Thread: Windows 8 hangs at times when restarting

Hi,

apologies, sometimes real world events take precedent. I see there are only Win 7 drivers for your machine. Have you tried installing them as well as making sure the bios is the latest version too. Also if you do experience another hang, check the Event viewer and see if anything reported gives a clue as to whats happening.

Thanks Kemical for your reply. All the drivers on this Laptop are up to date and the latest Bios driver that Toshiba gives are on this machine. If there are Windows 8 Drivers, my Driver update program doesn't show it.

This is a touch and go thing for sure, relating to the hanging thing. I mean by that, that last evening I rebooted again and no problems. But that means little because it'll behave itself accordingly and then flip right off the rails.

Regarding the drivers and Bios drivers, I can only get what Toshiba gives me for the hardware on this thing. I took it that Windows 8 would be anything extra in there that it needed.

Let's see what happens. Appreciate your help Kemical.

Try running the system file checker. Right click cmd prompt and click run as admin or right click in the bottom left hand corner and use that menu to run an admin cmd prompt.
Type:

sfc /scannow

Press enter and await results. Hopefully it will find and cure any corruption.

I did the sfc/scannow a couple days back. Everything showed good. No problems. I'll give you an A-Plus for trying Kemical. If there's anything else you've got up your sleeve, hurl it over this way. :-)

Hmm...ok, what about USB devices and/or third party apps? Do you have any and if so.... What?

As to the USB - I have a USB hub with my mouse device plugged into that and an A Drive. As to third party applications - not quite sure what you mean by that. Please clarify.

Hi,

could you check the event viewer and see if anything relates to your hub/A drive as I would regard this as a possible source of the issue but without further investigation it's impossible to say for sure..

Third party apps relate to software like photo editing suites or similar..

I will do that Kemical, but not right now. I have to return to my employment but will get at your suggestion this evening. I'll let you know. Thanks!