HP 4540S sudden freezes, hang ups etc

Hello, i have quite a serious problem, and to be honest i can't really tell which would be the cause. My laptop keeps having immense lag or hang ups short time after i boot up the windows. The issue escalated proggresively , i mean from the point it could barely run a game ( Counter Strike Global Offensive) to be more exact , the hdd disk was 100% active like it was intensively used. Then it went to the point when the disk led was completly lit when in idle. And at the final stage it just couldn't boot up my windows again.
At first i suspected that is the hard disk and i replaced it . After a short time , couple of minutes, after i finished installing windows on my new hard disk, same symptoms showed up. Windows becomes unresponding, no matter if its during a process or in idle, the disk light is completly on. This lasts for like 2 minutes then it works normally for like 30 secs or 1 minute at most then it hangs up again. I did various checks, with the HP utility tool , the short and the long test , no hdd errors could be found ( it was quite expected given the fact this disk was brand new). I have no idea where the problem might come from . I don't think it's the motherboard controller( or at least i hope so, even the problem looks like it is a bad controller) .
What is interesting that i managed to update the bios to it's last version and the symptoms changed a bit. When the laptop hangs up the hdd disk is no longer lit, but the freeze is quite more aggresive. By aggresive i mean the explorer is completly unresponsive, the waiting time for things to come back to normal is higher, like 4-5 minutes, and the time is normally operating is somewhere around 10-20 seconds, half a minute if i'm lucky .
Laptop : HP ProBook 4540S
OS : Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium
Current Bios: F.60 A 15 Jan 2015
Previous Bios: F.50 REV A 8 Aug 2014
i can provide hard drives models too , the old and the new one if needed but i don't think it would be necessary.
What i've tried: Using the HP tool to diagnose memory and hard drive( both short and long DSM tests)
all tests where successfully passed
Using the Laptop on battery only or with battery removed . The symptomes were exactly the same so i don't think it's a power source issue
The laptop hasn't been dropped, nor opened before, didn't spit any kind of liquid on it. etc etc.
Warranty has expired
Fun fact is that i could make my old hard drive functional again after formatting on a different computer and using on it. So it's clearly not the disk, but something is, and i really hope you guys can help me out. Any idea what might cause this?

Hello StriickeN,
I understand you’re stating your computer freezes periodically, is that correct? I will be happy to help you with this issue.
Can you please provide the full make and model of the computer you have, if you are unsure where to locate that information have a look at this link.
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Message Edited by JimmyinCT2 on 02-05-2008 08:37 PM

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"The biggest problem right now is that our
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a) suddenly, CPU goes up to 50% and stays there (looks like JRockit is
spinning/busy looping on the one "cpu")
b) while spinning at 50% CPU, the heap keeps growing until it hits max
c) the application and JRockit stops responding (but it does not crash)
d) There is no information on stdout or stderr. Also no information in
weblogic.log
The setup is:
* BEA WebLogic 5.1
* SuSE Linux 9.0 (*not* enterprise linux)
* Kernel: 2.4.21_166, SMP 4G
* JRockit v26.4.0.63 (JDK 1.4.2_11)
* XEON 3GHz with HT
* JAVA_OPTIONS="-jrockit -Xms512m -Xmx512m
-Djrockit.ctrlbreak.enableforce_crash=true"
Has anyone else experienced this or things like it? I've found many
issues about JRockit crashes (which actually gives some information to
work with), but our process is not crashing. It just freezes/hangs and
uses a lot of CPU.

We have exactly the same problem on our Windows servers, also Dual core Xeon, running Windows Server 2003 SP 1, with 2Gb physical RAM. We have two Windows servers behind Cisco load balancers.
When we get this problem, CPU and memory usage seems normal. The Throughput graph in Monitoring -> Performance flat lines at zero, the Queue length goes up by the second and the Garbage collection graph flat lines at whatever value it was at when the service appeared to hang.
The Java memory settings are: -Xms512m -Xmx1024m
Can anyone help, please? I have had to manually restart the services on both servers about 10 times so far this morning! This is unusual, but we do have an unsually heavy load this morning.
Many thanks

P45 Neo3-FR Freezing/lock ups in Windows

Specs:
P45 Neo3-FR using 1.3 BIOS
E8400 w/ Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme
2x1GB GSkill 1066Mhz RAM
EVGA 8800GT 512MB
Cosair HX520W PSU
Antec Nine Hundred case
2x SATA HDD
1x DVDRW
Windows XP SP3
I'm having random freezing/lock ups in Windows. It can happen anywhere between 1 minute to 5+ hours. It's completely random, doesn't matter what I'm doing.
I have the latest chipset and nVidia drivers.
Memtest passes 8+ hours
Orthos passes 3+ hours
I've cleared the CMOS and loaded optimized defaults
I've tried both IDE and AHCI
What happens is everything just freezes, I can't move the mouse and can't ctrl-alt-del.
Anyone have any ideas?
Update: I switched to BIOS 1.2 and so far everything seems OK, though I lost the option to change the command rate on the RAM. I'll post back in a couple of days or if it happens to lock up again.

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2x1GB GSkill 1066Mhz RAM
Reduce memory clock speed to 800 MHz in BIOS, set Memory voltage to 1.9-1.95V and retest.

Photoshop CC and Photoshop 6 Freezing/Hanging

Ok so I have read many threads on this topic and none have been an answer to my problem.
This happens on MacPro with 2 x 2.4Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 24GB of 1066 MHZ DDR3 Ram and an 512Gig SSD, freshly formatted and Photoshop CC loaded and running without any other apps. I also use a Wacom Intuos 5 touch M with driver 6.3.6w3. I also have 3 x iMac 27" top current spec SSD and 32Gig Ram and wacom tablets, Intuos 3 and 4.
This problem occurs normally when selecting a brush to work on a layer mask (size of brush not relevant), once the freeze occurs, the cursor can still be moved around however a brush mark isn't registered. To exit this freezed state it is necessary to click on another application (preferably the finder) and return to photoshop in order to snap it back in to action. Sometimes this problem has to be repeated 2 or 3 times. It doesn't appear to make any difference what size the image is. Often if I open up a flat jpg, grab the clone stamp tool and start to work, there are no marks registered. Once the freeze/hang is exited often the previous brush marks appear altogether. This seems to happen all too regularly, maybe every 15 mins or so, but never consistently spaced out
I have tried all of the things below to solve it:-
1. No 3rd party plug ins running.
2. Ample scratch disk space on second internal Sata drive (500Gb)
3. GPU settings changed to Basic
4. I don't have a third button on my pen to turn off
5. Wiped and re-installed OS X 10.8.4, reinstalled photoshop
6. Made history states greater and less
7. Turned Autosave off and save in background
8. Regenerated new Preferences
I have looked into Activity viewer when this happens and nothing seems obviously wrong. Please help as I thought is was a bug in CS6 so upgrading to CC was looking very attractive until the same problem happens here too.
HELP! HELP! HELP!

Curt, I have a ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB in the Mac Pro, the iMac have NVIDIA GeForce GTS 680MX 2048Mb.
Why would it happen on all of these machines though if they have different video cards?
Very Puzzled!

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