This would seem like a hardware/device failure. If you get any information
about the system freeze from Event Viewer, that *might* be illuminative, but
it's kind of hard to figure these out without looking at a kernel minidump
or that sort of thing.
You mention specifically that this happens during "presentations", which
thus makes the video card lightly suspect.
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> Marco Auday wrote:
>> This has happened several times since I upgraded the OS to Windows 7
>> Ultimate. Sometimes Windows 7 will freeze as soon as soon as the
>> presentation starts, sometimes it happens when the presentation is
>> playing
>> but the data stream is still downloading, and other times when the
>> presentation is playing for several minutes.
>>
>> By freezing I mean: the presentation stops and freezes, the mouse pointer
>> no
>> longer moves on the screen, the keyboard does not respond to any input (I
>> cannot go back to the desktop). The only option I have is to shutdown or
>> re-start my computer by pressing the power on/off button on the computer
>> itself.
>>
>> I always watch the Channel 9 presentations in full-screen mode by
>> clicking
>> the icon on the lower right corner of the player.
>>
>> The computer where this happens has the following setup:
>>
>> Processor Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz with 12 Gbytes RAM
>> Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
>> DirectX 11
>> Windows Media Player v.12.0.7600.16415
>> Internet Explorer v.8.0.7600.16385
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