New ENVY Laptop 100% Disk Freezing

lmono

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May 2, 2014
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I just recently purchased a HP ENVY Laptop,

Windows 8.1 64-bit
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
8GB

While playing games such as EvE online, Terraria, and Starbound my laptop will "freeze" up for .5 - 3 mins then self recovers. I started monitoring the task manager while playing games and basically it is showing Disk Usage at 100% and the game I am playing is "Not Responding". These should not be demanding games to play for this computer. I have verified that all of my drivers are updated. I worked with HP Support and went ahead and reset the laptop back. I have been battling this issue since the first time I played EvE on it. Laptop was purchased late Feb. 2014.
 

friedricezilla

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Jan 17, 2014
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i would download some male ware and antivirus scanners to see if there is something on the computer (dont recommend having more than one antivirus and/or male ware protection software at a time. can create major OS system instability issues ).
maleware bytes is pretty good, ccleaner pretty good at cleaning up junk in your registry.