macbook pro freezes and sound loops

Hello everyone,
My mbp, which I bought last summer, has been having freezing issues in Windows. These freezes seem to happen at random, but predominantly when I am playing games. The screen would stop where it froze (everything would be still), and the sound would continuously loop. The only way out of this problem is to hold down the power button to force the mbp to turn off. When I turn the computer back on, the mbp will freeze in the windows loading screen (when the thing is moving back and forth inside the bar). It usually takes a couple tries to get my computer to start back up again without freezing in the process. However, it is not only while playing games that I encounter this freezing problem, sometimes, the computer freezes while I am playing music or even while browsing the internet.
Any help would be very much appreciated,
Aaron

Posted on Jul 1, 2008 10:32 AM

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Jul 2, 2008 6:30 AM in response to webeatmartinez

Do the freezes occur when running under OSX, Aaron, or just under Windows?

How are you running Windows? with Bootcamp? Parallels? Something else?

Which version of Windows are you using? What version of OSX is installed?

have you installed any third party RAM? if so, what brand?

Do you have plenty of space on the drive?

Does the problem occur under both battery and power adaptor?

Have you checked the integrity of the directories using an appropriate utility?

It is near impossible to even begin to suggest possibilities unless you provide some more information.

Cheers

Rod

Jul 2, 2008 8:26 AM in response to Rod Hagen

Thanks for the input guys,
Most of the time the freezes happen when I am playing games, but it also happens when I am doing things totally unrelated to games, for example, listening to music. I don't use osx that much, but it has never crashed when I have been on it. I run Windows XP Professional with bootcamp 1.4. OSX is tiger. I have only used up about a half of my drive. The problem occurs with or without the power adaptor. How do I check the integrity of the directories and what are they?
Thank you very much for the help, Sig and Rod,
Aaron

Jul 2, 2008 10:28 PM in response to webeatmartinez

Hi Aaron,

It sounds as if it is probably a Windows specific issue (about which I'm afraid I can't offer much help), but it is a little difficult to tell given that you don't use OSX much (it may be that you simply haven't run into it in OSX even though some sort of underlying problem is there). A RAM problem could produce such symptoms, for example.

My suggestion would be to run Apple Hardware Test (disconnect all peripherals except the power supply, boot up from your Mac OS X Install Disc 1 that came with your computer while holding down the "D" key) to be doubly sure.

Cheers

Rod

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