalies. So, the PC froze and nothing helped, no Ctrl+Alt+Del, nothing. I had to reset it manually. There was no BSOD, so there is no minidump. Is there a way to see what caused this? Like a log file of some sort or anything?

Thank you!

...and it happened again today. My laptop simply froze, mouse and keyboard dead - all I could do was reboot it. No BSOD, no dump file. At the time of the freezing there was WinAmp running and playing music (the only thing that reminds me of last time) and I was writing something in Word. I found out something about a poossibility of WinAmp freezind and changed the output driver as suggested on some site. I'll see if that helps. It's about 3 months from the first freeze, do you think I should check anything else? (My laptop is clean, no viruses or malware of any kind.)

[ComputerRepairTech]

Hello!

My PC (Windows 7, laptop) froze yesterday, just out of the blue. The PC was in idle state, except for Winamp (a song was playing). It froze on the 14th second of the song. The PC is in perfect shape, no malware, no anomalies. So, the PC froze and nothing helped, no Ctrl+Alt+Del, nothing. I had to reset it manually. There was no BSOD, so there is no minidump. Is there a way to see what caused this? Like a log file of some sort or anything?

Thank you!

...and it happened again today. My laptop simply froze, mouse and keyboard dead - all I could do was reboot it. No BSOD, no dump file. At the time of the freezing there was WinAmp running and playing music (the only thing that reminds me of last time) and I was writing something in Word. I found out something about a poossibility of WinAmp freezind and changed the output driver as suggested on some site. I'll see if that helps. It's about 3 months from the first freeze, do you think I should check anything else? (My laptop is clean, no viruses or malware of any kind.)

Yes sometimes if you are using the digital output that can lock some systems up. 

[Bellzemos]

I'm not really sure that this is the cause but I changed the DirectSound Output device in WinAmp - from "Primary Sound Driver" to "Analog RME Babyface" (the external soundcard that I use). If my PC freezes yet again, I will post here and get myself into the research. Thanx.

[ComputerRepairTech]

I'm not really sure that this is the cause but I changed the DirectSound Output device in WinAmp - from "Primary Sound Driver" to "Analog RME Babyface" (the external soundcard that I use). If my PC freezes yet again, I will post here and get myself into the research. Thanx.

Alright let us know

[Bellzemos]

And today it happened again, after a long time. Same as before. First thing I'm going to do is update WinAmp, as I have an older version...

[bob3160]

And today it happened again, after a long time. Same as before. First thing I'm going to do is update WinAmp, as I have an older version...

Could be a buffer overflow