ok so I was using it fine for awhile with no freeze until BAM! freeze. and after that one freeze it now has kept freezing every 30 minutes to 2 hours. this time no weird sound. it can't be the laptop because I tried to eject the DVD drive to see if something is wrong with the laptop and the dvd opens up. I plugged in my USB and it lights up as it always does. it could most likely be my windows 7 Post Merge: [time]1281516696[/time] have I really defeated romulation by posting an unanswerable question?