Far too often I am surfing along with Firefox, creating things in Gimp, writing in Open Office, trying to get into FF14:ARR, or Star Wars: The Old Republic and my mouse stops moving, my keyboard stops accepting commands, my computer fans whirls away but my screen is frozen. Once I left it that way for one hour to see if it would unfreeze, it never did. Unusually my mouse will move again, but nothing will respond to the mouse clicks and my computer remains clueless to the commands I try to give it through my keyboard. Sometimes I am able to turn it off by holding the power button, more frequently I have to switch off using the power supply at the back of the computer.
I generally have at least two things open at any time: Yahoo IM and firefox, or a game, or gimp, etc... Sometimes I just have one program open (other than malwarebytes, avast, nvidia settings, and windows updater, which are always running while my computer is on).
My computer is self-built. Intel Core i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz Mem 8GB 64-bit windows 7 home premium NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
I generally have at least two things open at any time: Yahoo IM and firefox, or a game, or gimp, etc... Sometimes I just have one program open (other than malwarebytes, avast, nvidia settings, and windows updater, which are always running while my computer is on).
My computer is self-built. Intel Core i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz Mem 8GB 64-bit windows 7 home premium NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460