Laptop Freezes

Hi, I have noticed that for the past month or so, whenever I leave my laptop on overnight, I meet it frozen the next morning. I suspect that this is an update or driver issue, as the machine runs fine otherwise, and it only recently started. The laptop is about 2 years old.

What checks can I perform to find this problem?

Here is a speccy link for my machine;
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/yYaVc6JLldKpSkbBFOzlnxE

 

How are your power options set? Is it going to sleep?
What do you mean by 'frozen'?

 

Hi Replicator, thanks for the quick reply
not going to sleep.
frozen - screen on with last image on screen - trying to move mouse, type on keyboard, nothing works.
Have to hard reset by pressing power button for 20 secs.

 

If its only a recent occurrence, then perhaps yes, it may be related to a recent OS update, driver install or other 3rd party software install.
Does it occur under normal operation during the day when your using the device, or only after being left on overnight and then you come back to it?
You have done Malware scans no doubt?

 

Hi, I think maybe OS updates, I can't recall installing any recent new software. I have Malwarebytes Premium running, doing daily scans at the least, and it has no detections.

So far, it has not happened during the day. And not always during overnight, for instance, I left the machine running last night and it is still running fine.

Thanks again Replicator

 

last night i also noticed that my wifi dropped off but the machine did not freeze, but restarting the laptop fixed it. This was new. Running fine since then. Scans still clean.

 

You should be ok, if your keen you could try rolling back the update and see if that helps.
From my experience, I have found that waiting for the next update rather than rolling back usually fixes any bugs from previous!

 

Thanks, I think I will do that. Restarting every now and then isn't such a big deal.