I just recently bought an ASUS computer from BEST BUY. Ever since I bought it, it has froze on me at least 4 time a week. Finding this disturbing, I decided that maybe it was a driver or port conflict. I got to looking at the device manager and found that several of the listed devices are duplicated several times. For instance, under Processors, it has “Intel(R)Core(TM)i7-3770 CPUtest6513316.40 GHz” listed 8 times, “ACPI Fan” is listed 4 times, “ATA Channel 0” is listed 3 times, “ATA Channel 1” is listed 3 times.
Is this normal. I have a hunch that this may be the cause of my new computer freezing all the time.
Large Number Of Duplicate Devices Showing In Device Manager
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The motherboard has six SATA ports on it, which is why Device manager lists a total of six ATA channels. It also has four fan speed monitors, hence the four ACPI fans.
All of this is normal. The instability is being caused by something else; most likely bad RAM. Return it while you still can.
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